2pm: Post edited at suggestion of Rabbit.
The Tolerant Left
[David Corn] was spotted in the Barnes & Noble at Union Station throwing a fit because his new book — his fifth — fitting called Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party out today didn’t have its own display. He was overheard yelling at the manager that “every paper in America” was going to be talking about his book today and yet nobody could find it there.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
University! (Via email).
I am the President of McGill Friends of Israel, a new and growing student club. To counterbalance the demonization of Israel during Israel Apartheid Week, our club decided to host Israel Peace Week.
This initiative’s largest event was “Israel: A Party”, an obvious play on words to show our rejection of those terms. This was a festive event, with wine and appetizers, largely apolitical. The keynote speakers were journalist Barbara Kay and the Israeli consul-general in Montreal, Joel Lion, but we also had representatives from all three national parties condemning IAW and showing us their support.
In the days leading up to the event, we received interrogation as to why we chose the name we did, and were soon faced with an official “Equity Complaint”. We were asked to change the name (or face consequences such as revocation of official club status) by student union representatives. Said a student union representative: “we feel that the title “Israel A-party” makes too much light of the convictions and experiences of students such as the claimant of this complaint”, and “In the interest of both freedom of speech and safer space, therefore strongly encourage MFI to re-title the event on all promotional material immediately”.
McGill is a “safe space” for the promoters of Israel Apartheid Week, but not for pro-Israel students.
McGill’s student union equity policy (pdf).
Plenty more from Barbara Kay.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Now you see it, now you don’t!
A Seal Walks Into A Club…
Reader Tips
Tonight’s musical amusement en route to the Tips features former rodeo rider Rex Allen, aka The Arizona Cowboy, in a live televised performance of Son, Don’t Go Near The Indians.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
“You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.”
The Great Not-Quite-White Hunter
Air Canada Union Not Happy at YVR
More than a few travelers at YVR were frustrated with this blockade.
Not Watching For The Asteroid
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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