Al Gore's rhetoric inflation

The Goracle's latest antics:

Al Gore today compared the battle against climate change with the struggle against the Nazis.

The former US Vice President said the world lacked the political will to act and invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill by encouraging leaders to unite their nations to fight climate change.

Speak for yourself, David

If you want to see how poisonous and stultifying the conservative worldview (specifically, Burkean skepticism) is, look no further than this column by David Brooks.

I wish that people who offer disparaging theories of human nature would be honest and admit that they specifically see themselves in this way. For example, Brooks should have written the following:

Most people know I believe this is untrue. In reality, my decisions are made by my own imperfect minds in what I see as ambiguous circumstances. It is incoherent to say that I don't understand why a judge should base an opinion on reason and not emotion because emotions are an inherent part of my own decision-making.

Such as change would not only be refreshing, but also useful. It would signal clearly to the readers that, to the extent that it is not already apparent, David Brooks shouldn't be taken seriously.

Lewis Black takes on Earth Day

This is hilarious.

The environmentalist ideal is human misery

The Greens have seen their golden future, and it is the 1970s. Seriously.

Tiny cars are still unsafe

Crash tests show that sub-compact cars fare poorly in collisions with mid-sized cars (note: not against SUVs that the car Puritans love to hate). And yet, these small cars are what the federal government is forcing auto companies to make more of.

News flash to Lawrence Auster: Christianity is an ideology

That's all I really have to say in response to this post, which was emailed to me and (heh) ended up in my spam box. (You can see the original exchange here, without Auster's editorializing and omissions.)

When someone offers a moral/political worldview—any worldview—they can have no honest argument against ideology as such.

There is also no honest argument against reason itself; in such a case the arguers (here, blood-and-soil loving Yahweh-worshipers) have excluded themselves from the province of reason and therefore from any rational debate.

Good riddance, savages.

Is the Tea Party movement "incredibly dangerous"?

I really hope that this editorial is a joke, but I'm not betting on it (HT: Instapundit) .

More love from the world community

Hugo Chávez weighs in on President Obama.

Venezuelan ports seized by military

This apparently isn't a nationalization, since the ports were already run by the separate state governments.

However, Chávez has taken a page from the Putin playbook by centralizing power at the national level, where he has direct control.

State-level governments in Venezuela have controlled the country's most important airports, sea ports and major highways since a move towards decentralisation began some 20 years ago, the AFP news agency says.

Many of the facilities seized on Saturday have since then fallen under the jurisdiction of state governments often hostile to Mr Chavez.

At what time will the mainstream news media start calling Chávez's regime a dictatorship?

Yes, they're serious about the "Islamic Republic" thing

Obama is quickly discovering (or at least ought to discover) that the Iranian regime isn't interested in diplomatic pussyfooting. They actually believe in their theocratic ideology, and they won't rest until the whole world submits to their Bronze Age sky wizard.

Wouldn't it be nice if we had politicians who understood, and were willing to stand up for, the values that made the West great?