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The RINOHunters PAC hereby announces that the following Republican Senator, being among the Republicans least aligned with basic common sense, does not deserve further election to any office above dog catcher--and even that is debatable. As pointed out by many activists and bloggers, most notably Michelle Malkin, John Sidney McCain is a bane to the existence of all conservatives and an albatross around the necks of all Republicans. The reasons for our focus on this RINO are known far and wide, but we try to never miss an opportunity to remind our fellow common sense Americans just how bad these...

Live Earth? How about live irony? By Rex Murphy Toronto Globe and Mail Saturday, July 14, 2007 – Page A23 The reviews are in concerning last weekend's eco-sanctimony staged by global warming's Nostradamus, Al Gore, and most of them aren't pretty. It was, according to the advance hype - and the hype for this event matched anything Hollywood roars up for Johnny Depp in a bandana, or a new Jessica Simpson big-screen onslaught - going to command an audience in excess of two billion. There is nothing original in rounding up a beaker full of rock stars and movie...

Hypocrisy takes the stage Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 EDMONTON -The '80s band The Police brought their reunion tour to Commonwealth Stadium in early June. Two nights before their concert I had occasion to visit the venue, and when I pulled into the parking lot I thought I had stumbled onto a new-truck show. Really. There were 16 to 20 gleaming semis all lined up, as if for viewing-- with matching trailers. Only when I saw the name of the Chicago-based tour production company on the doors of the cabs did I twig to the...

What the ice tells us, 'experts' don't care to hear David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Saturday, July 07, 2007 Surely summertime is the best time to think about ice caps. And it is certainly summertime again up here in the northern hemisphere. Down there in the southern, I have noticed from passing weather reports, new cold records have been set in sundry locations in Patagonia, South Africa, Australia -- just as the "global warming" scare is peaking. My reader will of course realize it is winter down there, and winter is when cold records tend to be set....

Al Gore: my favourite Martian Peter Foster, Financial Post Published: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids In fact it's cold as hell?" --Elton John, Rocket Man Elton John won't be performing at next Saturday's Live Earth series of concerts, reportedly the biggest "charitable" music event ever. However, like his Rocket Man, the concerts' main promoter, Al Gore, has invoked life -- or rather its absence -- on another planet as relevant to our situation on earth. In a piece in last Sunday's New York Times, Mr. Gore suggested that Venus is...

Ontario to distribute Gore's film to schools AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH Mike De Souza And Melissa Leong, CanWest News Service; National Post Published: Thursday, June 28, 2007 OTTAWA - Ontario will be distributing hundreds of donated copies of Al Gore's controversial documentary on climate change to public schools across the province. But Kathleen Wynne, Ontario's Minister of Education, said the government's actions are not an endorsement of the film, An Inconvenient Truth. "It's just a resource that will be available. The teachers can choose to use it or not," she said of the gift from the Tides Canada Foundation. A...

CHINA TOPS U.S. AS NO. 1 POLLUTER Calls for West to assist Beijing to find cleaner ways to deal with economic boom; The Daily Telegraph, with files from news services Richard Spencer, National Post Published: Thursday, June 21, 2007 BEIJING - China and the West are under increased pressure to change economic course after a new study showed Asia's rising power had become the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, the key greenhouse gas. Until recently, China was expected to remain behind the United States in the emissions table until 2010, but its booming economy and surging demand for...

Oilsands gain a dirty name Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post Published: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 Forget Canada's image as a source of secure energy to the United States. That was a couple of years ago, when the flavours of the day south of the border were indignation over soaring gasoline prices, while dependence on Middle East oil was the root of all evil, including the war in Iraq. Now that Hollywood actors are buying carbon offsets to feel even better about their air-conditioned mansions and private jets, Canada is held in contempt for being the source of the dirtiest oil...

This is why people hate Toronto No, not the new ROM - but the pretentious, self-parodic ceremony that launched it Robert Fulford, National Post Published: Saturday, June 09, 2007 TORONTO -The temporary bleachers have long since been cleared away but Torontonians who attended the opening of the Royal Ontario Museum's (ROM) new addition last Saturday night are still trying to forget. It was an occasion to delight those who despise the pretensions of Toronto. No doubt they will savour, till their dying days, how dreadful it was. But we who love Toronto hope we can (as mourners are advised...

Greenhouse grandstanding just a bunch of hot air David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Saturday, June 02, 2007 Every politician eventually enjoys his 15 minutes of media popularity, and this last week U.S. President George W. Bush got his. All he had to do for it was propose that the world's 15 major producers of industrial pollution -- recently redefined to include carbon dioxide, which is not a pollutant but one of the basic conditions for life -- should meet to decide upon emissions targets. What a brilliant idea. (Irony icon.) This will not happen at Heiligendamm, ye olde...

