Joseph Farah

"U.S. taxpayers will shell out a minimum of $550 million on direct financial support to the inept, corrupt and bloodstained government of the Palestinian Authority this year".

Oil: Interactive map.........................FT

Crime beat

"But more troubling to the average citizen is that shootings in public places have increased by 35 per cent over last year. Instead of gangsters zeroing in on targets in their homes, the attacks are more frequently taking place on crowded city streets, in restaurants and in parks where people walk their dogs."

National Oil Companies control 94% of World's Reserves........................Powerline

Fred Barnes- Put the do-nothing Democratic Congress on the spot. ........Weekly Standard

The Fall of Lebanon........................AmThinker

Global Warming.................no man made global warming there though..... Hot Air

The Sun

"Report on NAFTA leak lays blame on Foreign Affairs"

A Lesson for Obama.....................Powerline

Gen. Petraeus...........takes the hill

"Muslim author's book calls on Canadians to condemn Islamists"....Calgary Herald

Crime beat..........laundering

Ezra Levant on panel at Canadian Association of Journalists'conference this afternoon

May be televised on CPAC.ca at 4:00pm ET, 2:00pm MT



More here

George Jonas has more on human rights

Diane Francis:" Collapse of Shabby Deal"

"It also is the beginning of the end of one of the most shabbily proposed business transactions in Canada's history. This case involves the trampling of rights by BCE regarding its debenture holders, who hold $5-billion of units. But other victims included pensioners with the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, whose pension authorities allowed their plan to exceed 30% ownership in an overleveraged deal. And rank-and-file BCE employees who were asked to make financial sacrifices by a management and board that stands to enrich themselves by millions".

CBC Funding............

Salim Mansur

Sunlight Foundation.....................IBD

Oil