Ahmadinejad speaking in America

The President of Columbia University has come under a lot of criticism for inviting Iranian President Ahmadinejad to speak to students. He said he believes in free speech and he would have given a platform to Hitler!

Here, however, you see maybe why he was so keen to invite Ahmadinejad. In the Iranian Presidents’ presence, he delivers this astonishingly direct introduction to his guest. It is well worth watching.

Fun Quiz: Who do you support for President?

Here is a quiz showing who your views are most similar to in the forthcoming US Presidential Elections:

Let me know who it says you support!

Student gets tasered in front of John Kerry

Even if you favour a firm policy of law and order, doesn’t this make you feel a little uncomfortable? A student is “tasered” at a John Kerry rally in Florida. Free speech anyone?

How to extol competition

Watch this video extolling the virtues of competition – including tax competition. It’s excellent and exactly the way to communicate a message in today’s internet age.

Never speak of a fellow conservative?

Some enjoyable bitchiness here from the candidates for the Republican nomination in New Hampshire last night – the same night Fred Thompson announced his candidature on Jay Leno. Particularly good lines from Mick Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani.

Is Greenpeace inspired by the Virginia Tech killer?

Earlier this year, Seung Hui Cho went on the rampage at Virginia Tech. He left a chilling video.

Greenpeace have launched a new campaign video today. Is it me, or does it look as though Greenpeace has been inspired by a homicidal maniac?

Have they got nothing better to do?

What on earth is wrong with the police and the Crown Prosecution Service in this country? Crime and the fear of crime are all pervasive and the police and CPS, between them, are failing to make us feel safer. Usually lack of resources is blamed.

And yet the Daily Mail reports of two pointless cases today. The first is where a cub scout leader has been forced to attend court for putting her feet on a train seat for a matter of seconds.

The second case concerns a pedestrian hit by a police car that mounted a pavement. The pedestrian’s foot was broken in the collision for he was then sent an £80 fine for damaging the police vehicle.

Last month a 12 year old was taken to court and charged with assault for throwing a cocktail sausage.

Yes we want zero tolerance and an end to yob behaviour.

But surely we want the right yobs targetted, not for the police to waste time and money going after easy wins that do nothing to reduce crime or the fear of crime?

More climate change hysteria

Just when you think the environmentalist lobby might recognise that it has overstretched itself, the Guardian (of course) reports that worse is in store.

For a side of the argument rarely given an airing in Britain, check out these ads from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

This rebuttal of Al Gore is particularly enjoyable:

The sick hypocrisy of the Left’s racism

The words “racist” and “racism” have been devalued because of the Left’s decision to overuse these powerful terms in an effort to silence those who don’t adopt their own bigoted, anti-freedom values.

After the sight of Doreen Lawrance and two black Labour MPs attacking Boris Johnson for being supposedly racist (an outrageous slur on a man who is anything but prejudiced) – which has been blogged here – we learn today in the Daily Mail that the Environment Agency is using racial preferencing in its employment process.

A teenage science student, Abigal Howarth, was banned from applying for a training programme with the Environment Agency because she is white and English.

Racial discrimination of any kind is wrong. This kind of reverse discrimination – couched as “positive discrimination” – is as wrong as outright discrimination against blacks, Jews or any other racial group. But it seems that if the discrimination is against white people so as to reverse supposed wrongs of the past, it is permissible. It isn’t and it shouldn’t be.

If you think standards in public life are bad in Britain…

Today is the 38th anniversary of the guilty plea of leaving the scene of a crime by Senator Ted Kennedy. He was also sentenced to two month in prison, alas suspended. The verdict followed the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in Senator Kennedy’s car, after Kennedy plummeted over a bridge at Chappaquiddick into a creek.

Kennedy fled the scene and didn’t report the accident until the following morning by when Mary Jo – who would have been 67 years old this year – was found dead. Kennedy – a man with no shame even to this day – did not resign.

You can learn a LOT more about Red Ted at http://ytedk.com.