Headlines Saturday 17th May

Verballing Andrews
Andrew Bolt
The Age tries a gotcha on former Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews
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Lawyers look the same in the dark
Andrew Bolt
So who was that man Cherie Blair slept with?

Not model weather
Andrew Bolt
Even global warming believers have noticed the world isn’t warming like the IPCC models predicted. This has sparked a debate with people they might once have counted as allies.
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O! Bama!
Andrew Bolt
Gerard Baker on the Messiah:

Every decade or so the people who control the way we see the world anoint some American politician the Redeemer of a Troubled Planet… The alert among you will have noticed by now that what all these spiritually uplifting leaders have in common. They are all Democrats. Never in any of the chapters of this hagiography does a Republican, a conservative, appear in a remotely similar light. These alien creatures by contrast have always been portrayed as cartoonish representatives of the Dark Side of humanity, or, if they were really lucky, simply idiots, failed B-movie actors and irredeemably ignorant hicks with embarrassingly neanderthal views on women, religion and communism.

It’s been a while coming - neither Al Gore in 2000 (before the luminescence created by his recent joint Nobel/Oscar triumphs) nor John Kerry in 2004 quite fit the bill. But it’s fairly clear now that, with the near-certain nomination by the Democrats of Barack Obama everything is in place for the media to indulge in one of the greatest, orgiastic media fiestas of hero-worship since Elvis Presley.

You will not see a finer example of the genre than the cover story of this week’s Newsweek, which was entitled ”The O Team”. This rhapsodic inside account of Senator Obama’s campaign reads a little like a cross between Father Alban Butler’s Life of St Francis and the sort of authorised biography of Kim Jong Il you can pick up in any good bookshop in Pyongyang.

What Baker describes is not reporting but projecting. Which is why no Republican will ever serve as a screen for the pixels of a Left-leaning commentariat.
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Sorry Sam
Andrew Bolt
I like Sam Newman a lot for simply daring to speak his mind. But Caroline Wilson reminds us that some minds are better left unsaid. I have to say I’m on her side in this, and she describes well how badly Newman hurt her.
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Exploding girls
Andrew Bolt
It’s astonishing what depravity some ideologies excuse
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Import workers, export multiculturalists
Andrew Bolt
Paul Kelly decribes a dumb decision being treated with a dangerous cure
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Even Gods must do details
Andrew Bolt
Paul Toohey on the decline of East Timor’s Mandela:
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How Rudd’s spiders spin
Andrew Bolt
Spin, spin, spin. Christian Kerr reports on the alcopops con

Earthquake softens China
Andrew Bolt
Der Spiegel notes China’s unusual handling of its earthquake disaster
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Not warming to Williams
Andrew Bolt
Graham Young of OnLine Opinion wants the ABC to sort out its chief science presenter, warming alarmist Robyn ”100 metres” Williams
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No black court
Andrew Bolt
Peter Faris, who set up the Aboriginal Legal Service in Alice Springs, says Victoria’s new Koori Court is racist, unnecessary and an attack on the great principle that we are all equal under the law
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Why was Farmer on the streets, Lauren's family asks?
By Lisa Davies
LAUREN Huxley's family has pleaded with the State Government to change parole and bail conditions in NSW, arguing the crime against the young woman should never have happened.
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Bush urged to stage humanitarian 'intervention' in Burma
By P. Parameswaran
US lawmakers today urged President George W. Bush to consider "humanitarian intervention" in cyclone-hit Burma after its military rulers refused to allow foreign experts to direct relief efforts despite rising deaths. - after all, the UN won't act.-ed
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Cops hope child killer will confess to more
COLD-case detectives hope notorious child killer Valmae Faye Beck will admit to more crimes now she's emerged from a coma.
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Greed killed kids, say quake survivors
Burma risking 'crimes against humanity'
Mokbel lands in Melbourne