Best quote came within a minute: “[Obama] is worse than Jimmy Carter on foreign policy.”

In case you didn’t know, check out this student group who is bringing Ann Coulter to their Canadian campus

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Generally speaking I try and avoid the Globe and Mail at all costs, but a Tweet by Kathy Shaidle directed me to a great column by Rex Murphy on the two greatest speakers in America. One of whom was Palin, the ther a man who needs a teleprompter to win a presidency (three guesses).

My favourite excerpt:

Ms. Palin is a real and evolving element in the great story of American politics. She is the “other half” of the Obama moment, and she may be in the ascendant. Mr. Obama is losing his lustre, his appeal is dimming, at the very moment the Alaskan outsider is staking her claim. Those who call her a joke are expressing an anxious hope not offering a rational description.

Ms. Palin has rare gifts and stamina enough to give them play. She is the second most outstanding figure on the great stage of American politics.

 The full column is here

New Jersey school-teachers are indoctrinating children by teaching them Barack Hussein Obama rap songs. Universities are corrupting students with neo-Marxist and atheist propaganda. It was only a matter of time before Mattel started teaching young girls that they don’t have rights and freedoms. Or the feminist perspective is that young girls can be anything they want, provided they want to be the next generation of Sharia-girls. That’s right, it’s time for Burqa Barbie! Islam-friendly dolls are being showcased in Italy. On the upside, at least now any male siblings who attempt to undress the Barbie will be labeled as infidels and stoned to death.

The only part of Conrad Black’s arrest I support is that now he has more time to publish his great National Post columns! A good friend of Ann Coulter is another positive trait he had. In light of Stephen Harper’s growing time in office, here is the latest from Black!

Stephen Harper has now served longer as a minority prime minister than any of his predecessors except Lester B. Pearson, a PM who was only three or four seats short of a majority.
Pearson left office in 1968. And times have changed since then. While Harper is dealing with the venomous hedgehog of the separatist Bloc Québécois, Pearson had to contend with the bizarre, but crypto-federalist, Créditistes.

In one sense, Harper’s task is easier: Pearson faced the volcanic, almost fiendish opposition of John Diefenbaker, rather than the ineffectual Stéphane Dion, verdant in his “Green Shift,” but incomprehensible, acoustically and otherwise; and the estimable Michael Ignatieff, who has yet taken an inexplicably long time finding his feet tactically. Diefenbaker was capable of turning anything into a threat to the government, and year after year, he shook Pearson by his eye-teeth with great relish.

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My friend Salim Mansur is not only a professor at the University of Western Ontario, but also a great columnist for Sun Media. (If you haven’t seen it already, there’s a great interview by him in the documentary “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West”). His latest column is talking about Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit to India, a trip that has been hailed as controversial at best by many of his critics.

At the end of the day, I’m glad Prime Minister Harper was able to stand his ground and remind the world of how close Canada and India are.

