After you read below, you can tell this reporter did no research at all.   Posted from MichelleMalkin.com:

 Fred, not Tommy.  I'm liking this more and more, although Duncan Hunter looks good to me as well.

Good column by Robert Novak:

In just three weeks, Fred Thompson has improbably transformed the contest for the Republican presidential nomination. It is not merely that he has come from nowhere to double digits in national polls. He is the talk of GOP political circles, because he is filling the conservative void in the Republican field.

Republican activists have complained for months that none of the big-three contenders -- Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney -- fits the model of a conservative leader for a conservative party. The party faithful have been waiting for another Ronald Reagan. But in the past year, nobody mentioned Thompson as the messiah until he appeared March 11 on ''Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.''

His statement to Wallace that he was ''giving some thought'' to a presidential run generated a reaction that surprised Thompson. In the first Gallup Poll that listed Thompson (March 23-25), he scored 12 percent -- amazing for someone out of public life for more than four years. More important than the polling data is his backing within the political community. Buyer's remorse is expressed by several House members who had endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Romney.

Thompson's popularity reflects weakness among announced Republican candidates, as reflected in the Gallup survey. Sen. McCain, no longer an insurgent but still not accepted by conservatives, is stuck in the 20-25 percent range. Former New York City Mayor Giuliani has dropped precipitously from 44 percent to 31 percent, amid attacks on his ideology and personal life. Most startling, despite a well-financed, well-organized campaign, Romney has fallen to 3 percent.

Sophisticated social conservative activists tell me they cannot vote for Giuliani under any conditions and have no rapport with McCain or Romney. They are coming to see Thompson as the only conservative who can be nominated. Their appreciation of him stems not from his eight years as a U.S. senator from Tennessee but his actor's role as district attorney of Manhattan on ''Law and Order.''

Thompson's political origin as a protege of Sen. Howard Baker, leader of the Tennessee GOP's more liberal wing, prompted hard-line Senate conservatives to consider him a little too liberal. Actually, his lifetime Senate voting record as measured by the American Conservative Union was 86 percent. It would have been close to 100 percent except for his repeated votes supporting McCain's campaign finance reform. None of the big-three Republicans has been so consistently conservative as Thompson on tax policy, national security and abortion.

The principal complaint about Thompson concerns his work ethic. The rap is that he does not burn the midnight oil -- the identical criticism of Reagan, before and during his presidency. That carping may betray resentment that Thompson has emerged as a full-blown candidate without backbreaking campaign travel and tedious fund-raising. Thompson's critics assert that, bored with his lucrative career as an actor, he has enjoyed his 15 minutes of fame created by a chance TV interview and will not really run. But he privately assures friends that this is for real. His performance on ''Fox News Sunday'' was no accident. He went on the program for the purpose of unveiling his possible candidacy.

Thompson did not leave public policy when he left the Senate. He has served on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He hardly knew Scooter Libby but felt he was getting a raw deal, appeared in his courtroom and helped raise money for his defense fund.

Friends bet Thompson will run. He clearly wants to try, and his wife, Jeri, is all for it. Seeking the best timing, he wants to avoid the pitfalls encountered by Democrat Barack Obama, who may have damaged himself by starting his campaign too quickly.

I met Thompson in 1974 as Howard Baker's 31-year-old minority counsel on the Watergate investigation. I considered him co, careful and conservative. He still is, and that is how he would run for president, which appears in the offing.

Illustrated:

Posted from Jawa:

In yet another blatant act of cultural cowardice, teachers in the UK are refusing to teach students critical points of history, for fear of offending tender Muslim sensibilities, or forcing them to examine the teachings of their Imams more closely.

From The Daily Mail:

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.

There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.

The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history 'as a vehicle for promoting political correctness'.

The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into 'emotive and controversial' history teaching in primary and secondary schools.

It found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.

The article went on to say:

The report concluded: "In particular settings, teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship."

But Chris McGovern, history education adviser to the former Tory government, said: "History is not a vehicle for promoting political correctness. Children must have access to knowledge of these controversial subjects, whether palatable or unpalatable."

The researchers also warned that a lack of subject knowledge among teachers - particularly at primary level - was leading to history being taught in a 'shallow way leading to routine and superficial learning'.

Click here to read the entire article.

