Keven Rudd sure doesn’t seem to be messing around. He’s been talking for a while about emphasizing three E’s while in office– Economy, Education and Environment. Only hours after getting into office, he has already ratified the Kyoto Protocol to limit greenhouse emissions. Since China and India wouldn’t have faced any limits, [...]

The remarkable thing about this clip isn’t that some guy on TV was so mind-bogglingly ignorant. It’s the advice given by the audience.

At PR’s request, here are a couple videos of Australia’s new Prime Minister speaking Chinese. This first one is a CCTV interview (part 1 of 3), in which we get to hear him speak at length in Chinese.

This second video is bit harder to make any sense of. It’s a comedian making fun [...]

This, from the BBC:

Mr Rudd will focus on education, environment and the economy
Australia’s Prime Minister-elect, Kevin Rudd, has announced the make-up of his new Labor government.
He appointed Julia Gillard as deputy PM and education minister, and a former rock star, Midnight Oil singer Peter Garrett, as environment minister.
Penny Wong becomes the country’s first Asian-born minister, [...]

Stupid in America is a 20/20 investigation into the failures of K-12 schooling in the US. John Stossel interviews a variety of teachers, students, parents and administrators in the US and in Belgium. It’s particularly interesting for me because I’ve experienced it from so many sides. I’ve been at all kinds of [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama laid out list of political shortcomings he sees in the Bush administration but said he opposes impeachment for either President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.
…
“I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breaches, and intentional breaches of the president’s authority,” he said.
USA Today.com- Obama: [...]

According to the US Federal Election Commission Selected Presidential Reports for the 2007 July Quarterly, current soldiers and veterans have contributed more money to Ron Paul than to any other presidential candidate, with John McCain coming in second amongst GOP candidates.
Military contributions for GOP candidates

Army
Navy
USAF
USMC
VET
TOTAL

Ron Paul
6975
7765
4650
1500
1250
22140

McCain
6225
6480
1570
1600
800
16675

Romney
2051
0
1500
0
1000
4551

Giuliani
1450
370
250
0
250
2320

Hunter
0
1000
0
0
0
1000

Richardson
50
750
0
0
0
800

Huckabee
250
0
500
0
0
750

Tancredo
350
0
0
0
0
350

Brownback
71
0
0
0
0
71

Thompson
0
0
0
0
0
 

This table expresses in dollars the total campaign contributions that [...]

Ron Paul’s speech was so popular that Google had to use an overflow room. What a crowd!
Google executive Elliot Schrage: “Usually I end up asking questions for about 20 minutes, half an hour, and then we open this up for questions from our audience here. I’m impressed to say we’ve never gotten so many [...]

According to the Washington Bureau Chief, the Senate has passed the “Lieberman Amendment” on Senate Bill 1547: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. With a final vote of 97-0, the bill is passed and the possibility of another war has just inched forward.
WASHINGTON - The Senate Wednesday put aside a growing schism [...]

Aaron Russo interviews Ron Paul about the Federal Reserve in his movie Freedom to Fascism. For the time being, the entire movie is up on Google video. The following is a short clip in which Russo grills Paul on the Fed.

Ron Paul 0wnz the Federal Reserve
Ron Paul is much more moderate in his [...]