Gore's assault on reason Peter Foster, Financial Post Published: Friday, June 01, 2007 The title of Al Gore's latest book, The Assault on Reason, says it all. Illogicalities, non sequiturs, false analogies, fallacies, ad hominem (or rather ad Exxoninem) arguments all tumble forth in profusion from its pages. But one's Spidey sense feels that something sinister lurks beneath the noble words and the plethora of quotations from Great Men. The book has one obvious target, but isn't piling on to George Bush a little like flogging a dead duck? Dubya has certainly had his share of issues. In particular,...

Al Gore's Vulcan Utopia David Brooks, National Post, page A21 Published: Thursday, May 31, 2007 If you're going to read Al Gore's book, you're going to have to steel yourself for a parade of sentences like the following: "The remedy for what ails our democracy is not simply better education (as important as that is) or civic education (as important as that can be), but the re-establishment of a genuine democratic discourse in which individuals can participate in a meaningful way - a conversation of democracy in which meritorious ideas and opinions from individuals do, in fact, evoke a...

Carson's toxic legacy Her book Silent Spring is a case study in the tragedy of good intentions Margaret Wente Toronto Globe and Mail Thursday, May 24, 2007 I was 12 when I read Rachel Carson's newly published book, Silent Spring, in 1962. Although I'd never heard the term "environmentalist," she turned me into one. I didn't understand the complicated science in it. But I was horrified by her evocation of a natural world whose creatures were being wiped out by man-made poisons - the silent spring, where no birds sang. In school, I wrote an essay praising Silent Spring,...

The eco-joke is on Hollywood By Rex Murphy Toronto Globe and Mail Saturday, May 19, 2007 – Page A21 Jay Leno is not a global warming skeptic. The blandly humorous host of The Tonight Show is at one with the Hollywood ethos wherein no fashionable cause can fail to be embraced. Entertainers and those who feed most directly off them may not be climatologists, but they are wonderfully precise barometers of what is hip and trendy. Thus Vanity Fair magazine put out its "green issue" last month. Vanity Fair could offer reasonable competition to Vogue as being the slickest,...

Sun of a gun By Licia Corbella Calgary Sun Friday, May 18, 2007 A few weeks ago in a column I wrote about David Suzuki's rudeness and hypocrisy I admitted that similar to that green guru, I too love this planet and try to have as small a negative environmental impact as possible but unlike him, I don't believe that human-made CO2 is the main driver of global warming. I received hundreds of e-mails -- most recounting often hilarious stories of run-ins people had with Suzuki, finding out for themselves that his TV persona is a lot friendlier than...

Send in the assmonkeys Behold the latest environmentalist fad: going childless Jonathan Kay, National Post Published: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Last Tuesday, I wrote a column for this space entitled "At a restaurant near you, the war between Daters and Breeders." It was one of those airy, self-indulgent pieces of cultural commentary that otherwise self-important op-ed pundits publish every few months to "show their human side." (See: I eat in restaurants with my kids --just like you!) My basic point was that restaurant diners shouldn't go hard on parents whose kids emit the odd yelp at dinner time. I...

The Third World mocks our green agenda Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Monday, May 14, 2007 Quite rightly, much has been made of the United Nations' bizarre decision to place Zimbabwe's environment minister at the head of its Council on Sustainable Development (CSD). But what has been missed in the coverage of last week's CSD meetings is the UN's utter inability to convince developing nations to join the industrialized world in curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Without such an agreement, emissions savings by developed nations will be completed swamped by increasing emissions from developing nations long before the Kyoto accords...

Anarchist leaker covets disorder By Ezra Levant Calgary Sun Monday, May 14, 2007 Jeff Monaghan, a communications worker in the federal environment department, was arrested last week in connection with an illegal leak of a confidential draft of the government's policy on Kyoto. Monaghan has not been charged with anything, but he has been fired from his job and he has not denied leaking the document. Leaking government secrets can be more than just a political embarrassment. If government announcements are known before they are officially made public, it grants an advantage to anyone looking to take advantage of...

Why can May mix pulpit, Parliament? If a Conservative politician had said what she said, the media would have pounced Lorne Gunter, The Edmonton Journal Published: Friday, May 04, 2007 "We have a moral obligation to our Lord and Father to ensure we don't destroy the creation that was given to us. Through the power of our Lord and Jesus Christ, we can meet this moral obligation." Who said that, some pro-life zealot railing against abortion? Some Evangelical Christian who fails to recognize the separation of church and state? A Conservative politician with a hidden agenda to enslave us...

Y2Kyoto: Al Gore Strikes A Blow For Intelligent Design A global warming disciple was troubled by the Goracle's presentation in Regina; The slide I found particularly interesting/shocking/sad, was his new(?) slide containing a graph of human population growth over the past couple hundred-thousand years. It started off good. He pointed at the beginning of the graph, showing the population of humans on Earth from 200,000 years ago, and referred to the “rise of humans." Cool beans. So he believes that Homo sapiens evolved from other hominid ancestors, right? Nope. In the very same breath, he then continued to explain...