Paul Hinman has won the Calgary-Glenmore by-election.
Discuss.

(updated)
The crowd, in time lapse.
More at Instapundit and from Stephen Green, plus a live feed at Fox News:

How big was the rally? They forced the New York Times to report it, that’s how big.

Where the foxes caper …
Tally ho!

The recently elected mayor of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, has infuriated Britain’s politically powerful homosexualist lobby by attempting to withhold local funding for this year’s Gay Pride celebrations. The funding for this year’s event in June went through, but Mayor Peter Davies, a member of the English Democrat party and the father of Tory MP Philip Davies, has scrapped all future funding for the annual Gay Pride event.
“I’m not a homophobe,” he said, “but I don’t see why council taxpayers should pay to celebrate anyone’s sexuality.”
Davies is only the second mayor of Doncaster to have been elected directly by a popular vote rather than by council members. He campaigned on a popular platform, that has reportedly alarmed the political classes on both the Labour and Tory sides of the House, in which he pledged to “stamp out political correctness” in every area of Doncaster’s local government.
To accomplish this, Davies has recruited the group Campaign Against Political Correctness (CAPC) to consult on his planned reforms. A spokesman for the CAPC, John Midgley, said that “people are crying out” for an end to the wave of politically correct policies in Britain. “We commissioned a survey by ICM,” Midgley said, “that said 80 per cent of people are fed up to the back teeth with it.”
Davies promised to end council funding for “politically correct initiatives” and to “scrap politically correct non-jobs” such as “community cohesion officers” and “encourage the former employees to seek meaningful employment.”
In his first week in office, Davies fulfilled his promises by cutting his own salary from £73,000 to £30,000; reducing the number of councillors from 63 to 21, saving the town £800,000 a year. He immediately announced plans to reduce council tax by 3 per cent and got rid of the mayoral limousine. He ended a “twinning” arrangement with five towns around the world, which he described as “just for people to fly off and have a binge at the council’s expense.”

More at the Daily Mail and Telegraph. (link fixed)
Read ’em both.
h/t Edward Michael George

Steven F. Hayward stopped by the vast Silicon Graffiti production facilities in the suburbs of San Jose on Friday to discuss the second and final volume in his history of Ronald Reagan and his era. The new volume is titled, The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980-1989, and is due out this week.

At Pajamas Media. (sorry, linked fixed!)

Congratulations to Russel J. Lyster taking the top prize in the Fraser Institute Essay Contest for Excellence in the Pursuit of Measurement.
You can read his submission as well as those chosen runners-up here.

Michelle Malkin ‘s new book is in its second week at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. (Have they reviewed it yet?)

Michelle should be charged with hit and run for what she does here to Matt Lauer….

The Fraser Institute is giving away $10,000 in cash and electronics prizes in its 2009 Student Video Contest. The topic is: What is the appropriate role of government in the economy?
Full contest details can be found at: http://www.fraserinstitute.org/videocontest

Words that every conservative politician needs to print out and read each morning before getting out of bed:

The essence of modern conservatism — and its source of strength — has been the vigilant and rigorous reform and renewal of flagging institutional governance, based on balancing maximum individual liberty with social order. That message was the catalyst for policy and political progress. To their detriment, Republicans have fallen into the Information Age’s false premise that the messenger is the message. Such a mindset is tailor-made for liberals, who have perfected the politics of personal destruction and have erected an unprecedented infrastructure for mauling conservative messengers.
Too many Republicans go weak-kneed in the face of chattering-class criticism of personalities that don’t conform to a clichéd, insular ideal of urbanity — which, not incidentally, never includes conservative Americans. Rather than defend the true superstars of message-coherence and -delivery, such as Rush Limbaugh, they jump on the trendy totalitarian bandwagon in the absurd belief that they will either be let into the club or spared its wrath.

A National Post interview with Dambisa Moyo;

No country on Earth has ever achieved long-term growth and reduced poverty in a meaningful way by relying on aid. It’s just never happened. So we’re pushing a strategy that has no evidence of working anywhere on Earth. And we have years of evidence that the aid strategy doesn’t work.

Well, it depends on how one measures success. Welfare has never worked to raise individuals out of poverty either, but that’s not what the modern system has evolved to do. Outside of academia, there is no more reliable a voting bloc for the left than the dysfunctional, dependent neighborhood. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

Voting begins!

Marks their 1st anniversary with guest host Mark Steyn.

“I thought the whole world lived in areas where the streets are filthy, aggressive street behavior is allowed because the perps are victims of capitalism…”
h/t Robert W.

At The Politic: Submit your suggestions for the top ten un-conservative things the Conservative Party of Canada has done since their election in 2006.

Rush Limbaugh has a national approval rating.

The “liberal” position: A crime with one offender and three victims.
The “conservative” position: A crime with three offenders, and one victim.
The “progressive” position: Our crime, they’re all victims.

h/t Karl

Here’s an offer that’s hard to beat…

One year free trial membership!

Still #1.

John Hawkins interviews Mark Levin.

It’s tax day in the US, and the “severely normal” take to the streets. A google map of today’s Tea Party Protests across America:

Postcards from the suicide watch;

…from most Big Media, “confusion and ambivalence.” “A good story is to be had, but it’s not exactly a story they want to tell. So what to do?”

It’s why Sean Hannity will be covering the Atlanta event for Fox News from CNN’s doorstep. It’s also why CNN has slipped to third place among cable news channels.
Lots at Instapundit, plus Pamajas Media will be collecting and providing coverage all day.

…have been greatly exaggerated;

“The signing event at Tysons Corner is mobbed. The end of the line has been warned that they will have a 5 hour wait minimum and may not be able to see [Mark] Levin for an autograph. But the line continued to grow. Hasn’t even begun.”

Update: Now there’s video

Related: Sean Hannity – taking the jobs CNN won’t do!