Zeal For Truth

The all-time one day fund raising record was broken on Sunday by Congressman Ron Paul. His supporters staged a fund raising “moneybomb” on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, raising a record $6 million. Naturally all that most of the media wants to talk about is that $500 comes from a white supremacist.

Huck in the News
Mike Huckabee is clearly not the most intelligent man. Aside from exadurating about his formal education (Huckabee lied about having a theology degree) we now have to wonder if he knows what he’s doing regarding foreign policy:

You just don’t want to believe that a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, two steps from power in the free world, really thought that Canada had a national igloo. When Rick Mercer comes on the phone to talk about Mike Huckabee, we expect he’ll explain it was a joke. Surely, he’ll assure us that the wisecracking former Arkansas governor was just playing along for a laugh in Mercer’s now-iconic Talking To Americans television spots…. “He wasn’t in on it,” Mercer says. “The governor of Arkansas thought there was a Canadian national igloo. The governor of Arkansas would have believed the world was flat.”

We Three Kings of Orient Aren’t?
The UK Telegraph wrote up a controversy generating piece: Archbishop says nativity ‘a legend’.According to Bryan in our forums, the transcript shows that this was a botched hack-job at best.

Environmental Hysteria (possibly)
US Senate passes a bill raising fuel efficiency standards to 35 mpg. Chrysler estimates meeting the standards will cost $6,700 per vehicle.

Has Global Warming stopped?

More Links
Two prisoners escape a New Jersey prison by putting posters over their escape route.

Vladimir Putin is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.

Harold Meyerson examines the “mountain of moral, and mortal, hypocrisy that is our Christianized Republican Party.“