There has been a little storm in a teacup over the itinerary of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent visit to India in the pages of the National Post.
Some people have expressed unhappiness with Harper for his journey to Amritsar in Punjab, the sacred city of the Sikhs, and in visiting the Golden Temple for political mileage with Canada’s Sikh community.
Others were put off by the prime minister for going to Mumbai, the city terrorized by Islamist warriors (jihadists) sent from Pakistan in Nov. 2008.
In Mumbai, he visited the Chabad House of the Orthodox Jews where six people were murdered, including Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his pregnant wife Rivkah. Again, it is implied Harper was cynically exploiting his official visit to India for the political purpose of securing Jewish votes in Canada.
There is some legitimate ground to be critical of Harper’s visit to the Golden Temple and how such a visit might be viewed as pushing the buttons of ethnic politics that is demeaning to all Canadians. The same cannot be said of Harper taking time to pay respect at the Chabad House.
But this visit was neither about merely remembering the horror of Islamist terror descending upon India’s largest and most cosmopolitan city, nor the obscene hunt by the jihadists for a few Jews and their murder in a city of more than 14 million people. It was instead much more with Harper displaying a sense of compassion, grieving and solidarity with India after Indians had suffered their own version of 9/11.
The Chabad House in Mumbai symbolizes what modern India represents as the world’s largest democracy and what the Islamists hate.
India’s nationalism is a composite nourished by diverse streams of ethnicities and religions over many centuries.
Jews arrived in India about the time Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, was born in the 6th century before Christ. This is more than a millennium before Islam arrived and nearly two millennia before Sikhism was preached in the Punjab.
In recent decades, an unfortunate distance grew between India and Israel when New Delhi leaned towards the Arab world.
But in 1992, the two democracies established full diplomatic relations and this has grown into a strategic partnership befitting the history of the two people. This includes India’s Muslims — the second largest community of Muslims in the world after that of Indonesia — whose leaders have travelled to Jerusalem and embraced Jews and Israel in the fullness of their faith-tradition.
India’s blemishes and virtues are not hidden. They are out in the open — the poverty of her multitudes, the sacrifices in the making and preserving of her democracy, the struggle to make the transition into a modern industrial society — and openly discussed as the founders of modern India wished it.
India, as an open, secular democracy where all of the world’s faiths are present, was under assault by the Islamist terrorists. And by murdering Jews in Mumbai, these terrorists were indicating Jews are not safe anywhere.
In visiting the Chabad House, Harper went the distance to affirm Canada’s solidarity with India and the contempt for Islamists everywhere.

Original article here.

There are two things that you need to know about me if you don’t already.

1) I love Sarah Palin
2) I hate Barbara Walters

Normally I would never think of drawing attention to Barbara Walters unless it was to mock her (such as oh, I don’t know, reading Ann Coulter’s book like Mein Kampf‘?). However, my love of Sarah Palin trumps by hatred of Baba Wawa, so here’s Governor Palin’s interview on 20:20 from a few days ago!

And P.S., Palin for 2012!

I was hoping I’d be able to most something tonight saying that miraculously, a couple dozen Democratic Senators came to their senses…but that would mean they became Republicans. The healthcare bill passed the Senate vote tonight, which Governor Palin suspects was only held tonight for the Democrats to try and use procedural loopholes for their own gain (but they would never do that though right?). Senate majority leader Harry “Less shrill, male version of Nancy Pelosi” Reid linked Republicans voting against this bill to those Senators who voted against abolishing slavery and giving women the right to vote. What would a landmark Democrat-sponsored bill be without some exaggerated guilt from the old boys club?

This bill raises income taxes for individuals and families, as well as sales tax increases on medical devices that are already pretty expensive.

In light of the rhetoric on this issue shared by those champions of the legislation, no one summed it up better than Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), “Move over, Bernie Madoff. Tip your hat to a trillion-dollar scam.”

The Senate is set to vote Saturday night, right before the holiday, on a motion to proceed on its latest health care government take-over bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pushing for yet another weekend vote (commonplace now for the party of “transparency”) because he knows that the American people will be none too happy about the Democrats’ proposal the longer they have to look it over.

A vote against the Democrats’ motion will help stop Obamacare before it gets any closer to becoming a reality. While this Saturday night vote might seem like a procedural matter, at the end of the day a vote against Senator Reid’s motion is a vote against massive new government spending and a take-over of 1/6th of the U.S. economy; it’s a vote against billions in tax increases and penalties; it’s a vote against federal funding of abortion; and it’s a vote against ignoring responsible tort reform.

And in case you hadn’t heard – just a reminder that you’ll start paying higher taxes to fund this scheme in 2010 even though it doesn’t start up until 2014. Only in Washington does that make any sense. Among the provisions in this bill will be a $2500 cap on Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs). The IRS allows families with special needs children to use FSAs to cover educational expenses. This new $2500 cap will hit these families especially hard and cost them hundreds of dollars in new taxes every year.

Contact your senators and tell them to vote against the motion to proceed tomorrow night. The American people don’t support this – we support the commonsense solutions that have been proposed, but totally ignored by (at this point) some out-of-control Washington politicians. Let’s put a stop to Obamacare before it goes any further.

- Sarah Palin