Intellectual Conservative

Posted on: Intellectual Conservative
(23 January, 2009)

Heading: History: 30 Riveting Facts

Excerpt:

My. Did slave ships fly over the
North, to land in the South?
Pastor Rick Warren believes we
need to say sorry to Islamokingdoms
for the Christian Crusades – but are
the facts on his side? And, how
vegetarian is your local supermarket-
shopping vegetarian?

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American Thinker Blog

Posted on: American Thinker
(January 18, 2009)

Heading: Jimmy Carter in 1976:
"The world has only enough oil to
last about 30 to 40 years..."

Excerpt:

Carter continued (page 8):

Once I helped in disassembling
a damaged nuclear reactor
core in an experimental reactor at
Chalk River, Canada.

From my experience in the
Navy and more recently as
Governor of Georgia, I have
come to certain basic
conclusions about the energy
problem. The world has only
enough oil to last about 30 to
40 years at the present rate of
consumption. It has large coal
reserves - with perhaps 200
years of reserves in the United
States alone.

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American Thinker

Posted on: American Thinker
(January 17, 2009)

Heading: Reality Check:
Single Mothers and Ann
Coulter's 'Venomous Tone'

Excerpt:

Is Ann Coulter being
mean-spirited to single
mothers? The famous
author is in the news
again with a book to sell,
and TV presenters are
"offended". Or, at least
they're pretending to be.


Prepare for crocodile tear
floods.

Lost for words, the NBC's
TV heads don't know
how to respond to
Coulter's evidence
because sociology is on
her side (again). So this
time they're attacking her
tone.

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Update, January 23, 2009:
This piece is also available
on Canada Free Press.

American Thinker

Posted on: American Thinker
(January 16, 2009)

Heading: The KKK, Hollywood
and President Wilson

A lack of experience can
be misleading...Commander
in Chief. Woodrow Wilson
was President of Princeton
University and a renowned
intellectual. - TIME
magazine's spin on Obama's
thin record (March 10, 2008)


There are some things you need
to know about President Wilson's
AmeriKKKa.


1. You need to know that Wilson
was the first President to screen a
movie at the White House. 1915's
The Clansman - that is.


President Wilson's film contributor
/author friend, Thomas Dixon,
contacted him, about screening
The Clansman (also known as The
Birth of a Nation). It pays to know
racists. Soon after, the first film was
screening at the White House.

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Update, January 17, 2009:
This piece is also available
on Canada Free Press.

American Thinker

Posted on: American Thinker
(January 10, 2009)

Heading: 30 Politically Incorrect
Movie Characters

Excerpt:

Seek and ye shall find politically
incorrect movie characters.

From working-class heroes to
men in spider costumes, they
do exist. Really.

1. Detective Harry Callahan
(Clint Eastwood) in Dirty
Harry. Why: Because
sometimes the "politically
correct" system is too
political, and because
vigilante justice always
beats death in a gripping
police thriller. So, yes,
Harry stands up to liberal
San Francisco's recidivist
culture. "Well, do you, punk?"

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Update, January 14, 2009:
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Canada Free Press.

TCS Daily

Posted on: TCS Daily (January 8, 2009)

Heading: Book Review: The Deniers

Excerpt:


There appears to be a great spiritual
thirst for predicting great catastrophes.
I call it Armageddon chic. In Lawrence
Solomon's 2008 book, The Deniers,
however, we hear from a good many
moderate voices. There are no
sensational prophecies, but there are
many reasons to take a deep yoga
breath.


Here are four:

Notably, the former chairman of the
Committee on Applied and
Theoretical Sciences, Dr. Edward
Wegman, for example, exposed
the "hockey stick" rot behind the
catastrophic global warming
narrative, in spite of attacks from
all directions.


The president of the International
Commission on Polar Meteorology,
Dr. David Bromwich openly
believes that "it's hard to see a
global warming signal from the
mainland of Antarctica right now."


The chief of Insects and Infectious
Diseases, Prof. Paul Reiter from the
influential Pasteur Institute
acknowledges that Al Gore's stated
view that "global" warming
catastrophes and "mosquito-borne
diseases" are partners is not taken
seriously in specialist circles.

And, not surprisingly, the director
of research, from the Royal
Netherlands Meteorological
Institute, Prof. Hendrik Tennekes,
maintains that "there exists no sound
theoretical framework for climate
predictability studies" to justify
catastrophic warming forecasts...

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Update: January 11, 2009:
This piece is also available on
Canada Free Press.


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Update: January 19, 2009:
Thanks to the Australian Conservative
for writing about my piece - and the
link.

Intellectual Conservative

Posted on: Intellectual Conservative
(January 6, 2009)

Heading: Thoughts: Young Camille
Paglia’s Protest Letter, Coulter’s
Invitations & Snowmen

Excerpt:

Snowmen


In 1999, it was all about the "kids"
and vomit-inducing "global warming"
sermons. Andy "No snow is no fun for
kids" Rooney, from Tribune Media
Services played these cards:


– The National Geographic card:
"Large parts of the Earth never
get any snow at all." (Revelation.)


– The compassion card: "I feel
sorry for all the kids who grow
up in a land that gets no snow.
For the sake of the kids of the
future, I hope ours doesn't
become one of them." (Please.)


– The danger card: "Without
really thinking about it, you
would think the Earth was
more apt to get too cold to
sustain life in the future,
but the danger is heat."


– The snowman card: "What I
worry about is, if we don't have
cold winters, kids will never
know the fun of playing in the
snow."


– The sled/mommy card: "When
I was very young, my mother
bundled me up on a sled and
pulled me the three blocks to
Evans' grocery store, then
towed me home as I held the
bag of food on my lap."


– The preteen card: "Before I
was a teen, all the kids on our
block went to the hill on the
other side of Western Avenue
and rode our sleighs down it all."


– The clothing card: "It is
paradoxical that while we're
getting less snow, the clothes
for playing in it are better."


– The teen card: "When we
were a few years older, we
gave up the snowmen and
made forts of snow from
which we waged snowball wars."


– The family vacation card: "When
our kids were young, I took them
to a remote spot in the Adirondacks
where we built a big igloo-shaped
house."


In 2009, the world is freezing.

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American Thinker Blog

Posted on: American Thinker Blog
(January 4, 2009)

Heading: New Anti-War Students,
Same Old Anti-War Placards

Excerpt:

In 1933, Jews were being roughed up
in Hitler's Germany, but antiwar
students didn't wish to fight like
men.

WELLESLEY, MASS - A group of
Wellesley college girls carried
anti-war placards at the annual
Armistice Day Service on Wellesley
Green. American Legion officials
expressed indignation.

NORTHAMPTON, MASS - Students
from Smith and Mount Holyoke, girls'
colleges, Amherst College and
Massachusetts State College,
participated in a "peace parade."
Police seized and destroyed a
placard which bore the inscription,
"NRA means nationalism and war."

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Update, January 5, 2009:
This piece is also available
at Canada Free Press.

Intellectual Conservative

Posted on: Intellectual Conservative
(January 3, 2009)


Heading: Random Thoughts:
Global Sinking, Rick Warrenism,
and Fraternities

Excerpt:

Confession box time: As a nosey
Australian, I enjoy reading reports
about America's most controversial
fraternities and sororities. Clearly,
these arrangements seem to bring
out the best in women (in the movies),
and the worst in men (in the movies,
again).


Well, sometimes Hollywood is right.

Here's one fascinating example from
September 17, 1959:

Fraternity Hazing Fatal to USC Student


Los Angeles (AP) - A University of
Southern Californian student choked
to death on a piece of raw meat during
a predawn fraternity hazing today,
police reported.

Dr. Melvin Godly, summoned to Kappa
Sigma fraternity house, said he had to
extract a thick piece of liver from the
gullet of Richard Swanson, 21.
Swanson was pronounced dead on
arrival at Central Receiving Hospital.


Dr. Goldy said the meat was nearly 4
inches long and nearly an inch thick.

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American Thinker Blog

Posted on: American Thinker Blog
(January 3, 2009)

Heading: 1938 to 2008: The
World's Longest Anti-War
Song?

In 2008's "Back in Vietnam," the
singer/seasonal actor Lenny
Kravitz sarcastically sings:


We're gonna keep on riding
`til the enemy's been severed
We'll never turn around,
we don't care if it takes forever
Men women children will die
we're all in this together
Here we are again my friend

We're back in Vietnam
Back in Vietnam
We're back in Vietnam
Back in Vietnam
Do do do do do
Do do do do do
Do do do do do
Do do do do do


My. This is Kravitz's third major
anti-war number, by the way. He
also opposed Bush Senior's
liberation of Kuwait.

Granted, we've heard all this
before.

In 1938, Hollywood presented
an operatic anti-war plea for
peace because fighting Hitler
would appear mean-spirited...

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Update, January 4, 2009:
This piece is also available on
Canada Free Press.