Le Monde loves Fidel, and today's items

Via No Pasaran,

Le Monde Diplomatique Director Ignacio Ramonet is gathering a "consencus" of French journalists to write an "authorized" retrospective of Castro's paradise on earth.

Joe is not amused
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Did you listen to my latest Blog Talk Radio?

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One of my childhood heroes, Buzz Aldrin, has an article at PJM, Let's go back to the moon
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ShrinkWrapped is discussing Abortion on Demand: Reverberations and Vicissitudes. Sigmund, Carl and Alfred has an absolutely heartbreaking post on the subject.

Do Women Have A Right To Informed Consent?
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Town Commons posts on the Muslim Council of Britain's guidelines for special treatment of Islamic children in the state school system:

• Allowance for girls beginning at the primary school level to wear the hijab
• seperation of the sexes in any sort of physical activity that would allow touching or that involves swimming
• special changing areas for muslim children to change clothes in private
• if you have a school field trip to a farm, muslims must not be allowed to touch a pig
• Parents can withdrawal their children from music classes
• Muslim children should not be asked to draw pictures of humans

Go read the rest.
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Via Larwyn, Hillary Clinton's Confederacy Hypocrisy. Hillary can't remember celebrating Confederate Flag Day back in Arkansas. How convenient.

Terrorists not allowed to use Constitution against us

War Power Game
The coming constiutional crisis

Edwards: Greatest Threat to World Peace is Israel
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Via Maria,
Russian missile "blackmail" won't work, Czechs say

The Czech Republic said on Tuesday it would not be intimidated by Russia over plans to site parts of a U.S. missile defense system on its territory and said attempts at "blackmail" by Moscow would backfire.

Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said threats by Russian officials over the plans, which would involve placing a radar system on Czech land and a missile battery in Poland, would only make Czechs more determined to defend themselves.

Dennis Prager on Happiness Is a Moral Obligation

These PU students are making someone happy!
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Cinnammon writes about When Awards Become Politicized
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In a lighter mode,
Accessorize, accessorize I just bought myself one of these:

Handbag and lunch bag in one. And the red matches my nail polish, too.

Global warming, North Korea, and today's items

Augusto sent this, Vaclav Klaus about the IPCC panel (emphasis added)

Q: On Wednesday, the European Commission has approved carbon dioxide caps for new cars. One week earlier, the U.N. IPCC climate panel released a report that has described, once again, the global warming as one of the major threats for the whole civilization. The Stern report about similar threats was published before that. And you suddenly say that the global warming is a myth. Try to explain, how did you get this idea, Mr President?

A: It's not my idea. Global warming is a myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it's a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It's neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment. Also, it's an undignified slapstick that people don't wait for the full report in May 2007 but instead respond, in such a serious way, to the summary for policymakers where all the "but's" and "if's" are scratched, removed, and replaced by oversimplified theses.

This is clearly such an incredible failure of so many people, from journalists to politicians... If the European Commission is instantly going to buy such a trick, we have another very good reason to think that the countries themselves, not the Commission, should be deciding about similar issues.
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It's also true that there exist social systems that are damaging Nature - by eliminating private ownership and similar things - much more than the freer societies. These tendencies become important in the long run. They unambiguously imply that today, on February 8th, 2007, Nature is protected uncomparably more than on February 8th ten years ago or fifty years ago or one hundred years ago.

Sunspots, Cosmic Rays Causing Global Warming

When sun is more active, its rays push the cosmic rays away from the Earth. Then fewer clouds are formed and the Earth warms. When the sun is less active, more cosmic rays reach the Earth, more clouds are formed, and the Earth cools.

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Tentative Nuclear Deal Struck With North Korea
Steps to Disarmament Drafted in 6-Party Talks

"This is a very bad deal," former U.N. ambassador John R. Bolton told CNN. "It contradicts fundamental premises of the president's policy he's been following for the past six years. And second, it makes the administration look very weak at a time in Iraq . . . when it needs to look strong."

At NRO, via Alcibiades,

We are entering a very dangerous and depressing phase: making deals the principal accomplishment of which is the demonstration that we're not unilateralist cowboys — diplomacy celebrated for its own sake rather than because it actually, materially furthers American interests.

It's deja-vu all over again, babe.
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The glamorizing of the covered women continues. (h/t Larwyn)
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Also via Larwyn, Let A Thousand Team Bs Bloom: Douglas Feith Deserves Our Thanks: There Is No Category of 'Inappropriate' Activities
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In a lighter mode, Air Force Three (h/t Darleen)