In his book Intellectuals and Society, Thomas Sowell responds to the progressive argument that prisons are not an effective response to crime, because so many prisoners are rearrested after they are released:

By this kind of reasoning, food is ineffective as a response to hunger because it is only a matter of time after eating before you get hungry again.

Say goodbye to the Rino:

In the survey, 71% of Republicans described themselves as tea-party supporters, saying they had a favorable image of the movement or hoped tea- party candidates would do well in the Nov. 2 elections.
Already, the tea-party movement has helped to oust a number of incumbents and candidates backed by party leaders in this year’s GOP primaries amid complaints that they lacked commitment to small-government principles. The poll findings suggest that the rising influence of the movement, with its push to cut spending and oppose the Democratic agenda, will drive the GOP to become more conservative and less willing to seek common ground on policy.

Klaus:

Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Saturday criticized U.N. calls for increased “global governance” of the world’s economy, saying the world body should leave that role to national governments.
The solution to dealing with the global economic crisis, Klaus told the U.N. General Assembly, did not lie in “creating new governmental and supranational agencies, or in aiming at global governance of the world economy.”

“But then, there is the “progressive” class … that aimless mass of Western humanity so burdened by cultural self-loathing that it is to Islam, as ungulates are to lions.”

Two activists have exposed a disturbing phenomenon that they say is an open secret within the “peace camp”: female “peace” activists are routinely harassed and raped by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria with whom they have come to identify. They say the phenomenon has gotten worse lately and that many foreign women end up as wives of local Arabs against their will, but cannot escape their new homes.

Ezra Levant:

“If we shut down the oilsands, Americans are going to fill up their cars with gas from somewhere else.”

John Vidal, in The Guardian:

More oil is spilled from the (Niger) delta’s network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico… With 606 oilfields, the Niger delta supplies 40% of all the crude the United States imports and is the world capital of oil pollution…

Last week Århus-based Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten ran a series of articles dealing with immigration issues. One particular story in the Ghetto Land series focused on the experiences of a kind-hearted Danish woman who had been strongly committed to the notion of integration, and who put her money where her mouth is by creating a project designed to bring immigrants and native Danes together over dinner, but who over time began to experience, erm, life-altering difficulties in her area of Copenhagen, including chaos and unpleasantness at her 3-year old daughter’s kindergarten, and a certain level of menace in her neighbourhood – people standing in the middle of the road blocking her car and refusing to get out of the way, that sort of thing.
Recently, her 12-year old son was attacked for a third time:

He and a friend were on their way home from school and were walking up Nørrebrogade [major thoroughfare] when 12-14 immigrant boys began circling them. Benjamin had seen a couple of the boys previously at a Tae Kwon Do club. The group of immigrant boys managed to separate Benjamin and his friend so that each boy was surrounded by 6-7 immigrants. They started pushing the two Danish boys between them as if they were balls in a game. Slowly the boys were forced out onto the street. The traffic stopped and Benjamin made eye contact with some of the cyclists and drivers, silently pleading for help while being pushed around. No one came to his aid.

His friend was hit and kicked so severely that he ended up at the hospital emergency room. Benjamin escaped onto a bus, but his assailants followed. He had to jump off the bus and seek refuge in a shop before anyone helped him. (emph.mine)

Poor kid obviously needed more bystanders:

Socialists presented a series of proposals Friday to resolve the ghetto problems, including relocation of university students, entrepreneurs and public activities to the areas…

To Trudeau or not to Trudeau?
A poll for the taking.

… insult 42 percent of likely voters:

Fox News pushes “a point of view that I disagree with. It’s a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country that has a vibrant middle class and is competitive in the world,” Obama said.

May 2009:

Gary Burtless, an economist at the Brookings Institution, says the Obama administration proved it wouldn’t cave to creditors’ demands. Avoiding bankruptcy would have been a better outcome, he says, but by telling the creditors who held out for more money that the government would accept bankruptcy, “The administration showed that it wasn’t going to be the first to blink.”

September 2010: