Crime beat- Shots fired at jewel heist

Rush Limbaugh- Kyoto Accord fell apart

"The Kyoto accord fell apart. Have you noticed the Drive-By Media is not talking about what happened in the G8? They drove right on by. They didn't stop, they didn't report, and do you have any idea why? Because Putin had his lunch handed to him by George W. Bush, and so did the Kyoto accord. The Kyoto accord standards were supposed to go into effect in 2012 and the nations that have signed it said, "All right, we'll move it back to 2050." Well, wait a minute f this is so serious, if we're on the cusp of destroying ourselves, how can we wait 'til 2050? It just got blown away. So while reason is asserting itself in a number of places, people who live in Denver are not going to put up with this. It is just hilarious and absurd at the same time to believe that cities, individual cities of people can affect the climate, can affect the weather. It's not possible. We don't have this kind of power. Now, if somebody wants to say, "Well, Rush, they're just trying to clean things up out there, less pollution." Well, fine, but it's still ridiculous. But they're not saying it to clean up pollution. They're doing it to reduce carbon dioxide footprints and to affect the climate. This is audacious in its arrogance and conceit."

Video of Dennis Miller ripping Harry Read....you might want to bookmark it for future ref............via Hot Air

Melanie Phillips- Reason fights back........Global Warming

Rachel Ehrenfeld- Why I won't be silenced

TWo years to charge Re. William Jefferson?.....Andrew McCarthy

"But let’s put that aside for a moment. There is nothing complicated about the obstruction of a search warrant, especially when the suspect does it right under an FBI agent’s nose and gets caught red-handed. You don’t continue to investigate that for two years. You get out the handcuffs right there and then. You place him under arrest and you prosecute him.

If the rest of your case isn’t ready yet, fine, keep investigating until it’s ready. Nothing says you can’t try a suspect twice as long as the charges are different. Arresting Jefferson for obstructing the search would have been no impediment to a later prosecution for the remaining array of offenses. But you don’t leave a crooked congressman at liberty when he commits an easy-to-prove corruption crime right before your very eyes -- a crime you were able to witness precisely because you already had so much corruption evidence that a judge gave you a warrant to search his home. And you especially don’t leave him at liberty for nearly two years -- two years during which he sullied congress, acted in the name of the American people and, for the last several months, had access to sensitive national defense information.........

In a nutshell, by August 3, 2005, there appears to have been overwhelming evidence that Jefferson had solicited bribes, been involved in a fraudulent scheme, perhaps violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and obstructed the execution of a court-authorized search warrant. An indictment focusing just on that behavior would have exposed the then-58-year-old congressman to the potential of several years in the slammer. "

Porkbusters update...............................via Instapundit

MEMRI....Al-Jazeera Criticized for Once Again Acting as 'Official Spokesman for Fundamentalist Groups... As It Did in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine'

Recycling $70/barrel oil costs or $3.30/gal

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Restoring the Mounties good name...............

"Perhaps they could also look at the underfunding and understaffing via the "Program Renewal"( more like Program Destruction) in the 90's and the loss of valuable senior investigators.

They might also want to look at the extra demands of the Charter without a corresponding increase in manpower to keep up with it and why dedicated officers like Staff Sgt Stenhouse and Cpl Read were turfed while trying to protect Canadians and why major criminal organizations are operating quite freely? You might want to also find out why the Mounties are being blamed for not doing enough to prevent the Air India bombing but today, if they try to take preventive measures against potential terrorists, they are violating a person's rights? It's nice to be an armchair quarterback when in some cases they have seconds or minutes to react.Do you want them to prevent an attack or not? Terrorists don't walk around with neon signs over their heads saying "I'm a terrorist". They have to do investigative work and while they may not have 100% of the info they need, someone needs to make the final decision if they only have 70-80-90% of the information.If they err on the side of prevention, they get criticized. This is not a game . There are bad people out there and there are bad people out there who would like to kill as many people as possible and not think anything about any consequences.

If you want an inquiry then by all means make sure you cover all the bases not just selective ones.Of course while they are trying to set the organizaation back on the right course- senior Officers will be tied up for 3 years dealing with hearings and getting documents.

You need a very capable Commissioner with very capable Deputy Commissioners to clean house.When senior investigators need backing , they should get it instead of covering things up and making them worse and punishing the whistleblowers- a word most don't like since they were just trying to do their jobs but were stonewalled.Too bad the media weren't awake during the Liberal tenure.The problems didn't start last year.When did Cpl. Robert Read run into problems- in the 90's.
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Deterring Iran- ...........Louis Rene Beres and Isaac Ben-Israel

UN- same old , same old

"U.N. officials deny that either of two internal investigations exonerated Bahel but acknowledged that their first probe was not "thorough enough."
A second investigation by a newly created procurement task force produced an 86-page dossier on complex transactions involving at least two Indian-owned companies and was forwarded to the federal prosecutor's office for the Southern District of New York.
Inga-Britt Ahlenius, head of the U.N. watchdog office, was hard-pressed to explain why the first investigation did not point to any wrongdoing in Bahel's unit."

"Tories say they've gone 'way beyond' all others in last 10 to 20 years on reforms" ...HillTimes

"Chief Government Whip Jay Hill (Prince George-Peace River, B.C.) said that the government has brought in numerous initiatives that keep its promise to make democratic reforms.

"Take a look back at the 14 years that I've been here and how little-to-nothing successive Liberal governments did in the realm of democratic reform, changes to the system, and then look at what we've endeavoured to do and what we've brought forward in less than a year-and-a-half of government whether it's fixed election dates, whether it's allowing for democratic selection of Senators, whether it's trying to encourage more access to voting by having additional advanced voting days, whether it's our move to more fully recognize our shift in population in the fastest growing provinces, Alberta, B.C., Ontario, being recognized in Bill C-56 for additional seats which they're not under the present formula," Mr. Hill said. "You go down the list and what we have brought forward for debate in our democratic institutions themselves is, very, I would argue, substantive and way beyond anything that we've seen in the last decade or two and I would challenge anyone to put forward what other governments have done in the past in that area. We've been here 16 months."