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US Supreme Court to revisit 2003 decision that race-based discrimination is legal. Should be interesting....

In tonight's Tips music, relatively unknown Irish songbird Sinéad Lohan brings her lovely voice to a treatment of Bob Dylan's To Ramona. The comments are open, as always, to your Reader Tips....

In the post "Hoffer on Scribes and Bureaucrats", David Foster of Chicago Boyz excerpts a couple of timely passages from Eric Hoffer's essay The Ordeal of Change, published about fifty years ago: The explosive component in the contemporary scene is...

Paul Rahe has recently published two important columns, here and here. Some in the Catholic church are very annoyed. If I were a Leftist Catholic, I would be too. h/t Nick...

There is a cliché in Washington. There are two things you do not want to see made: sausage and laws. To those we may add a third: Barack Obama's decisions. Ron Suskind's book Confidence Men portrays Barack Obama as being...

...actually a closet Monophysite, pace the Rev. Franklin Graham (with video)....

In the old days, you know, when the words "right" & "wrong" actually meant something, there was an important part of Canada's Criminal Code known as Section 46 that carried some weight with the citizenry. It describes "High treason" and...

Why bother being a uniter when the good 'ol divider schtick works even better....

Warnings though, are meant to be ignored: I used to mention that even a marginal increase in summer frosts, or shortening of growing seasons could spell disaster ... but no, these guano-for-brains bots of the "green" movement were more concerned...

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“Earlier this evening, Peter Gleick, a prominent figure in the global warming movement, confessed to stealing electronic documents from The Heartland Institute in an attempt to discredit and embarrass a group that disagrees with his views.

“Gleick’s crime was a serious one. The documents he admits stealing contained personal information about Heartland staff members, donors, and allies, the release of which has violated their privacy and endangered their personal safety.

“An additional document Gleick represented as coming from The Heartland Institute, a forged memo purporting to set out our strategies on global warming, has been extensively cited by newspapers and in news releases and articles posted on Web sites and blogs around the world. It has caused major and permanent damage to the reputations of The Heartland Institute and many of the scientists, policy experts, and organizations we work with.

“A mere apology is not enough to undo the damage.

“In his statement, Gleick claims he committed this crime because he believed The Heartland Institute was preventing a “rational debate” from taking place over global warming. This is unbelievable. Heartland has repeatedly asked for real debate on this important topic. Gleick himself was specifically invited to attend a Heartland event to debate global warming just days before he stole the documents. He turned down the invitation.

“Gleick also claims he did not write the forged memo, but only stole the documents to confirm the content of the memo he received from an anonymous source. This too is unbelievable. Many independent commentators already have concluded the memo was most likely written by Gleick.

The Heartland Institute is a 28-year-old national nonprofit organization with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, DC. Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems.

In tonight's Tips music the late June Carter Cash, wife of Johnny, and daughter of Country Music legend Mother Maybelle Carter, gets her giddy-up going as she gets ready for those Big Balls In Nashville. The comments are open, as...

A seven-year-old Brit named Elliot Dearlove recently asked a five-year-old boy on a playground if his skin was brown because he was from Africa. Whoops: His mother, Hayley White, 29...received a phone call last month to say her son had...

From a school textbook ("a comprehensive introduction to the study of Geography") used by Grade 8 students in NSW, Australia: Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the planet is warming, there are still people who deny that is a result of...

Feb 14, 2012 - One of the Left's heroes, Keith Olbermann insists that no rapes occurred at the various Occupy protests, even though there is well documented evidence to the contrary. Feb 16, 2012 - An Ottawa born writer named...

There was a time not that long ago where the expression "sustainable conventional energy" was considered an oxymoron. I wonder, does hundreds of years of conventional energy in abundance change it to a tautology? “The message is quite clear, you...

Your tax dollars "at work": A federal agency created by the Conservative government to mediate complaints about Canadian mining operations abroad has spent more than $1.1 million in the past two years, but has yet to mediate anything. At the...

In a fascinating new column, George Jonas ponders why Canada is exporting democracy but importing tyranny. In the narcosis of “progress,” the liberal state clings to its dogmas, sacrileges, holy things and taboos. It guards them as jealously and enforces...

They don't hate our "freedoms". They hate our guts. The usual Sunday-Morning-talk-show explanation for this is that Pakistan is hedging its strategic bets: Pakistani military leaders doubt the United States military can tame Afghanistan before American combat forces’ scheduled exit...