Posted from LGF:

LGF reader NoSubmission was at the Rally Against Islamic Terrorism at Ground Zero in Manhattan, and has a slideshow of photographs: Rally Against Islamo-Fascism at Ground Zero *Updates cont’d!

Be sure to follow the link.  Great Stuff.

I was too weak to defend,
so I attacked.

- Robert E. Lee
after Chancellorsville

Posted from LGF:

Mark Steyn on the appalling fecklessness of the West in the face of undisguised Islamic supremacist aggression: Taking of hostages by Iran is not Britain’s finest hour.

The U.N. will do nothing for men seized on a U.N.-sanctioned mission. The European Union will do nothing for its “European citizens.” But if liberal transnationalism is a post-modern joke, it’s not the only school of transnationalism out there. Iran’s Islamic Revolution has been explicitly extraterritorial since the beginning: It has created and funded murderous proxies in Hezbollah, Hamas and both Shia and Sunni factions of the Iraq “insurgency.” It has spent a fortune in the stans of Central Asia radicalizing previously somnolent Muslim populations. When Ayatollah Khomeini announced the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, it was not Iranians but British, Indian, Turkish, European, Asian and American Muslims who called for his death, firebombed bookstores, shot his publisher, fatally stabbed his translator and murdered anybody who got in their way.

So we live today in a world of one-way sovereignty: American, British and Iraqi forces in Iraq respect the Syrian and Iranian borders; the Syrians and Iranians do not respect the Iraqi border. Patrolling the Shatt al-Arab at a time of war, the Royal Navy operates under rules of engagement designed by distant fainthearts with an eye to the polite fictions of “international law”: If you’re in a “warship,” you can’t wage war. If you’re in a “destroyer,” don’t destroy anything. If you’re in a “frigate,” you’re frigging done for.

On Sept. 11, a New York skyscraper was brought down by the Egyptian leader of a German cell of an Afghan terror group led by a Saudi. Islamism is only the first of many globalized ideological viruses that will seep undetected across national frontiers in the years ahead. Meanwhile, we put our faith in meetings of foreign ministers.

“It is better to be making the news than taking it,” wrote Winston Churchill in 1898. But his successors have gotten used to taking it, and the men who make the news well understand that.

Illustrated:

Here we go again folks.  If you read the story linked to below, you will be struck by some amazing contradictions.

Such as:

1.  A higher rise in temperature results in more food production, yet "more people will starve."  No real explanation for that one in the analysis.

2.  Polar ice caps melt resulting in more water released on the planet.  However, there will be less water for people to drink.  Words fail me on this one.

It's more of the same 'ol stuff.  What's really amazing is these 'scientists' apparent lack of any context.  The planet has been around for over 4 billion years.  The Earth has supported life in some form or another for at least half that time.  E.L.E.'s have occurred regularly throughout the planets history, yet life remains.

Also, no mention that over 99.9% of every species of plant and animal which has ever lived is extinct.  Yet with every mass extinction, life finds a way.

For more doom and gloom, read this. 

Question:  How many CFL's does it take to save the planet?

Another failed Democrat aiding Hillary?  Who'd a thunk it?

I love this:

Miss Ferraro, 71, now the managing director of a large corporate public relations and consultancy firm, has joined the former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright and Billie Jean King, the former tennis star, in a "rapid rebuttal force" of well-known women on standby to defend and promote Sen Clinton's candidacy. - emphasis mine.

Man, with liberal bastions of mental acuity like these, Hillary is a shoe in!

Ms. Ferraro doesn't want to see hillary "smeared", or see any "dirty tricks".  This coming from the party which sharpens these tactics to a razors edge every election season.

If you can stand it, the rest of the story is here.

What?  I didn't know tornadoes occurred in the spring?  I thought any bad weather anywhere on Earth was caused by global warming?

Of course it is, according to CBS.  Posted from Newsbusters:

Increased Tornadoes? Naturally, CBS Suspects Global Warming

Stay tuned until hurricane season for more dire climate change false logic.

 “It’s an hour of active, thoughtful darkness, a celebration of our awakening to climate-change action.”  - emphasis mine.

The GW kooks are out in force in Australia, but did they really do anything?

Posted from Newsbusters:

‘Sydney Blacks Out for Global Warming.’ Wanna Bet?

The hallmark of leadership is to act
upon convictions based on principles
rather than to pander to the whims
and fancies of the mob.

- Anwar Ibraham