Monday digest

- Imagine what would happen to the likes of this pop culture icon and apologist for terror if she was living in an Islamic country - let's say, for instance, American "ally" Saudi Arabia or the one ruled by the hostage-takers she defends in the clip I've linked to above.

She'd be hanging upside down, all right, wouldn't she?

For some reason, I don't think the likes of O'Donnell and the far left, Hollywood liberal crowd are going to get as revved up about Iran's blatant violation of the Geneva Conventions as they do when American soldiers put panties on an al-Qaeda members' head.

But don't dare call them unpatriotic ... right?

- Some British schools have removed the Holocaust from the curriculum for fear of provoking Muslim students.

Please tell me this is an April Fool's joke, because if it's not, I'm laughing through tears.

- Speaking of April Fool's Day, news aggregator National Newswatch said yesterday that Ben Mulroney was going to run for the Conservatives in a Montreal-area riding. It was all a prank, of course, but after Harper's party blew almost a billion in corporate welfare today in the heart of that same city, would it be really all that surprising considering how it feels like 1987 all over again?

Golden comment on the announcement from a McGill management prof in this piece: "It kind of reflects a more Conservative economic philosophy". Could his observation have been more equivocal? It sounds like what he's saying is that a Paul Martin Liberal government would have done exactly the same thing.

The redistributionist, statist, big-government, tax-and-spend Trudeaupian ethic, complete with pandering to Quebec, continues apace.

This complete and total sell-out is thoroughly disgusting, and any conservative who isn't, at the very least, uneasy with this government's moves thus far is nothing more than a partisan hack.

I am very much looking forward to donning my old Reform party baseball cap, going down to the polling station, and spoiling my ballot come the next federal election.

- How much of a jerk do you have to be to send in fraudulent claims for damages that you didn't suffer during Hurricane Katrina?

- Between December and February, the number of deaths due to violence in Baghdad dropped by almost 2/3.

- More about intellectual dishonesty on campus, here.