I have a huge pile of work on my desk to be completed between now and next Tuesday, so I need to be brief. Here are some controversial articles for you to chew over while I’m away.

Take women out of the workplace to improve the economy

Of course there will always be a place in the world of business for exceptional women. Women also have an important role to play in jobs that are too demeaning for men, like teaching. But the general employment of women is another matter. Indeed, working women almost certainly caused the credit crunch by bringing a second income into the average household, pushing property prices up to unsustainable levels.

Whether working women actually caused the credit crunch is now a moot point. The point is that removing women from the workforce would mitigate its effects.

Consider the issue of unemployment. There were 221,301 men on the live register last month and just under one million women in work.

Surely at least half these women have a partner who is earning? Surely at least half would be happier at home? One half of one half is a quarter and one quarter of a million is roughly 221,301. I think we can all see where this argument is going.

It would be ludicrous to suggest that women should be sacked purely to give men their jobs. In many cases, their jobs should be abolished as well.

When you look at the amount of unnecessary bureaucratic and paper-pushing jobs that have been created by/for women, you must give pause. I’ve been working since I was 15, and very few of those jobs were what I would call necessary to any company I worked for. In many cases, if they had eliminated some of their own internal red tape, those jobs wouldn’t have ever existed. Interesting.

Is global warming “on hold”?

[A] groundbreaking new study conducted by Kyle Swanson and Anastasios Tsonis of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee suggests that several different climate processes have aligned with one another, effectively “conspiring to chill the climate.” The study cites events in 1997 and 1998, when the Pacific Ocean warmed rapidly in a “super El Nino event,” which jolted the oceans and atmosphere into collusion.

“Cooling events since [the 1950s] had firm causes, like eruptions or large-magnitude La Ninas. This current cooling doesn’t have one,” says Swanson. While greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have increased, the temperatures have not. In short, this fact has confounded global warming alarmists across the globe. The study by Swanson and Tsonis only helps to steal some of the “sky is falling” urgency from the claims of people like Dr. James Hansen, John Coleman, and others. There’s an unmistakable rift growing between the claims that we’re responsible for warming the planet and the mounting evidence that contradicts those claims.

Global warming is the new fashionable religion for those who don’t find traditional religions fashionable. And like a religion, there is big money to be made. Al Gore has won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. Canadians can’t get rid of David Suzuki. They’ve taken our light bulbs away! But is it a real problem, or is it just weather?

Israeli Apartheid – it isn’t about Antisemitism, dammit!

Tonight at the U of T [Israeli Apartheid Week] event, two Jewish students were assaulted by the Palestinian “Security” team for being “disruptive” (asking a legitimate question “does Israel have a right to exist”) The Palestinian “security” smacked a student in the head and grabbed him by his neck, while another “security” officer told a second Jewish student to “Shut the F**ck up or he’ll saw his head off”…All of this was done in a crowded lecture room with over 100 witnesses!!

I was there, there are no pictures, filming and taking pictures was prohibited (they seem to have a problem with the general public hearing what they say) it was reported to the police who chose (as usual) to do NOTHING…

Our charming mainstream media hasn’t picked up on this, of course. Can someone who believes that hatred of Zionism isn’t about hatred of Jews please explain to me what kind of drugs they’re taking, so I can buy some, too?

RightGirl on Michael Coren tomorrow