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Alice Cooper: Bush supporter, golfer...Bible student

Alice Cooper continues to surprise me. You'd expect someone with his stage show to be a crazy man but the latest revelation about him was a bit of a shocker -- even more than his patronage of Celine Dion shows in Las Vegas: Cooper goes to weekly Bible classes and teaches them on occasion.

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Ethanol is expensive

Just ask anyone who has had to buy food in the last year or so. Canada's C.D. Howe Institute released a new study today which argues that Canadian policies designed to promote ethanol fuel are misguided, that there may be few environmental benefits (I would argue it's bad for the environment) and bloody expensive.

Read the PDF here.

Sharia on the march

The Netherlands may not be a province of Jordan but that isn't stopping the Middle Eastern country from charging a Dutch filmmaker for "blasphemy".

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9/11 redux

A new poll has found that Americans aren't very worried about another terrorist attack on American soil. That's appropriate thinking in a September 10, 2001 word as this blog entry illustrates.

Conservative titan announces deal to renew

Yes, I realize the media world is abuzz with the news...a conservative titan has re-upped and will be back for another go.

No, not the news about Rush Limbaugh, I've decided to renew Enter Stage Right's domain for another year -- so we're officially around until July 15, 2009.

Every year around this time I debate whether I want to do this for another year, close the site down or hand it off to someone else. I won't lie, sometimes this is a burden. There is a lot of work that goes into the web site, both from the fine writers and yours truly.

No real debate this year. We've got a great election down in the U.S., likely one up here in Canada this fall, and the culture war is starting to heat up again. Proud to still be a member of the worldwide conservative army now entering our 13th year!

Veep odds

Traders over at Intrade say that an Obama-Clinton ticket is looking less likely these days while a McCain-Romney ticket is most likely.

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Memo to John McCain: This is how it's done

Rush Limbaugh pointed out rightly on Monday that the National Rifle Association could teach John McCain a lesson or two on going on the attack. Apparently you can see any damned thing about McCain you want and he'll just act all sad and say how disappointed he is.

Not the folks over at the NRA. Hell, you take a shot at them and they'll respond in kind. I hear they know how to shoot.

Anyway, the NRA is planning a $40 million advertising blitz to hold Obama's feet to the fire on Second Amendment issues.

Update - Nice coincidence. Just as I finish this blog entry, Rush mentions this news story and uses the same words I do in my headline. Great minds think alike.

Democrats now love God

Barack Obama is giving John Kerry a run for his money in the flip-flop category these days. The latest example? Barack Obama now loves government funding for faith-based charities. So much so, in fact, that he would radically expand the program.

So for years we've seen Democrats hammer away at faith-based charities. Now we get to see how Democrats and the media spin this as different from George W. Bush is doing.

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Happy Canada Day!

Just wishing all my fellow Canadians a happy Canada Day, eh!

No chance

The Politico reports that the favourite to be John McCain's running mate is none other than Mitt Romney. This is one of the times I can remember a ticket where you'd rather vote for the second banana than the cat actually running for the top job.

So what's the problem? Apparently the McCain camp doesn't care for Romney because of the bitterness during the primaries.

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Depressing findings

Tomorrow is Canada Day, the day we Canadians celebrate our founding and just how cool of a nation we really are. Except it appears we aren't so cool after all. A new study is showing that compared to other nations, Canada is beginning to fall behind on several important metrics.

Read an article summarizing the results or the study overview here.

As you'll see, the marks aren't all that bad (innovation and environment excepted) but the fact that other countries have been passing us by in categories we should be ruling is disappointing. And the finding that we're a more violent society than the U.S. in some respects is shocking.

Let's celebrate tomorrow and then get back to work.

Party of unity still lacks unity

It probably has less to do with Hillary Clinton's loss and more to do with his over-sized ego but it appears Bill Clinton is going to exact a heavy price from Barack Obama for his support. Namely, Obama has to bend over and kiss someone's butt.

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New at Enter Stage Right

This week at Enter Stage Right we discuss a pair of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, defend John McCain, worry about a Barack Obama victory, take a shot at Michelle Obama, show some support for Alaska, take on baseball purists and take both feminists and men's rights advocates to task.

All that and more here.

Another European nation goes mad

The Spanish parliament, after apparently solving every problem and able to devote its time to other issues, wants to extend rights to apes. Yup, you read that right.

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Big Coal to Hansen: Drop dead

Big Coal hasn't taken enviro-wacko James Hansen's doomsday global warming comments lying down. Vic Svec, senior vice president of Peabody, said today that Hansen's comments -- the ones where energy company CEOs should be tried for crimes against "humanity and nature" were offensive and outrageous.

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Rule, Britannia! rule the waves/Britons never will be slaves

Those lines might have been true when Rule, Britannia! was penned three hundred years but these days you wouldn't know it used to be a nation of giants. Latest example: British researchers are working on software with artificial intelligence that will allow the nation's untold CCTV cameras to listen in and flag lawbreakers.

The story mentions that it's only research right now but once Britons weren't spied upon every second of their lives either.

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Climate "scientists" wants debate to end with jailings

James Hansen, the credibility challenged "scientist" who popularized global warming two decades ago as a cause, has today said that oil executives need to be locked up for crimes against humanity.

I'd like to say Hansen is a lone crackpot voice but Canada's David Suzuki also wants to play the role of a gestapo officer and other scientists/propagandists have wanted credentials of deniers stripped, all of which has been covered in this space before.

Read here and here.

New at Enter Stage Right

This week we once again tackle the gas and energy issues, explore film noir and conservatism, tell John McCain who his running mate should be, talk about the economy, discuss China and counterfeiting, offer advice to leftist politicians and defend fathers from the media.

All that and more here.

I'd be more worried about the candidate you have

Some Republicans are apparently worried that former congressman and current Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr could be 2008's Ralph Nader, costing John McCain the presidency by taking just enough votes to matter.

Of course, this wouldn't be a problem had you nominated an actual conservative.

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RINO alert!

Sen. Chuck Hagel has defended his credentials as a conservative many times. How does he underline those credentials? By announcing he'd love to serve as the running mate to Barack Obama, one of the most liberal Democratic nominees of the 20th century. Way to go Chuck.

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Move east young man

If you live in, oh, let's say Prince Edward Island, the Liberals "Green Shift" plan isn't likely bothering you. Hell, you'll likely make money on the deal. Alberta? Well, how would you like to prop up the rest of the nation's economy based on your energy industry?

Neil Waugh argues that "Green Shift" will shaft the province of Alberta with most of the $15 billion in tax revenues eventually coming from there.

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Well said

Canadian PM Stephen Harper must have had his Wheaties this morning because he came out swinging against the Liberal "green shift" plan today.

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No shock there

A scientist says that climate change is an excuse to impose global taxation. I think we posited that on this web site years ago.

Classy

Tim Russert was barely in the ground on Wednesday when the fighting over his plum spot on Meet the Press was being fought over by class acts Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews.

Does Keith win his own Worst Person the World award this week?

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The year of freedom in China

Thank God for the Summer Olympics! The international sporting event is showing the Chinese the error of their ways when it comes to liberty and free speech!

Okay, sorry for the sarcasm. According to activists the communist regime is actually increasing its censorship of the Internet.

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