A British jurist is proposing the establishment of an international tribunal to enforce environmental agreements as well as a broader vision of environmental rights. The proposal is a classic example of the kind of overreaching that has come to define the global climate change movement. (more…)

The latest polls of Republican and all voters indicate that the conservative Republican base favors candidates voters in general do not think too highly of. 

For instance, 24.4% Republican voters want Governor Sarah Palin to be the Republican candidate for president in 2012. Only 13.4% of all voters agree. 

At the same time, Governor Mitt Romney ranks second among all voters, six points behind Palin, but leads among all voters (be it barely). (more…)

Writing for Hurriyet, Muslim columnist Mustafa Akyol expresses anger and frustration with the terrorist attack last week in Mumbai, India, carried out by Muslim extremists.

As Akyol points out, these individuals kill in the name of Islam. By doing so, they disgrace this religion. The far majority of Muslims oppose terrorism and extremism, even fundamentalism (not all the same things), strongly. Akyol is no different.

Yet, his column is important for three reasons:

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Tory leader David Cameron stepped up his attacks against Prime Minister and Labor leader Gordon Brown in recent weeks, after several controversies involving Labor leaders broke out.

After shadow immigration minister Damian Green was arrested, Cameron urged the Prime Minister to speak out against the arrest which he deems purely political.

Writing in News of the World Cameron said: “When it comes to vigorous opposition, if this approach had been in place in the 1990s, then Gordon Brown would have spent most of his time under arrest. (more…)

Chinese President Hu Jintao told his fellow communists that his country was losing its competitive edge and that the worsening financial crisis will push the country’s growth down tremendously in the coming months and year.

Where China’s economy grew with 11.9% last year, it is only expected to do so with 9% this year. That still makes China the fastest growing major economy on earth, but Chinese leaders nonetheless fear that the drop in growth could very well signal a new era. An era in which the Chinese have to struggle, like most others, to grow their economy.| MORE ›

Nobel Prize winner and columnist for the New York TimesPaul Krugman has advocated a new major spending program in recent weeks that would closely resemble the New Deal of President Franklin. D. Roosevelt.

Krugman argues that the New Deal created jobs, improved the country’s economy, and pulled it out a terrible depression.

Writing for the Wall Street JournalAmity Shlaes explains that Krugman’s reasoning isn’t sound. (more…)

The Associated Press notes in one of its latest reports on Senator Hillary Clinton’s future in Barack Obama’s administration that the Obama campaign did its best to ridicule Clinton and her foreign policy credentials during the primaries but that all top advisers and staffers are now suddenly embracing and heralding her as some kind of foreign policy genius.

The report, which is more an opinion piece than anything else, points out that Obamites blasted Clinton only a few months ago. (more…)

When an 8-year old German boy disrupted a lesson, his teacher banned him from the class. The boy was not very happy with the decision and later stole his teacher’s car keys. Next, he went to her car, opened it, started it, and drove it into another car standing in the parking lot.

That should teach you a valuable lesson dear teacher!

Police said the boy told them he wanted to drive the car home to complain to his mother about the teacher sending him out of class. (more…)

The Mumbai massacre perpetrated by IslamoFascist monsters targeted Britons, Americans and Jews. The News media are reporting 174 dead and hundreds of wounded, including the husband and wife who run the Mumbai Beis Chabad. They were a young, energetic couple engaging in Jewish outreach and drug rehabilitation.| MORE ›

According to recent reports, several Muslims from Britain were involved in the terror plot in Mumbai, India, in which at least 155 people were killed this week. 

Indian sources say that eight terrorists were taken captive by commandos who stormed the Taj Mahal Hotel and center for Orthodox Jews in Mumbai, two of whom were Pakistanis living in Britain.

According to the Daily Mail, as many as seven of the terrorists may have been from Britain. They could very well be from the same cities, Leeds and Bradford, as the extremists who gave Britain its own 9/11, namely 7/7.| MORE ›