Thursday digest

- The PM is non-comittal on the need to cut gas taxes. This is troubling, considering that in 2004, he said that when prices are above 85 cents a litre, the feds need to step in to reduce excise taxes on fuel. Now, he's saying that the 1% GST cut will be enough to take the pressure off. The budget, which will be delivered in a couple of weeks, should contain some kind of relief at the pumps in addition to the absolutely pathetic 1% GST cut (where you have to spend $100 to save $1). After all, he's supposed to be a conservative, right?

- It looks like we've got our own in-house Noam Chomsky at Rideau Hall. Check out these conspiracy theories, outlined in an upcoming documentary film by Jean-Daniel Lafond, otherwise known as Mr. Michaelle Jean:

The film also gives voice to two rather spectacular conspiracy theories. One suggests that the Carter administration allowed agents of the Ayatollah Khomeini to arrange assassinations of his political enemies on U.S. soil in exchange for opening negotiations to free American hostages held by revolutionaries in Iran. The other -- the so-called "October Surprise" theory -- holds that campaign aides of Ronald Reagan and the President's father, George H. W. Bush, made a secret deal offering to supply arms to Khomeini in exchange for preventing the release of American hostages in Tehran until after the 1980 presidential election, in order to help defeat Jimmy Carter.

What?

I'm sure Oliver Stone/Cindy Sheehan/Ward Churchill and the rest of the Far Left will just eat this stuff up.

- How would a Hilary Clinton White House deal with Iran? Timothy Garton Ash tries to answer that question.

- The global warming crowd needs to take a chill pill.

- This fellow says that the black community should support electronic eavesdropping programs because any future terrorist attack on a major American city would disproportionately impact African-Americans.

I think it's pretty sad in 2006, calls to support policies intended to thwart and prevent the deliberate and calculated mass murder of innocent and unsuspecting civilians are being made on the basis of racial solidarity rather than the simple fact that men, women and children of all backgrounds will be killed.