An article title caught my attention: ”Why the Hell are we allied with Israel? The Sequel.” Although the article is only a few hours old as I write, it still describes the Gaza Blockade Run as a crime by Israel, a conclusion that is ill-informed and uninformed. But the title was cute, so I’ll take the bait and explain.
I'm actually working on a longer climategate related post but his news just broke so I thought I'd make a quick mention of it. A 2007 U.N. report attributed North African food shortages to global warming. One of the key authors of the report has now come forward to say he cannot find any scientific evidence to back this claim. Fox News reports:
I couldn’t have known it at the time, but my generation that attended schools in the 1950s would be among the last to get an education that the federal government hadn’t dictated or the United Nations had not infiltrated.
The education I received was intended to be primarily a function of local communities with oversight by [...]
The US House acted decisively to support the Israel. It also called out the UN as biased. Pretty strong language, and the overwhelming majority sends a rather direct message to Obama and his anti-Israel advisers.
In addition to the 36 voting "no," 22 voted "present." Here's the roll call - spot the anti-Semites.
Ed Whelan continues his examination of the "transnationalist" record of Harold Koh, who has been selected to be the State Department's legal advisor in the Obama administration. I collected and discussed some of Ed's previous posts on this subject here.
Say, what's wrong with sitting on a council with such bastions as of human rights support as China, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and others, and is anti-semetic? The Obama administration decided Tuesday to seek a seat on the U.N. Human...
Earlier this month, the Heartland Institute sponsored the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change in New York. The Conference differed from most such events in that it was devoted to science, not politics or propaganda. Heartland has now made the materials presented at the conference available online, here. You can review the agenda, watch videos of the keynote presentations, read transcripts of some of the speeches, and see the Power Points that were presented by the speakers.
