More.

…but only if you’re the President:

Over the weekend, it…emerged that for the first time in his six-year national political career, Mr Obama is being told by White House aides that there are certain areas of the country where he is being advised not to visit because his approval rating and the local political environment is too hostile. The locations of the areas have not been disclosed.

Democrats seem to know precisely where those areas are:

During a visit by Mr Obama to Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday, the Democrat candidate for governor was ‘not available’ to meet the president and campaigned elsewhere in the state.

A Kinder Gentler Canada:

There she waited more than three hours, blood seeping out of her jeans, tears rolling down her face as she feared she was losing her baby — or that she might be bleeding to death.

Update: Be sure to read the comments at The Guardian.

My son just pointed out to me that he can now read the content of the confidential reports he was privy too in KAF … online.
So now, our national broadcaster has become online shock-jock … treasonous one at that.
Kill the beast!
Vote

In the Ottawa Citizen, U of Ottawa professor Errol Mendes expresses his thinly-veiled outrage over Stephen Harper’s attempts to wrest control of public policy from a deeply-embedded shadow government of unelected bureaucrats:

The proper role of the federal public service is to provide fearless advice to the government on policies that are critical to the future of all Canadians. The government has the right to decide whether to accept that advice or reject it and then to expect the federal public service to loyally implement the government’s policy decisions if they are lawful.

What the government can’t do, if it does not want to torture Canadian democracy, is to force public servants to develop and promote policies they do not accept as in the interests of Canadians, and then pretend the public service is fully supportive of the ideologically driven policies.

Yes, you read that right: it’s up to public servants to decide whether they will accept or not accept the policies of an elected government, and they have a right to determine whether or not a particular policy is “in the interests of Canadians.” As for the PM, he’s getting in the way, and overstepping his bounds:

This is not the first time the government has sought to undermine the critical task of the public service to provide fearless advice.

What Mendes euphemistically calls “advice,” of course, rational people would call “unelected, partisan bureaucrats opposing and stifling the policies of an elected Conservative government”:

There is a deep chill in many departments such as Environment, Justice, Foreign Affairs and CIDA, where objective research and advice by department officials on issues such as the real dangers of climate change, deeply counterproductive use of mandatory sentencing, and unbalanced foreign policies and foreign aid are stopped from ever seeing the light of day. In addition, the Prime Minister’s Office vets almost all external communication, resulting in Canadians not being able to test the fearless advice offered by public servants against the destructive ideologies of perhaps Canada’s most ideologically driven government.

Mendes asks Canadians to join him in conflating democracy and behind-the-scenes bureaucratic rulership:

The undermining of the public service of Canada should be one of the most important ballot box issues in the coming federal election

Yes, well, if millions of Canadian voters were CHRT Tribunal Members like Mr. Mendes was, or if they had been hired by a Liberal prime minister as a senior advisor in the Privy Council Office to “handle diversity in the public service,” perhaps they might consider the matter of entrenching the back-door powers of the unelected public service as being one of the most important ballot box issues. As it stands, they seem to prefer that their government be an elected one.

From an obituary in the Telegraph (UK):

Professor Stephen Schneider, who died on Monday aged 65, made his name in the 1970s by predicting a ‘new ice age’, but went on to become one of the best-known proponents of the idea of global warming caused by human activities.

(h/t Devil’s Kitchen)

First they came to redistribute your wealth … then they came for your IQ:

From Van Helsing:

You have to assume this stuff actually works with moonbats. Imagine lacking the smarts to discern between communists building a wall to keep slaves in, and patriots building a wall to keep invaders out — or between liberal demigod FDR locking people up for their Japanese ancestry, and the great Joe Arpaio incarcerating criminals who break our laws.

A news report in Thursday’s Edmonton Journal, titled “Global warming ‘undeniable,’ world report says” is accompanied by photo of a boy – he looks maybe six years old – paddling a primitive canoe with two siblings aboard, one of whom appears to be little more than a toddler. The caption to the photo says:

Kuna children row toward their island in Kuna Yala last month. Rising seas from global warming are forcing thousands of indigenous Panamanians to leave their ancestral homes and climate change is being blamed, at least in part.

According to the NSIDC, the sea level has risen 3 mm – about a tenth of an inch – per year since 1993. The IPCC – hardly a bastion of understatement when it comes to touting AGW damage – estimates the average rate of sea level rise to be 1.8 mm annually – or about one-fourteenth of an inch per year.
Yes, run, indigenous peoples of the world, flee your ancestral homes and run for higher ground.