- George Will on the movie 'United Flight 93':
Amazingly, no one has faulted the movie for ethnic profiling: All the hijackers are portrayed as young, fervently devout Muslim men. Report Greengrass to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Amazingly, George Will is still a wanker.
- Tony Blair is in serious political trouble.
Tony Blair is the victim of a left wing plot to oust him as prime minister, Home Secretary John Reid has said.
About 50 Labour MPs are thought to have signed a letter calling for Mr Blair to name a departure date to end "debilitating" leadership speculation.
But Mr Reid claimed their real agenda was to topple Mr Blair and turn the clock back on his reforms.
- Canadians got a preview of the Conservative government's 'Made in Canada' plan to save Canada's environment this week (a complete rejection of the Kyoto accord) when it was announced that funding was slashed for energy-saving programs:
Department of Finance officials are confirming that a whole new list of environmental programs are losing their funding as a result of this week's federal budget.
Among the best known is the Energuide program, in which Canadians who have their homes renovated to save energy can qualify for a federal grant of several thousand dollars.
Next on the agenda? How about removing all regulations governing smokestack emissions and burning huge stacks of excess tires that are just taking up green space? No pain, no gain, as they say.
- The Palestinian Authority is going broke since countries like Canada and the United States, along with the European Union, decided to cut off aid funding. Meanwhile, the people, who democratically elected their government are on their way to a serious humanitarian crisis. Perhaps the countries that suspended their aid should have had a remedy in place to deal with what they knew would be the result of their actions before they stopped sending money.
- Shades of Mogadishu in Iraq following a helicopter crash that killed four Brits. 81 Iraqis were killed in car bombings and sectarian clashes this weekend. Choke on that, Rumsfeld.
- This is what Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan will be facing as the US troops withdraw:
Building on a winter campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations as well as the knowledge that U.S. troops will be leaving, the Taliban appear to be moving their insurgency into a new phase, flooding the rural areas of southern Afghanistan with men and weapons.
Each spring with the arrival of warmer weather, the fighting season starts up in Afghanistan, but the scale of the militants' presence and their sheer brazenness have alarmed Afghans and foreign officials far more than in previous years.
The fact that U.S. troops are pulling out of southern Afghanistan in the coming months and handing matters over to NATO peacekeepers -- who have repeatedly said that they are not going to fight terrorists -- has given a boost to the insurgents and increased the fears of Afghans.
Canadian opposition to our troops remaining in Afghanistan is growing. When will our government get that message and bring them home? How many casualties will it take? And, why are the Americans abandoning this war?
- check out Jarret B Wollstein's piece, 'Democracy Versus Freedom' if you're looking for something insightful to ponder today.
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