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• Sir Elton John, in his infinite wisdom, understands that the internet is not a truck. He does not, however, have any idea what it is or what it's used for, and thinks the tubes should be shut down for five years because music was better when we communicated by telegraph and carrier pigeon. Take that, Radiohead!
  
  
• Send Leonard to CPAC. I promise, it's an investment in making a brighter future for all of us.
  
  
• Democrats are learning from Ronald Reagan's approach to the Cold War: they're trying to get the GOP to spend so much money that they can no longer function.
  
  
• If you're a Christian in America and you feel persecuted because of your faith, Congress has a bill in the works that will help protect you from the godless hordes that make up a small minority of the U.S. population. Note: occasionally incurring the wrath of a deranged lunatic, while certainly tragic, doesn't count as "persecution." Other religions have to deal with the wrath of deranged lunatics too, who are often far more organized.
  
  
• Mitt Romney scores the endorsement of the National Review.
  
  
• In a shocking turn of events, Pope Benedict XVI has broken with millennia of Catholic tradition of nurturing scientific progress and declared global warming to be nothing but "scare-mongering."
  
  
• Mike Huckabee wants Duncan Hunter to be his Secretary of Defense. Eep.
  
  
• What will the political world do when David Yepsen dies and they don't have anyone to explain what's going on in Iowa?
  

And now, for your education, here are a series of informational links about America's Mayor, Rudy Giuliani (thanks to Leonard at Sadly, No, and an unnamed former NYC government employee for supplying some of these links):

1. Regarding his newfound hatred for illegal aliens.
2. Regarding his dubious knowledge of the Iranian Hostage Crisis.
3. Regarding his leadership on 9/11, and his dedication to law and order.
4. Regarding his business relationships with known terrorists.
5. Regarding his stellar handling of race relations in New York.
6. Regarding the police force of which he was so proud.
7. Regarding his views on freedom of the press.
8. Regarding his views on freedom of expression. (Quote of the day: “Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do,” Giuliani said early in his tenure as mayor. “You have free speech so I can be heard.”)
9. And for anyone who thinks they missed anything, you can review with this quiz.

As a bonus today, I will also offer you some choice quotes from presidential candidates in regards to global warming:

Fred Thompson: There are a lot of unanswered questions. We don't know to the extent this is a cyclical thing. This may or may not effect very much. The extremists are the ones who want to do drastic things to our economy before we have more answers as to how much good we can do and whether people in the other parts of the world are going to contribute. It's the fact that our entitlements are bankrupting the next generation. We're spending the money of those yet to be born and we can't continue that way.

Mitt Romney: I don't wanna have America unilaterally think it's somehow gonna stop global warming. They don't call it America warming. They call it global warming. And that means China, which is the biggest Co2 emitter in the world, as well as other nations like Indonesia and Brazil are gonna have to be a part of the global effort. So Kyotowas wrong, because it left major polluting nations out.

And my personal favorite, from Mike Huckabee: And we ought to declare that we will be free of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is.