The man who championed the Occupy Calgary cause and made a failed bid at running in last fall’s Calgary Centre byelection has been charged with threatening two prosecutors. […]
Christensen, 27, was arrested last Friday and charged with six counts relating to March 13 allegations he tried to get two prosecutors to drop charges against an admitted child molester.
h/t Dan H.
UN honours mass murdering Communist.
Still too many reporters.
…The marriage to Anthony Weiner, a prominent Jewish progressive, enables Huma Abedin to deflect attention from her associations with various Islamic supremacists even as, during her tenure as a top State Department official, American policy embraces Islamic supremacists.
Tonight diligence, creativity, grace, hope, and beauty rise like a phoenix from the ashes of poverty in the slums of Cateura, Paraguay: Here’s the inspirational and moving story of the Landfilharmonic Orchestra.
h/t Kate
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In this podcast, James Delingpole and Tim Stanley discuss a series of topics, including L.A. street gangs, Detroit’s trajectory from wealthiest city in America to disaster, global warming hypocrites, why crony capitalists love big government, the Royal Baby, and more. Absolutely delightful!
Her name is Renee Vaughan. Her employer, the Texas Campaign For The Environment
Can anyone blame Mark & Dana Gerstle for being fearful of talking about George Zimmerman too loudly?
As a result of the 2005 Clean Air Act,
… refiners need to blend a certain amount of ethanol into gasoline every year, and every year the amount they blend in goes higher and higher,” Lutz told the investment reporting firm Breakout. It’s not that expensive to comply with the mandate when consumption of gas is high, but when it goes down, the cost of compliance soars. Lutz estimates that half the current price spike can be attributed directly to compliance with the ethanol mandate.
Glenn Reynolds: “… it makes a good excuse to run this Andrew Breitbart video from the first phase of the Weiner scandal. Since then, of course, the NYT, People, and other house organs pronounced Weiner rehabilitated. They look just about as credible as they did when Andrew was talking about them.”
Tonight, Andy Prieboy sings to us the modern personal parable called Donny and Goliath.
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Had Obama followed Truman, we’d be speaking Japanese right now;
Al-Qaeda in Iraq-recently rebranded, after a merger with its Syrian affiliate, as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-has already been displaying formidable capabilities, given that it now seems to set off a major explosion at least once a week. The raid to free imprisoned al-Qaeda members-which featured complex, military-style maneuvers-is a further sign of its strength. And of course with the aid of the newly released terrorists, al-Qaeda in Iraq will only get stronger still.
Related – …estimates of the death toll from the Syrian Civil War – 83,000 to 110,000 – are now reaching the low end of the Iraq War casualties; by the time the bloodbath over there ends, it may surpass the death toll from the Iraq War.
Read all about it at The Gods of the Copybook Headings.
