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Open fire

It's been awhile since I heard anything about the idiotic Code Pink protest at the Marine Corps recruiting office in Berkeley, California. Well, the latest news is that the group wants people to show up as witches to cast spells...or something. Frankly I was laughing at how stupid the political anti-war left has become. Say what you will about the anti-war right, at least they muster impressive intellectual arguments to make their case.

Read on.

It's just dead black people anyway

I've long raised eyebrows for contending that the environmentalist movement is the most racist on the planet.

It was the environmentalist campaign against DDT which resulted in the deaths of millions due to malaria. It is the environmentalist movement which wants untold trillions spent "combating" climate change while a tiny fraction of that amount would provide clean drinking water to every person on earth, saving millions. It is the environmentalist campaign against genetically modified foods which has prevented Africans from enjoying the benefits of things like Golden Rice. It is the environmentalist movement which campaigns against industry in the inner city, dooming their residents to under employment and poverty.

I could go on. No really, I had to cut a lot to avoid being monotonous. This cartoon captures everything I said so much more elegantly.

It's because we're not miserable bastards

A new study argues that conservatives are happier than liberals because we can rationalize social and economic inequalities.

No, it's because we don't hate ourselves.

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The canon takes another hit

It has long been argued by global warming proponents that ice levels are shrinking -- proof that we need to return to 17th century civilization. Well, except that it may be yet one more thing they're wrong about.

Well, everyone knows conservatives are rich

Judging by the number of phone calls I've received by the Conservative Party asking for money, I thought we on the right were in trouble. Turns out I was worrying for nothing. Reports filed with Elections Canada shows that the Tories raised four times as much money as the Liberals did during the first three months of this year. Heck, even the socialist NDP raised more money.

Moreover, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion can't seem to pay the huge debt he amassed in capturing the "prize" of leading the opposition party.

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No to tax cuts, Jeremiah Wright turns superdelegate to Obama

Only in the Democratic Party. Former DNC chairman and current superdelegate Joe Andrew says he's switching from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama. Why? Because Barack is opposed to a national gas tax holiday and how "skillfully" he handled the Jeremiah Wright controversy.

So, in a nutshell: Wanting you to continue paying higher prices for gas and Obama's lies about Wright earned the nominee a superdelegate.

God, not again...

The epic saga to replace Canada's fleet of aging Seaking helicopters -- the same ones that have crashed or lost power in mid-flight because they're so freaking old -- has taken a new twist. The military friendly government of Stephen Harper is considering the possibility of canceling the contract with Sikorsky to cancel the $5 billion Cyclone contract because the company is asking for an extra $250-$500 million and a two-year delay due to special engines needed to meet our requirements.

Canadians will of course remember that the Mulroney government of the early 1990s placed an order to replace the already then ancient Seaking, a deal later canceled by the Chretien regime which resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties. Now once again our military may have to continue risking their lives merely flying their choppers.

Read on.

Better not tell Al Gore

Some scientists have announced that global warming may stop until 2015 because of natural variations in the climate.

Wait, I thought global warming was a man made issue?

Don't worry, you never heard them, remember?

Barack Obama, who spent two decades in Jeremiah Wright's church and heard nothing controversial, is angry today due to Wright's declaration that attacking the pastor is attacking all black churches.

Oh yeah, and whitey invented AIDS to kill black people. I am beginning to believe that Rush Limbaugh is...err...right, that Wright is attempting to sabotage Obama's campaign to "prove" American racism.

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New at Enter Stage Right

This week we ask some serious questions about Barack Obama, praise Ben Stein, explain who is at fault for gas prices, urge more money be spent on the military, wag our finger at Newt Gingrich and compare the entrepreneurial spirit of Canada and the U.S.

All that and more here.

Watch what you say

The U.S. government has issued a guide for employees when discussing terrorism. You can't use the words "jihad" or "mujahadeen" and it's preferred you call members of al-Qaida "violent extremists" and "terrorists." Why? Apparently they want to remove religion from the debate.

Que?

I'm no expert on terrorism but if I remember correctly, the members of al-Qaida declared a religious war against the West. They want to destroy the West because we're predominantly Christian -- allegedly anyway, they want a purified Islam and they want to return to a fictional tribal past where religion is the only thing. Sounds to me like al-Qaida brought religion into the war, not us.

Does the U.S. government really believe that if they stop referring to religion, that prospective recruits among Islamofascists -- another verboten word by the way -- will forget that religion is their primary motivation and al-Qaida will suddenly lose credibility?

Almost as bad as Berkeley

Amherst, Mass. is one of those cities you hear a lot about when it comes to politics and rarely anything good. Examples here, here and here, among other stories you can search for. Well, the city has made the news again.

Seems people were displeased that the annual Fourth of July parade, organized by a private group, disallowed people from making anti-American statements during the procession. To rectify that, the city has decided to take control of the parade and will allow every anti-American crackpot to participate during an event designated to celebrate the nation.

I am truly beginning to believe that al-Qaida is less of a danger to America than many Americans are.

It's everywhere

John Hawkins has an interesting interview up with Carol Platt Liebau about her book, Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!).

Read on.

Canada remains serious about terrorist threats

The CBC reports that a man linked to al-Qaida -- an entity that has declared war on Canada -- managed to get a visa to live in Canada. The good news? He was arrested when he arrived to Canada and deported back to England.

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Our old friend is returning

I've just finished reading for review Robert Kagan's new book The Return of History and the End of Dreams in which he argues that the 21st century will be defined by the struggle between democracy and autocracy. The former will be defined by nations like Canada, the U.S., Britain, Japan and India while the later will be made up of China, Russia, Iran.

Well, Russia is doing nothing to prove that it isn't becoming a competitive and aggressive autocracy. The latest development is the government's attempt to introduce Chinese style censorship on the Internet in an attempt to ban "extremist" content. As this news story points out, that has been a pretty broad category since the rise of Vladimir Putin.

Enter Stage Right was reportedly among the myriad web sites banned by the Chinese government some years back and I guess our Russian fans will very soon have to employ some trickery to keep reading.

I'd take one in green

Al Gore has been making a lot of money off the environmentalism movement so if you're fooled by this I completely understand. The People's Cube are reporting on a new invention developed by the former veep called the Gaia Hat. It's purpose? It cools the Earth by deflecting sunlight back into space.

Hey, I laughed.

We're shocked

Barack Obama has come out opposed to a gas tax holiday proposed by John McCain.

Now if Obama had opposed the holiday on the grounds that the amount of revenue lost should be offset by an equal cut in spending I'd probably applaud him. His reason? It didn't save consumers enough money. Yeah, right.

Environmentalism needs scripture...even if made up

If you've been reading this blog for any length of time you know that I've been referring to environmentalism as a religion -- not that I'm the only one. Like any religion it needs scripture. Nancy Pelosi feels so as well so on Earth Day she quoted some Bible scripture in support of environmentalism.

Problem?

No one can actually find her passage in any Bible.

Read on.

New at Enter Stage Right

In honour of Earth Day tomorrow we launch several broadsides against environmentalism, take some shots at the Democrats, talk with Alfred Regnery, urge conservatives to take the long view, explain the American political system to Americans, note the venom coming from the political left and warn against universal health care.

Read on.

How dare they ask him questions!

Apparently daring to ask Barack Obama a question isn't a wise move. Following last week's debate where Obama and Hillary Clinton were asked some tough questions by the moderators, Obama supporters protested in front of ABC this weekend.

Yes, that is correct. They are protesting the fact that ABC's moderators asked tough questions.

All ideas are welcome in universities...provided they're leftist ideas

Robert Bidinotto has a good blog up about liberal outrage over a business funding the use of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged in university classrooms.

This shouldn't be a surprise of course. As any campus conservative activist -- such as yours truly back in the day -- can tell you, campus liberals, which includes faculty as well as students -- will attack vociferously anything that challenges their world view. Worse is if you dare to publicly challenge that world view.

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Good news

Despite all the news stories crowing about America's alleged environmentalist awakening, a new poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose an expansion of the Clean Water Act.

The legislation would effectively give the feds the power to regulate virtually any land that has water on it, something that should terrify Americans given the low respect that property rights have had lately.

54% of those with an opinion opposed the measure, while 46% favor it. Among political independents, opposition was higher -- 56% opposed, 44% in support.

More here.

Barack in his own words

Well, not just Barack Obama. John Hawkins has compiled a list of quotes from Jeremiah Wright, Barack and Michelle Obama. Ugly stuff.

A true loss

As you may have heard, Canada's chief of defense staff Gen. Rick Hillier is stepping down as of July.

Unlike most time servers, Hillier was truly a friend of the rank and file and managed to be a thorn in the side of both the Conservatives for telling the truth about how long the Afghanistan mission would last and the Liberals for blasting their years of defense funding.

I've talked to a few of our nation's soldiers and to a man they all praise Hillier as a general who care about the soldiers under his command and fought for them every chance he got.

You will be missed, sir.

Oh right, Ferraro was white

BET founder and billionaire businessman Bob Johnson said yesterday that Barack Obama is only the Democratic front runner because he's black.

Sound familiar?

I wonder what the difference between Johnson and Geraldine Ferraro is.