The Canadian Human Rights Commission has to be one of the most worthless, servile, and stupid organizations -- down right facist -- ever to grace the Western World.

They have declared that there is no connection between food contamination and hand washing in a case to determine whether McDonald's had fulfilled its obligations to an employee who could no longer work in a restaurant because of the hand washing requirement.

Oh well. No restaurant food in Canada for me.

H/T: Mark Steyn @ National Review Online.

One of the silliest arguments that I hear travellers in leftist politics in this country make is that George W. Bush has squandered America's moral authority and destroyed our traditional allliances with our friends in Europe.  This alleged situation was brought to a head with Don Rumsfeld's salient -- if somewhat impolite -- comment about "Old Europe v New Europe".

But consider this:  "Old Europe" seems to be coming around.

Senator HRC has called on George W. to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics over the harsh oppression of Tibet.  I am actually sympathetic to this call.  Frankly, given the 40 million Chinese that have been murdered under the Communist Regime, I find it shameful that the IOC even awarded them an Olympic Games.  My TV will definitely NOT be tuned into any contest.

But I wonder, when did HRC come to this belief?  Was she so principled back in the 1990s when Johnny Chung was carrying millions in illegal campaign contributions from the ChiComs into her husband's White House in paper grocery bags?

"Dumbass".  It is word that should resound with Congressman, as they fit the definition perfectly.  As Michelle Malkin notes, federal prosecutors now know that a trip to Iraq before the run-up to the invasion was paid for-- lock, stock, and barrel -- by Saddam Hussein.

Federal prosecutors say Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion.

The Congressman were "Baghdad Jim" McDermott, David Bonior, and Mike Thompson.

The trip, of course, was funded through an intermediary named Muthanna Al-Hanooti, who was paid with oil for his troubles.  That's right.  Oil from Iraq, which at the time was under some pretty damn stringent international sanctions.  Its good to know that they were working.

Prosecutors claim that the Congressmen did not know the trip was paid for by Saddam. 

Yeah, and there really is a leprechaun guarding a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow.

The Supreme Court has issued its ruling in Medellin v Texas, and that ruling -- a 6-3 decision -- is a slam dunk victory for our nation, our Constitution, and all of us as citizens.

The Supreme Court has essentially ruled that international treaties cannot be used to rewrite state law unless Congress has acted proactively to enact Federal statutes to that effect.

This case should be viewed as hallmark victory for those of us who reject the imposition of foreign law and jurisprudence on citizens who neither voted for those laws nor for lawmakers to vote for those laws.

Turkey may be entering a period of severe constitutional crisis, and I would look carefully at the movement of Turkish military troops in and around Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir.  According to the English language Turkish Daily News Online, Chief Public Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalçinkaya has filed a court motion to shut down the ruling party.

Walter E. Williams, one of the most talented and intelligent economists I have ever had the privilege to read, has an extremely compelling column about the hoax that is ethanol.  Williams repeats the basic arguments (and empirical evidence) against President Bush's stupid and short-sighted ethanol policy. 

But I want to address one component of Williams column that deserves further examination:  the overwhelmingly protectionist, if not outright disastrous, tariff on Brazilian ethanol.

The next time George W. Bush, or Condi Rice, or any pundit wants to talk about Islam as the "Religion of Peace', put them to this article. Because in Islam, a lot of those believers think the idea of "honor killing" is all good and well.

Today is a day of questions. I have seen Hillary Clinton's new Campaign Commercial.  This is the one that starts out with the line about it being 3am and your kids are asleep, and there is a phone in the White House.  It is awfully reminiscent of Walter Mondale's 1984 ad of the same theme.  And it raises in me some questions:

1)  Do you really think it is smart to rehash campaign commercials from a man who lost 49 states?  If not, the Wendy's commerical "Where's the Beef?" should be out of copyright protection by now.

2)  From January of 1993 to January of 2001, who answered that phone at the White House?  Was that Monica's job pre- "in flagrante delicto"?

3)  Who answered the phone when Louis Freeh called and had hard evidence the Iranians were behind the Khobar Towers bombing?

4)  Who answered the phone when the CIA called with an opportunity to assassinate Osama Bin Laden pre-9/11?

5)  Who answered the phone when we uncovered the plot to assasinate former president George H.W. Bush?

6)  Who answered the phone when the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania -- sovereign US soil under international law -- were bombed?

7)  Who answered the phone when we knew who and why the World Trade Center was bombed (the first time)?

8)  Who answered the phone when the USS Cole was bombed?

Quite frankly, I remember those years pretty well.  And it seems to me that your husband's White House didn't even have voicemail for the phone back then.  Much less anyone to answer it.

The Joint Staff at the Pentagon, under direction from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, has begun preparing for a Democrat Victory at the polls in November.  Expecting massive cuts to Defense Spending under a Democrat President in order to fund condom instruction in public schools, Transgender Liberty Rallies across the country, and the long hoped-for National House Cleaning and Leave Raking Initiative ("Leave no bottle of Pledge behind!"), the military anticipates that it will have to make do with less, and quickly.

Some photographs of their plans have leaked, and we have them. This is an EXCLUSIVE for the Gunpowder Chronicle. You can view them on our Image Gallery page.