Eco-Minister Flunks Global Warming Test
Dennis Avery, Canada Free Press, Churchville, VA
And even the alarmists admit these carbon taxes would only reduce the earth’s future warming by a barely-measurable one ten-thousandth of a degree C. The alarmists own math, CO2 makes up only 3.8 percent of the atmosphere, humans release only about 4 percent of that, and it just doesn’t matter.
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Scientists Write Open Letter to Congress: 'You Are Being Deceived About Global Warming' -- 'Earth has been cooling for ten years'
Marc Morano, Climate Depot, Washington
The sky is not falling; the Earth has been cooling for ten years, without help. The present cooling was NOT predicted by the alarmists' computer models, and has come as an embarrassment to them. The finest meteorologists in the world cannot predict the weather two weeks in advance, let alone the climate for the rest of the century. Can Al Gore? Can John Holdren? We are flooded with claims that the evidence is clear, that the debate is closed, that we must act immediately, etc, but in fact
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Canada Sees Boom in Private Health Care Business
Molly Line, Fox News, Toronto
Facing long waits and substandard care, a growing number of Canadians are willing to pay for health treatment, leading to a booming private business in Canada -- a country often touted as a successful example of a universal health system.
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Last rites for ID cards read by Johnson
Nigel Morris, Independent, UK
The Home Secretary Alan Johnson killed off the Government's cherished compulsory identity cards scheme last night, promising that British citizens would never be forced to sign up for them. Critics urged the Government to retreat further and scrap its flagship £5bn policy outright.
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North Korean ship changes course
MSNBC, Washington
A U.S. official says a North Korean ship has turned around and is headed back the way it came, after being tracked for days by American vessels on suspicion it was carrying illicit weapons.
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EU Treaty Ratification Temporarily Delayed by German High Court
Karin Matussek and James G. Neuger, Bloomberg, Karlsruhe
The German delay may buy time for opponents of the treaty elsewhere in the EU, potentially undercutting efforts to forge a united European front in combating the deepest recession since World War II. Ireland, Poland and the Czech Republic
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6 Mousavi supporters reportedly hanged
Sabina Amidi, Jerusalem Post, Tehran
Speaking after Iran's top legislative body upheld the election victory of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources in Iran told this reporter in a telephone interview that the hangings took place in the holy city of Mashhad on Monday. There was no independent confirmation of the report.
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Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts
Ian Randal Strock, SF Scope, Los Angeles
Boom! Studios sends word that comics writer Mark Sable was detained by TSA security guards at Los Angeles International Airport this past weekend because he was carrying a script for a new issue of his comic miniseries Unthinkable. Sable was detained while traveling to New York for a debut party at Jim Hanley's Universe today.
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Remembering Panama
Brasscheck
After the invasion, billions of dollars were removed from the Panamanian banking system by federal mandate, just in time to help bail out the failed S & L industry which collapsed under the weight of corruption and "deregulation."
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It’s Now Legal to Catch a Raindrop in Colorado
Kirk Johnson, The NY Times, Durango
For the first time since territorial days, rain will be free for the catching here, as more and more thirsty states part ways with one of the most entrenched codes of the West
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6 States Want to Nullify Obamacare With Opt Out Law
Freedom's Phoenix, Nation
Six states are currently looking to add an “opt out” law to their books to protect citizens from the possibility of a national healthcare plan imposed by federal fiat. Arizona started the ball rolling by introducing the Health Care Freedom Act, a voting initiative that will be put before voters on the 2010 ballot. If accepted by the majority of the voters, Arizona will be able to opt out of any federal healthcare laws passed by Washington. Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota and Wyoming are considering
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Full of Pork, Climate Bill Passed
John M. Broder, NY Times, Washington
As the most ambitious energy and climate-change legislation ever introduced in Congress made its way to a floor vote last Friday, it grew fat with compromises, carve-outs, concessions and out-and-out gifts intended to win the votes of wavering lawmakers and the support of powerful industries.
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Guns on campus OK'd by Arizona Senate
Howard Fischer, The Herald, Phoenix
Saying it will make people safer, state senators voted Friday to let people with concealed weapons permits carry them onto college and university campuses where they are now forbidden.
The 15-6 vote on the provision in HB 2439 came after backers said they believe that having people who are licensed by the state to have weapons should cut down on the number of massacres that occur on campuses. And Sen. John Huppenthal, R-Chandler, said that has happened in Arizona.
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Gun-rights advocates say Coliseum staff challenged free-speech rights
Will Jones, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, VA
The group says officials at the Richmond Coliseum recently attempted to stop members from handing out blaze-orange "Guns Save Lives" stickers before an appearance by radio and television talk-show host Glenn Beck.
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Fatwa: Bangladeshi woman brutally whipped
Express Buzz, Dhaka, Bangladesh
A widow was whipped 202 times and a man 101 times following a fatwa by a religious leader for their alleged involvement in "anti-social activity" in a village in southeastern Bangladesh, prompting local protests and action by the police.
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