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Another lie from a Hildebrand boyChad Schuldt pulls off another partisan-based lie. This one is about Cindy Sheehan:The most important fact in the story is that Sheehan lost her son in the war last spring. She has been rebuffed by the President and there have...Clash of Titans in the Great White North!
Democrats ruined liberalCanada flexes its muscles in dispute over Arctic wastes
While the US is busy taking on global Islamofascism, Canada is also busy sticking up for it's interests:
Canadian warships were sailing towards the Arctic yesterday in the latest act of gunboat diplomacy over control of the frozen wastes there.Amid diplomatic arguments over territorial rights, Canada's defence minister recently clambered on to a frozen rock, tiny Hans Island, triggering protests from Denmark. The Canadian programme hit high gear yesterday as the frigate Fredricton sailed towards the contested Davis Strait separating Greenland and north-east Canada.Denmark was not going to take this lying down - but the brink of disaster has been averted with the prospects of meetings at the UN.
Denmark dispatched the naval cutter Tulugaq and threatened to land more men. However, as tensions rose, the two Nato allies had second thoughts, and the rival claimants agreed to discuss the dispute at the United Nations next month.(Phew! Close call! Another world war averted!)
Still, this whole thing threatens a new arctic arms race, since the Canucks apparently need a bit more guns and less butter:
Critics of the Canadian policy argue that if the government is serious about pursuing a robust "northern strategy" it will have to start investing.A C$700 million (£322 million) road to Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic Sea has been proposed, but the money has not yet been pledged.Maybe the Martin government can pitch in some of its political slush fund money to help repay from the "Ad-scam" scandal, which has been fully documented by Captain's Quarters, among others.
The military, meanwhile, is not ideally equipped for the brutal conditions of the far north. Although it is expanding its Arctic command base at Yellowknife, the navy lacks sufficient capacity to plough through the pack ice. Critics say that this explains why the Canadian authorities have chosen the summer months to undertake their sovereignty patrols.This situation will bear close watching, what with World Peace on the brink and all.
From Star Parker: A group of wealthy Democratic Party partisans has announced a new partnership called the Democratic Alliance, through which millions of dollars will be funneled to a network of new and existing liberal think tanks to compete with...Looking East, Part II
A reader from Virginia (formerly of SD) offers this observation to my post yesturday:The lack of an endorsement of NARAL for the Democratic nominee willprobably help him in this conservative border south state. Kaine hasmade no secret of his personal...Politicizing the Past
San Francisco has delivered a slap in the face to our nation's past and has refused to commemorate the USS Iowa. The reason is the usual asinine, lefty response: . . . [C]ity supervisors voted 8-3 last month to oppose...What Is It To Be President?
Edmund Morris has a fine piece on the emotional strain of being president....Does Roberts Support Prayer in Public Schools?
I don't know, and most likely neither do you. One sure can't tell from his position on Wallace v. Jaffree (1985). But the Associated Press and even the Washington Times have pounced on a memo about that case. The problem...Cindy Sheehan, Sandy Berger, and the anti-war left
From the National Ledger: Did defense intelligence officials identify ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as al Qaeda members more than a year before 09/11? That?s what Lee Hamilton, co-chair of the now disbanded 09/11 Commission, wants to know....
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