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1. Ann Coulter unplugged. The conservative provocateur mocked gay men last night, saying there are two things they can’t do – “get married to each other” (they can in Canada and some American states) and “throw a baseball without looking like a girl.” The university provost a letter cautioning her to be aware of “what is acceptable in Canada,” noting that “promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate but could in fact lead to criminal charges.” Ms. Coulter, meanwhile, spoke last night at the University of Western Ontario. All long blonde hair and heavily-mascaraed lashes,...

Following news of the arrest last week of Mohammad Shafia, his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their 18-year old son, Hamed, for the alleged murder of four female family members, a case exhibiting several earmarks of a culturally motivated crime, I steeled myself for the usual media scramble to deplore all acts of “domestic violence.....” Liberals deliberately conflate domestic violence with honour killing because they feel that making any distinction would “racialize” the crimes, indicting a whole culture. But in order to avoid offending the minority communities in which honour killings occur, they must then “genderize” the practice by force-fitting...

Friday, Jul 24 Man Bites Dog: U.S. Navy Commander Files Sex Complaint Against Female Miami Herald Journo FishbowlDC Exclusive: US Navy Commander Jeffrey D. Gordon has filed a sexual harassment complaint against the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg. FishbowlDC obtained a copy of the July 22, 2009 letter addressed to Miami Herald Senior VP and Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal. In the complaint, Gordon calls for a "thorough investigation" to put an end to Rosenberg's "appalling behavior" that includes comments about the Commander's sexual orientation. The complaint outlines examples of Rosenberg's alleged "abusive and degrading, comments of an explicitly sexual nature." Gordon...

Let us be clear: Britain is facing an unprecedented crisis. Before long, we will lose 40 per cent of our generating capacity. And unless we come up quickly with an alternative, the lights WILL go out. Not before time, the Confederation of British Industry yesterday waded in, warning the Government it must abandon its crazy fixation with wind turbines as a way of plugging this forthcoming shortfall and instead urgently focus on far more efficient ways to meet the threat of a permanent, nationwide black-out. There are a few contenders for the title of the maddest thing that has happened...

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. — An animal rights group has tried – and failed – to run a newspaper ad comparing the beheading of a passenger on a Greyhound bus last week to the treatment of animals by the meat industry. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, said on its website it would run the ad in the Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic. However, city editor Tara Seel said the newspaper had no intention of running the ad, which uses imagery of “an innocent victim's throat” being cut, in reference to the slaughter of cows, chickens and...

What's wrong, officer?' Associated Press January 29, 2008 at 1:36 AM EST ADRIAN, MICH. — A Michigan man was charged with drunken driving after drinking two bottles of wine, cutting through a snowstorm on his lawn mower and riding down the centre of the street to reach a liquor store, authorities said. Police found Frank Kozumplik, 49, homeward bound on a John Deere tractor Saturday night, toting four bottles of wine in a paper bag, officials said. He told officers his wife had taken their car to work and the mower was the only way he could reach the store,...

Dad charged in daughter's death Chris Wattie , National Post Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 TORONTO - A Mississauga, Ont. cab driver has been charged with the murder of his 16-year-old daughter, who was attacked in the family home after clashing with her strict Muslim family over whether or not to wear the hijab, the traditional Islamic head scarf for women. Muhammad Parvez, 57, was charged after his daughter Aqsa Parvez died in hospital late Monday. The victim's older brother Waqas Parvez, was charged with obstructing police in connection with the girl's death. Aqsa Parvez. Aqsa Parvez. Ebonie Mitchell Email...

Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007 Chinese sailors' Aegis ship tour ruled out Kyodo News The Maritime Self-Defense Force considered showing off a high-tech Aegis vessel to the crew of a Chinese warship, which made a historic port call to Japan on Wednesday, but scrubbed the plan because it could anger the United States, ministry sources said Friday. The MSDF had initially planned to show the Aegis destroyer Kirishima to the crew of the Chinese missile destroyer Shenzhen but changed the plan Thursday to a visit to the supply ship Tokiwa. The tour took place Friday morning at the MSDF base in...

Law enforcement officials in Vermont yesterday revealed 11 people had been indicted or arrested for their alleged involvement in two human smuggling rings that illegally transported hundreds of people into the United States from Canada. Europe * One of the groups, led by a husband and wife in Ontario, allegedly smuggled hundreds of undocumented workers from South Korea, charging up to $10,000 per person. The second group, known as the Galdamez Organization, smuggled people from Pakistan, India, and Central and South America. Thomas Anderson, US Attorney for the DThe alleged ringleaders, Chol Min Jang, 49, and Sal Sung Jang, also...

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Immigrants wishing to live in the small Canadian town of Herouxville, Quebec, must not stone women to death in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules released by the local council. The declaration, published on the town's Web site, has deepened tensions in the predominantly French-speaking province over how tolerant Quebecers should be toward the customs and traditions of immigrants. "We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated...

By PETER CHENEY Saturday, December 17, 2005 Posted at 2:15 AM EST From Saturday's Globe and Mail   A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step — and so it was that law professor Susan Drummond's long, strange trip into the world of wireless security, where she learned that a terrorist organization had appropriated Ted Rogers' cellphone number, was launched by the arrival of a phone bill for $12,237.60. Ms. Drummond, who had just returned from a month-long trip to Israel, went numb as she looked at the stupefying figure, which was more than 160 times higher...

This week's high-profile snub by President George W. Bush may be just the beginning. Washington sources speculate that Canada's membership in the prestigious G8 economic club may be handed over to Spain, a member of Washington's coalition of the willing. After all, Canada has only been a member at the pleasure of the United States in order to help reduce the number of votes held by European nations. Meanwhile, another American ally, Australia, is busily negotiating its own free trade deal with the United States, an agreement that Canada and Mexico may or may not be invited to join....

Bush visit cancelled Canadian Press E-mail this Article Print this Article Photo: Jonathan Hayward/CP The Prime Minister and his wife Aline walk past an honour guard Sunday on their arrival in Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo — Prime Minister Jean Chrétien confirmed Sunday that U.S. President George W. Bush has cancelled his planned May visit to Ottawa because of the Iraqi crisis. However, the Prime Minister did not indicate whether he thought the cancellation was a result of Ottawa's refusal to support the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq without United Nations approval. Mr. Chrétien told reporters on his arrival for a 10-day...

Canada would not hand Iraqi leader to U.S. Orders from Ottawa in case of capture Robert Fife, Ottawa Bureau Chief National Post Wednesday, April 09, 2003 ADVERTISEMENT OTTAWA - The Canadian in command of a multinational naval task force in the Persian Gulf said yesterday that the federal government has ordered him not to hand over any Iraqis he captures to the United States, including even Saddam Hussein and his two sons. Commodore Roger Girouard, the head of the nine-nation Task Force 151, said Ottawa has said he is allowed to turn over any al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists to U.S....

So much for containment Mark Steyn National Post Thursday, April 03, 2003 ADVERTISEMENT Following the splendid example of the late Saddam Hussein and his recent Iraqi TV appearances, I've decided not to bother with new material and to rely instead on a lot of mouldering old footage from the archives. Here's one I made earlier, from The Spectator, December 28th 2002: "I'm one of those who believe that the actual war with Iraq will be over in nothing flat -- i.e., the proverbial cakewalk." Whoops. That can't be right, can it? Everyone knows it's a Vietnam-style quagmire, in which the...

  I recommend that all Freepers that a hour and listen to this audio feed of Rick Wiles..... http://www.americanfreedomnews.com/archives/audio_archives/audio_files/afn01-10-03.ram

NZ migrant rules challenged From correspondents in Wellington December 23, 2002 IMMIGRATION consultancies have launched a legal challenge against new rules to cut back New Zealand's migrant intake. The Association for Migration and Investment filed proceedings in the High Court against a tougher English-language test introduced by the government in November. Immigration Minister Liane Dazzle said last month that the new language requirement would help reduce immigration to the government's target of 45,000 people in the year to June 30, 2003, from 53,000 the previous year. Migration association chairman Bill Milnes said 20,000 people already in the process of applying...

AP) - A civic leader in the Yemeni community where six men are accused of belonging to an al-Qaida terror cell was arrested Tuesday afternoon, and published reports said he would be charged with illegally sending $3 million to Yemen. Mohammed Albanna, the uncle of one of the ``Lackawanna Six," was arrested by federal customs and drug enforcement agents in the doorway of his Buffalo store, the Queen City Cigarettes and Candy Company. Asked if he was guilty of anything, Albanna said: ``Not at all." He said he would issue a comment later in the day. He was led away...

Native leader defends HitlerOrder of Canada member: Calls Jews 'disease' and says Nazis were right to 'fry' themLes Perreaux National Post, with files from Southam News Monday, December 16, 2002CREDIT: Bill Keay, The Vancouver Sun Native leader David Ahenakew has been accused of racism after remarks he made on Friday. The Canadian Jewish Congress is calling on members of the Order of Canada to mobilize against a fellow member, a First Nations leader who said Jewish people are a disease and Hitler was right when he ''fried'' six million Jews.David Ahenakew, the former chief of the Assembly of First Nations...