John McCain has joined with 23 other Senate Republicans to call for ethanol production mandates to be eased in light of rising grain prices. McCain did not vote on the 2007 energy bill that contains President Bush’s new bio-fuel requirements. Food prices have increased substantially worldwide and CNN reports that riots have occurred in Egypt,…
Category: World
Sharia "Inevitable" in Britain
Hot on the heels of Britain’s Department for Work and Pensions allowing extra benefits for polygamists comes this pronouncement from the Archbishop of Canterbury: Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4’s World at One that the UK has to "face up to the fact" that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal…
Double Your Pleasure…
…by marrying multiple women and helping to destroy Britain by increasing the strain that you and yours put on the infidel nation’s already burgeoning welfare state! It sounds ridiculous – heck, it is ridiculous! – but the new guidelines issued by the Department for Work and Pensions read thusly: "Where there is a valid polygamous…
Taiwan to Seek U.N. Membership
Taiwan’s March 2008 referendum will evidently take place without much support from the United States. Per the BBC: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Washington is strongly opposed to Taiwan’s plan for a referendum on United Nations membership. Ms Rice said applying to the UN in the name of “Taiwan” was a “provocative policy”…
Chavez Shot Down
The Venezuelan people emerged victorious after the referendum that would have granted President Hugo Chavez vast powers to further the conversion of the South American nation’s economy into full-fledged socialism. In Caracas, Valencia, Maracaibo and other major cities, large crowds spilled into the streets, shouting, chanting, clapping and waving flags. One man carried a sign proclaiming,…
Shove Off, Chavez
Not long ago the NY Times wrote about Hugo Chavez’s “extraordinary experiment” in oil-fueled socialism thusly: In two weeks, Venezuela seems likely to start an extraordinary experiment in centralized, oil-fueled socialism. By law, the workday would be cut to six hours. Street vendors, homemakers and maids would have state-mandated pensions. And President Hugo Chávez would…
Bhutto Calls Out Musharraf
In a NY Times editorial, Benazir Bhutto says that Pervez Musharraf’s declaration of martial law "will be remembered as the blackest day in the history of Pakistan." Let’s hope that is true. But there may be blacker days still to come. More: Opposition party members, lawyers, judges, human rights advocates and journalists have been rounded…
ARI Counters the U.N. “Human Rights” Council
Yesterday the Ayn Rand Institute weighed in on the farce that is the United Nations Human Rights Council by saying: The U.N. Human Rights Council recently passed a resolution urging nations to pass laws prohibiting the dissemination of ideas that “defame religion.” It appears that the resolution was partly a response to last year’s Danish…
UN Watch: UN Human Rights Council “Criminal”
Watch UN Watch’s presentation to the UN Human Rights Commission at Little Green Footballs – it’s a good thing. Here’s the transcript as lifted from UN Watch’s own web site: (Note that it’s not exact. But it’s close. And damning.) Mr. President, Six decades ago, in the aftermath of the Nazi horrors, Eleanor Roosevelt, Réné…
It’s a Only a Book…
…and you know the one that I’m talking about. It is, after all, the only article on the planet made of little bits of wood pulp, horse hooves, and black drops of dye (die) whose supernatural synergies grant the reader the inalienable right – nay, the duty – to kill anyone who thinks differently than…