Bjorn Lomberg on “green” cars’ Dirty Little Secret:

While electric-car owners may cruise around feeling virtuous, they still recharge using electricity overwhelmingly produced with fossil fuels. Thus, the life-cycle analysis shows that for every mile driven, the average electric car indirectly emits about six ounces of carbon-dioxide. This is still a lot better than a similar-size conventional car, which emits about 12 ounces per mile. But remember, the production of the electric car has already resulted in sizeable emissions–the equivalent of 80,000 miles of travel in the vehicle. So unless the electric car is driven a lot, it will never get ahead environmentally..

Hang your head, Ms. Green:

If a typical electric car is driven 50,000 miles over its lifetime, the huge initial emissions from its manufacture means the car will actually have put more carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere than a similar-size gasoline-powered car driven the same number of miles…

Nope, not a joke:

America’s top military officer in charge of monitoring hostile actions by North Korea, escalating tensions between China and Japan, and a spike in computer attacks traced to China provides an unexpected answer when asked what is the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region: climate change.

Abandon your radar stations! Throw down your weapons! Strap on your snorkels! Run for the hills!

“You have the real potential here in the not-too-distant future of nations displaced by rising sea level…”

(*facepalm*)

Ezra Levant and Jerry Agar on the biggest Canadian scandal since the pocketed communion wafer: Assaquiddick.

Mick Hartley:

So, University College London, founded early in the 19th century as England’s first secular university, an enlightenment alternative to the strict religious orthodoxies of Oxford and Cambridge, dedicated to admitting students regardless of their religion and to admitting women on equal terms with men, is, in 2013, hosting meetings where gender segregation is enforced…”

The occasion was a debate called “Islam or Atheism: Which Makes More Sense?”
Attendee Chris Moos:

“Not only did (the organisers) enforce gender segregation, but five security guards of the organiser intimidated and attempted to physically remove audience members who refused to comply, falsely claiming that these attendees had been disruptive…”

Much more at both links.

Recently thousands of Americans, including students from across the country who have been planning for months and raising their own money to pay for trips to Washington to tour the White House, have been left disappointed by the cancellation of the tours. The tours cost the federal government an estimated $2 million per year, and there’s just not enough money, says the spendiest-ever White House, because of the limitations imposed by federal government sequestration and budget cuts.
There’s more than enough money for other, more important things, though. President Barack Obama recently jetted off to play golf with Tiger Woods at a reported cost of $1 million. A state dinner at the White House in 2010, which included a performance by Beyonce in “a massive tent adorned with…hanging chandeliers” likewise cost nearly $1 million dollars. The Obamas’ annual health-care costs come to about $7 million, and they spend over $20 million annually on vacations.
Then there are the miscellaneous expenses. The federal government spends $2 billion – one thousand times the annual cost of the cancelled White House tours – in San Diego county alone, for such things as —

A…matching federal grant for interpretive dance called “Trolley Dances.”…$600,000 for “the promotion of physical activity in churchgoing Latinas.”… $550,000 for UCSD research into “safer sex intervention for male clients of female sex workers in Tijuana.”

Gotta close the White House to the public, though.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney:

“It is extremely unfortunate that we have a situation like the sequester that compels the kinds of tradeoffs and decisions that this represents.“