Energy and “the relentless application of logic”;

In the most reader-friendly and engaging way possible, Bryce provides the reader with data — the inescapable, remorseless facts about our current use of energy and our future energy needs. For instance, he points out that a single coal mine in western Kentucky – the 35th largest in America — produces the equivalent of 75 percent of all the raw energy produced by every wind turbine and solar panel and solar cell in the country on a daily basis.

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Find a snake pit of murderous anti-Semites.

Fenton Communications, which has offices in Washington, D.C., New York, and San Francisco, signed two contracts last year with Qatar to develop “a communications action plan for an 18-month campaign” aimed at delegitimizing Israel and generating international support for the Hamas-run Gaza strip, documents filed with the Department of Justice show. The campaign, known as the “Al Fakhoora Project,” has a very visible Web presence that boasts of rallying 10,000 activists “against the blockade on Gaza.”
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Testimony one of the commandos released later described how the “activists” shot this commanding officer in the leg and stabbed him in the stomach before tossing him off the deck. Other “activists” on the lower deck then dragged the officer inside, taking a knife to expand the wound in his stomach. “They cut his ab muscles horizontally and by hand spilled his guts out,” the soldier said. “When they finished, they raised him up and walked him on the deck outside. He was conscious the whole time…. ”

Glenn:

“They’re calling … they’re calling for him to actually be a dictator or acts like a dictator. No thank you. No thank you,” … “I get in hot water for showing how we are expanding government so much that if a wrong guy gets in, we will have a dictator. But MSNBC can literally demand that the president start being a dictator and there’s nothing.”

… scratch a progressive …

John Oakley is seriously entertaining the question of whether Canadian judges should give those who commit “honour” killings a break because they have different “cultural practices” and may not be aware of our norms and laws; defence attorney Lawrence Ben-Eliezer thinks judges should take these differences into consideration because we have “multiculturalism”.

… read on.
Speaking of cultural sensitivity … an oldie.
Update: Cultural sensivity in Progressia is never a two-way-street.
Update 2: Wente

… nostalgia for the good old days of Katrina is about to kick in:

Eight days ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state’s oil-soaked waters. Today, against the governor’s wishes, those barges sat idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore.
“It’s the most frustrating thing,” the Republican governor said today in Buras, La. “Literally, yesterday morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges.”

Observers were nonplused when a South Carolina man named Alvin Green was elected as the Democratic Party’s nominee in the US Senate election held last week. The unemployed Greene, who lives with his mother, hadn’t made any campaign appearances, for one thing, but more disconcertingly, his mental capabilities appear to be in doubt; in some interviews, he looks like a cross between a proverbial deer-in-the-headlights and a chrysanthemum.
Prominent Democrats are suggesting he’s another kind of plant – a Republican one. Democrat Rep. Jim Clyburn speculated that Greene might be a Republican operative – presumably, the Republicans are in possession of a super-secret mind-control device that they can use on Democrat voters – and even Obama’s senior advisor David Axelrod, who described Greene’s victory as a “big mystery,” said his win “doesn’t appear” legitimate.
It’s all such a super-mysterious mystery. Ann Coulter:

“Yes, how could a young African-American man with strange origins, suspicious funding, shady associations, no experience, no qualifications, and no demonstrable work history come out of nowhere and win an election?”