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We Are Breitbart
“I first met Breitbart when he showed up at a panel I was on at UCLA. He told me he was the guy who posted items for Matt Drudge, and I immediately realized he was the most powerful person in the room. Nobody could understand why I was sucking up to the crazed hippie kid in shorts.”
That “reduced spare mental capacity”
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Captain Jean-Marc Bélanger, chairman of the 3,000-member union, said in an internal newsletter to pilots that he conducted a self-assessment and deemed himself unfit to fly, based on his personal workload and sleep deprivation…
Those Moderate Muslims!
Of 500 young Asians questioned, 18% also felt that certain behaviour by women that could affect her family’s honour justified physical punishment.
These included disobeying their father, and wanting to leave an exisiting or prearranged marriage.
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They were also asked if they felt there was ever a justification for so-called “honour killings”. Only 3% said that it could be justified.
However, when divided by sex, 6% of young Asian men said that honour killings could be justified, compared with just 1% of Asian women surveyed.
Reader Tips
Tonight, via the miracle of Scopitone, actor/singer Guy Marchand alternates between a suave French crooning voice and what sounds like a war cry emanating from a minaret, in a très French performance of La Passionata. Je ne sais pas.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The Glorious West
If I had to illustrate in a short video the glories of Western Civilization, I’d choose the following. (full screen volume up recommended)
More thoughts @ Cjunk.
America in the Age of Insanity
What Would We Do Without Harm Reduction?
“When the needle’s thrown outside and exposed to the elements for any period of time, there’s very little virus there,” said [addictions specialist Dr. Leo Lanoie], adding even if someone gets injected with a freshly infected needle, their risk of getting infected is about three per cent.
Lanoie said as far as he knows, there has never been a reported case of HIV picked up from a ground needle in Saskatchewan, and approximately only two cases were reported worldwide.
Really.
So, instead of handing out millions of free needles each year to Saskatchewan junkies, let them recycle the ones they pick up off the ground.
Conservative Models
(That ought to drag in the search engines). John O’Sullivan reviews the current state of conservativism in the US, Canada, Austraila and Great Britain. (h/t Adrian)
Y2Kyoto: We’re Winning
Senator Nancy Greene-Raine in a speech before the Canadian Senate;
Honourable senators, I rise to address Bill S-205, an Act to amend the Income Tax Act. If passed, this amendment would give tax credits to Canadians who invest in so-called carbon offsets. While I have no objection to citizens spending their own money in any way they choose, I do not support the government’s giving tax credits for carbon offsets. I say this for several reasons. First and foremost, I consider it an unnecessary and undesirable expense at a time when we should be looking for ways to reduce the tax burden on Canadians. While it is true that the amendment would benefit those who invest in carbon offsets, it would be an expense that would have to be covered by all other taxpayers. I say it is unnecessary because, contrary to the assertions of the honourable senator sponsoring the bill, it addresses an issue that is more and more being questioned by new scientific evidence. We simply do not know that our actions have a significant impact on the global climate, let alone that “the consequences of not acting can be catastrophic,” to quote Senator Mitchell.
Go thank her.
h/t Ron in Kelowna
It’s Probably Nothing
On March 16th, President Obama signed a new Executive Order which expands upon a prior order issued in 1950 for Disaster Preparedness, and gives the office of the President complete control over all the resources in the United States in times of war or emergency.
The National Defense Resources Preparedness order gives the Executive Branch the power to control and allocate energy, production, transportation, food, and even water resources by decree under the auspices of national defense and national security. The order is not limited to wartime implementation, as one of the order’s functions includes the command and control of resources in peacetime determinations.
Text here.
Via Uncle Meat.
Update – More on the “National Defense Resources Preparedness” EO from Ed Morrissey
Reader Tips
That’ll be Cash On The Barrelhead, son. Not part, not half, but the entire sum.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
So let’s see. The president sneers at the ignorance of 15th century Spaniards when, in fact, he is the one entirely ignorant of them. A man who has enjoyed a million dollars of elite education yet has never created a dime of wealth in his life sneers at a crippled farm boy with an eighth-grade schooling who establishes a successful business and introduces electrical distribution across Michigan all the way up to Sault Ste Marie. A man sneers at one of the pioneering women in broadcasting, a lady who brought the voices of T.S. Eliot, G.K. Chesterton and others into the farthest-flung classrooms and would surely have rejected Obama’s own dismal speech as being too obviously reliant on “Half-A-Dozen Surefire Cheap Cracks For Lazy Public Speakers.” A man whose own budget officials predict the collapse of the entire U.S. economy by 2027 sneers at a solvent predecessor for being insufficiently “forward-looking.”
Related!
… and also related: #BarackObamasPresidentialFacts
h/t Marc
An Entirely New Meaning to “Sudbury Saturday Night”
Most Canadians are quite familiar with this classic from Tom Connors:
But the Sudbury Catholic School Board has some suggestions for young girls about what should constitute a “fun” Saturday night.
Deep Impact
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Free Ethical Oil!
Outside Fort McMurray, it is impossible to escape the furor over the Alberta oilsands. Its product is routinely described, lazily and slanderously, as the dirtiest on the planet. The Premier of Ontario, a province that owes much of its prosperity to its huge automobile industry shivers when he looks at Alberta, mutters about the dark forces of the “petro-dollar,” and implied (until he was scolded and half-recanted) that somehow Ontario’s fretful financial state is Alberta’s fault.
It’s almost a fantasy disconnect. Dalton Mcguinty can throw billions at General Motors and urge the feds to do the same, all to save the automobile industry. He ignores that four decades or more of Ontario’s prosperity wasn’t founded on windmills: It was based on gas-guzzling cars and trucks.
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[H]ow easily we bite the hand that feeds us. “Environment” has become a narrow, bitterly focussed word turning exclusively on hurts or despoilations of nature, magnifying the slightest alteration or disturbance of “the natural” as an unspeakable sin.
There is another wider, larger, humane dimension to the environment — larger and more vital than any reference to landscape. That is the human and social element, the business of supplying reasonable support for workers and their families, towns and communities, and ultimately wealth for the entire nation. We owe something, it is true to the rocks and trees. We also owe something to human beings as well.
Reader Tips
Tonight, in one of those rare live musical performances that fill the room with energy and practically make your hair stand on end, transformative modern duo T Coils face off in an electrifying cover version of Dueling Banjos.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
The Horror, The Horror!
OMG who would ever imagine that a government would have the audacity to provide job training for welfare recipients?!?
The B.C. government is considering a plan to help people get off welfare by flying them north to cash in on high-paying jobs in areas such as the oil and gas industry.
Minister of Social Development Stephanie Cadieux, whose ministry is involved in planning the project, said she anticipates the program will be attractive to only a “modest number of people.” She said the government will not force people into the program, or remove benefits from those who refuse to participate.
Shauna Butterwick, an associate professor at the University of B.C. and a researcher for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, has penned two reports on creating meaningful training programs for welfare recipients in B.C. She said the proposed plan appears to have a “limited view” and does not factor in the reasons why many people are on welfare in the first place. “One thing that welfare studies have found to be really crucial is that the social networks [welfare recipients] create are the one thing that helps them survive,” she said. “You would be taking them from that. Those kinds of social networks you don’t just recreate overnight. I would expect a level of isolation and alienation.”
Charles Adler & David Menzies discuss this “outrageous” idea.
Great Moments In Journalism
NOTE: This American Life has retracted this story because we learned that many of Mike Daisey’s experiences in China were fabricated.
In The Mail
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