Newsbeat 1: 04/23/08

MArk Steyn.....helping out the Freedom Five with a book sale......all day today

Newer post below

Global warming..."Think it possible you may be mistaken

"In 1987 I became a columnist on the Guardian, where I had worked for the previous ten years in a variety of roles. During that decade, I had never challenged left-wing orthodoxy and was thus considered to be a favoured daughter of progressivism. In my second column for the paper, however, I wrote that the crisis in education standards was not the fault of the evil Margaret Thatcher’s ‘cuts’ but what children were actually being taught in the schools, where something very damaging had clearly taken hold. I wrote that because it was what I had seen and believed to be true. Overnight I became an un-person. Why had I suddenly moved to the right? What on earth had happened to me? How could I write this nasty right-wing rubbish? Had I taken leave of my senses??!! It’s been the sunlit uplands ever since. As I ploughed on over the subsequent two decades through issues such as family breakdown, gender roles, drug abuse, victim culture, multiculturalism, national identity and then in the past seven years, Israel, America, Iraq and Islamism I moved from being right-wing to far-right to ultra-right to clinically insane to far-right lunatic Zionist Jew."

Chantal Hebert ...."Much is at Stake for Elections Canada"

"One way or another, having taken a very public shot at the Conservative net last week, Canada's election referee is in the awkward position of having a stake in the outcome of the next federal campaign".