Headlines, Headlines, And More Headlines

Once again, there's a lot going on. Check it out:

Magic Hillary
Hillary Clinton has the solution for rising gas prices (even though they've fallen again in the past few weeks): simply elect her President. That's right, just the act of becoming President will magically cause prices to drop. Is she stuck on herself, or what?

The usual ACLU madness
Adam Habib, an academic from South Africa, has been denied a visa to enter the U.S. to speak due to past terrorist activities. Naturally, the ACLU is defending the anti-American terrorist-loving guy, calling the visa denial a violation of his freedom of speech. This is completely wrong on many levels: he's not a U.S. citizen, so he doesn't get our rights; he's a known terrorist associate, so he's a national security risk. The ACLU is one of the biggest dangers to America.

Defend Mark Steyn
The Muslim group attacking Mark Steyn, the CIC (Canadian Islamic Congress), is upset about two things Steyn said:

The fifty million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.

Just look at the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every Western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries is producing 3.5 children.

Here's the problem: The “Muslim continent” statement is not only factual, it’s stated in words no one can characterize as inflammatory. (Also, it’s been said by Libya’s strongman Muammar Qaddafi). Second, “The number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes” was not Steyn’s phrase. He was quoting Mullah Krekar, a jihadist who currently resides in Norway, although officials have been trying for years to get him out of the country.

This is my point in reporting this madness to you: Muslims go crazy at things that aren't even factually true, and the favored method of attack is to silence all opposition. That is precisely what Stalin and the Nazis did. If we don't fight it now, we could lose too much ground to recover.

Potential disaster for Huckabee
Caucus Cooler blows open a story revealing some very large donations from one of the world's largest embryonic stem cell researchers. If that rumor proves to be true, it would spell disaster for Huckabee's conservative Christian position. Combined with his recent tangle with Rush Limbaugh, Huckabee's currency seems to be dropping.

Real man of the year
Investors Business Daily has published their own 'man of the year' award to counter Time magazine's selection of Russian President Putin. The winner is General David Petraeus. IBD says: "Our preference is not for tyrants, but for those who defeat them." Changing the world? Check! Bringing about peace? Check! Leadership and integrity? Check, and check! There's no better choice than Petraeus.

Year of global cooling
Heavy-Handed Politics posts a great piece on recent planetary temperatures. Just a few examples:

- In Buenos Aires, snow fell for the first time since the year 1918.
- Johannesburg, South Africa, had the first significant snowfall in 26 years. Australia experienced the coldest June ever.
- Last January, $1.42 billion worth of California produce was lost to a devastating five-day freeze.
- In April, a killing freeze destroyed 95 percent of South Carolina's peach crop, and 90 percent of North Carolina's apple harvest.
- On Dec. 7, St. Cloud, Minn., set a new record low of minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit. On the same date, record low temperatures were also recorded in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
- On Dec. 4, in Seoul, Korea, the temperature was a record minus 5 degrees Celsius.

Of course, fact after fact after fact won't stop global warming crazies: "In 2005, a Canadian Greenpeace representative explained 'global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.' In other words, all weather variations are evidence for global warming. Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo." This is an excellent article with a ton more detail, so go check it out!

More pork than on a hog farm
Two recent spending bills Congress passed contained literally thousands of earmarks (despite Democrats' pledge to end the practice of earmarking) for billions of dollars. Read it and be angry.

Cancer and stem cells
Some scientists are now looking into experiments to determine the relationship between stem cells and cancer. A very interesting theory, and one to watch.

A country within America??
The Lakota Indians, who inhabit the upper Midwest, have abruptly withdrawn from treaties signed with the U.S. dozens or hundreds of years ago. They plan to set up their own independent country, which would include tax-free living and official documents like driver's licenses and passports, provided one was willing to renounce American citizenship. Is this a golden opportunity for illegal aliens and terrorists, or what?