O, happy happy official Earth Day! And I can’t think of a better way to kick it off than to remember the founder of Earth Day, Ira “The Unicorn” Einhorn- now better known as Inmate #ES6859 at Houtzdale State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania.

The True Finns are an anti-immigration party, wary of the influence of Brussels. A measure of their rise is that at the last election they secured just 4% of the vote. Yesterday they got 19%, which put them in third place. They expect to be invited to talks about joining a coalition.
Unlike other countries in the eurozone, Finland’s parliament has the right to vote on EU requests to bail-out other countries. Potentially the strong showing of the True Finns could delay the rescue plan for Portugal.
“This is a big, big bang in Finish politics,” Jan Sundberg, a professor from Helsinki University, says. “This is a big, big change.”

Just 8 hours to liftoff! (Heh. They’re actually running a countdown clock…)
Update: Sun News website, where it states a “watch live” option is coming soon.

Top US political donors from 1989-2010.

The Frontier Centre For Public Policy is hosting a series of luncheons with Dr. Patrick Moore. Info at the links.
April 11, 2011 — Saskatoon
April 12, 2011 — Regina
April 13, 2011 — Winnipeg

The Prince Arthur Herald is “a recently-launched, conservative student newspaper based out of McGill University, and is the only publication of its kind in Canada.” Check them out!
Related – At Montreal’s McGill University, jihadi death threats are protected speech. Looks like the Herald arrived just in time!

Tennessee is not Wisconsin.

Because that would mean replacing “right wing” with “top ranked”;

The University of Pennsylvania’s Global Go-To Think-Tank Index, a recently released global survey of close to 1,500 scholars, policy makers, and journalists, ranked the Fraser Institute No. 1 among 97 think-tanks in Canada, for the third year in a row. The report also named the Fraser Institute as the only Canadian organization in the Top 25 leading think-tanks in the world in 2010, out of a global group of 6,480 think-tanks.

The Global GoTo Report 2010 (PDF)

We’re winning.

The overwhelming veto-proof, bipartisan vote today means that New Hampshire is now on a path to doing something that looked impossible just a couple years ago — repeal a cap-and-trade program. In the process, it could deal the death blow to cap and trade both regionally and nationally.

Related: “No, thank you, I would like one for free.”
h/t Maz2

“This is beyond insane,” Providence Teachers Union President Steve Smith said Tuesday night. “Let’s create the most chaos and the highest level of anxiety in a district where teachers are already under unbelievable stress. Now I know how the United States State Department felt on Dec. 7 , 1941.”

And what have you done with the Boston Globe?

Atlas Shrugged: April 15, 2011.

On Reagan’s 100th birthday.

In Question Period on Thursday, Minister of Human Resources & Social Development Diane Finley said, “It’s the Liberals who wanted to ensure that parents are forced to have other people raise their children. We do not believe in that.”
So we’d like to ask you,
– Yes
– No
– Unsure

Maybe if just a few more people voted “No”, two CBC polls in a row would mysteriously disappear!
h/t Steve
Update: Additional similar poll here  h/t Bluetech

Make a Rabbler cry.

The Alberta Enterprise Group is pleased to present controversial author, activist and media pundit Ezra Levant. Mr. Levant will discuss his latest book “Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands.” Canada’s “no. 1 defender of freedom of speech” and the best-selling author of Shakedown makes the timely and provocative case that when it comes to oil, ethics matter just as much as the economy and the environment.

February 9, 2011 Edmonton Westin Hotel. More details here.
 

Yet, still employed.

The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes of 2010, at Right Wing News.

Ventura County Star;

Gov. Susana Martinez on Tuesday took aim at the controversial Environmental Improvement Board, announcing that she was removing all members over concerns about the board’s approval in recent months of what she considers “antibusiness” policies.
The board – made up of members appointed by former Gov. Bill Richardson – was at the center of a heated debate last year over whether New Mexico should regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The board ultimately decided to approve two proposals – one from an environmental group that aimed to limit the emissions of the state’s largest polluters and another from the state Environment Department that called for a regional cap-and-trade program.
Supporters argue the board went through an exhaustive public process before approving the regulations, but Martinez’s office contends the board moved forward with the regulations after state lawmakers rejected similar efforts during the legislative process.
Martinez said in a statement that New Mexico has been hurt by policies that discourage economic development and result in businesses fleeing the state.
“Unfortunately, the majority of EIB members have made it clear that they are more interested in advancing political ideology than implementing commonsense policies that balance economic growth with responsible stewardship in New Mexico,” Martinez said.

h/t Robert W.