Saturday digest

- Not like this is really news or anything, but Michael Moore has proven once again that he's nothing more than a bald-faced liar. This week on ABC with interviewer Terry Moran, he said the following:

Michael Moore: "They have an excellent health care system, probably the best in the Third World. There is not religious persecution. There's artistic freedom. I went–"

Terry Moran: "There's artistic freedom in Cuba?"

Moore: "Oh, yeah. I hung out with artists who are critical of Castro and, and, and very freely speak their minds."

How can anyone consider this man to be a serious person after he makes laughable assertions like that one?

- Here's a great article from the excellent Michael Coren which takes the piss out of righteous celebs and their pet causes.

- The loony left play of the day today goes to the organizers of UCLA's spring concovations, where they're promoting separate ceremonies for members of various ethnic groups.

This is just the latest example of how political correctness rooted in identity politics and Marxism continues to run amok at institutes of left-wing indoctrination higher learning across the West.

- Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, has written an insightful piece on how the climate change crowd is the latest to promote the idea of the "one permitted truth", which is to say that dissent and disagreement with certain assumptions and positions on a given issue is just not tolerated by those on the other side.

An excerpt:

The author Michael Crichton stated it clearly: “the greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda”. I feel the same way, because global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem. It requires courage to oppose the “established” truth, although a lot of people – including top-class scientists – see the issue of climate change entirely differently. They protest against the arrogance of those who advocate the global warming hypothesis and relate it to human activities.

As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning.

The environmentalists ask for immediate political action because they do not believe in the long-term positive impact of economic growth and ignore both the technological progress that future generations will undoubtedly enjoy, and the proven fact that the higher the wealth of society, the higher is the quality of the environment. They are Malthusian pessimists.

Read the whole thing for yourself.