6-24-08

Next Great Idea: Put Iran on the U.N. Security Council. If you can’t beat them, give them more profile and power!

A Double from NewsBusters: Al Qaeda’s Law Firm and CNN Legal Analyst Spouts Liberal Claims About Second Amendment

Spengler: Muslims are in dialogue with a pope who evidently does not merely want to exchange pleasantries about coexistence, but to convert them. This no doubt will offend Muslim sensibilities, but Muslim leaders are well-advised to remain on good terms with Benedict XVI. Worse things await them. There are 100 million new Chinese Christians, and some of them speak of marching to Jerusalem - from the East…Islam is in danger for the first time since its founding. The evangelical Christianity to which George W Bush adheres and the emerging Asian church are competitors with whom it never had to reckon in the past. The European Church may be weak, but no weaker, perhaps, than in the 8th century after the depopulation of Europe and the fall of Rome. An evangelizing European Church might yet repopulate Europe with new Christians as it did more than a millennium ago.

Old Town Bob…Listener editorial: Will we someday run out of oil? No. What did I just say? I said no. We will have developed a replacement for oil long before we run out just as humankind has developed new technologies to replace old throughout history. In the 20’s the big scare was that we were running out of coal but already oil was beginning to replace it as a power source. Today we have an estimated 100 year supply of coal sitting were it is easily recoverable.

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