Thursday, February 14, 2013

Postmedia's puff piece on Justin Trudeau

This story puff-piece by Glen McGregor about Justin Trudeau's wealth appeared in most Postmedia News outlets this morning (on the front page of the Ottawa Citizen).  It didn't take Ezra Levant long to debunk it and ask some serious questions:

Monday, February 11, 2013

Cambridge Union debate on religion

The motion: 'This House Believes Religion has no place in the 21st Century'

Speaking for the motion:
Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association,
Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and militant evangelical atheist, and
Arif Ahmed, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.

Speaking against:
Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, ,
Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford, and
Douglas Murray, Associate Director of the Henry Jackson Society.



Most interesting was Douglas Murray's argument against the motion.  Murray is an atheist who made no bones about his personal opposition to the views of the other two speakers on his own side of the debate, Williams and Ramadan.

The result: Cambridge students voted 324 versus 138 against the motion.

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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Dr. Benjamin Carson lecturing Obama

At the National Prayer Breakfast:


and with Sean Hannity afterward:

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Playing the global warming morality card

Anthony Watts:
... there’s been an ongoing series of rants in my local newspaper ... from global warming activists posing as moralists with holier-than-thou views about how noble their world view is, and how terrible that of others who aren’t jumping on the bandwagon is.

Today ... a letter so ridiculous, so repulsive, so condescending, and at the same time so hilarious, I thought it worth bringing to attention ...

Former Navy Seal, Chris Kyle, murdered at gun range

Sad story. Kyle, author of "American Sniper",
... had been volunteering his time to help Marine Corps veterans suffering from PTSD and mentoring them. Part of this process involved taking these veterans to the range where one of them snapped and killed Chris and his neighbor for reasons that remain unknown at this time. 
Here's Kyle in a recent interview:


... and with Bill O'Reilly last year:
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Friday, February 1, 2013

Dennis Prager: American Values

Still The Last Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph