Ezra Levant returns to our show for the second week and talks about how the blogosphere is the real power behind the fight back against Human Rights Commissions and other transgressions of the state. He tells us about the Union he has formed to protect bloggers from malicious legal threats.

He tells us that the left should be joining the right on these issues: it is only the "soft bigotry of low expectations" that stops the left realising the people they are silently supporting are against everything they claim to stand for.

You can follow this link to part 1 and you can find Ezra Levan't own website at ezralevant.com.

Tom also mentions Warren Kinsella and his site is linked.

In Blog News this week we visit Israellycool Dave with Banking on the Gullible.

The story about Bob Geldof praising George Bush and bashing the media I found on Libertas, the blog of the Liberty Film Festival.

House of Dumb provided the Fisking of the BBC's pitiful coverage of Danish riots.

The sound clip of the "new" creed for the Anglican Church comes from the classic TV show Not the Nine O'clock News. You can find the video to match it here.

Meryl Yourish returns to the show with another celebrity interview. You can find her must read site yourish.com.

As mentioned in the show, Evan Sayet would like you to know that if you're in Los Angeles on March 15th, he's staging a buffet and show package featuring his unique brand of conservative comedy, called Right to Laugh.

It's at the Ha Ha Cafe, 5010 Lankershim Blvd in North Hollywood.

Doors open at two for food and schmoozing with the show itself, kicking off at around three. Food and the show are just thirty dollars (tickets sold at the door), with free parking in the Bank of America lot across the street.

And you can read more of Evan's insightful and funny work at his blog.

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Ezra Levant is our guest this week. Ezra is the former publisher of Canada's Western Standard newspaper, who was famously hauled up in front of some sort of bogus Province of Alberta Kangaroo Court for a variety of thought crimes.

Show Exclusive: Shirlene McGovern, tormentor of Ezra, has asked to resign from his case! 

He fought back by arguing against the entire process, and posting a video of his encounter with the interrogator on You Tube. You can find all his videos and much more on his own website ezralevant.com.

This was the first of another 2 part interview and we'll continue next week.

In blog news this week we travel back a few hundred years to the time of Chaucer with "Here Bigynneth the Tale of the Asse-Htte. An Archbishop of Canterbury Tale" borrowed from the satirist (oh how unworthy are we of that title) Iowahawk.

The news that there are witches in Saudia Arabia is not a surprise. I wish it were even a surprise that they plan to behead one, but alas it is not so.

You can find the amazing story of the Mosque, so enlightened that they are considering letting in a dog here at Europenews.

The magnificent Lord's Prayer comes from the Blue Like You blog and from the cartoonist MacKay.

More on China and the Olympics can be found in the Daily Mail.

We also have our regular chat with Evan Sayet. You can find more of his work at his own site evansayet.com.

Doug Payton is talking about the death of Nahoul the Bee and his replacement by a rabbit. You can also find my posts on Israellycool about that here and here. Dave's post on the modes of death for the rabbit is: Different ways to skin a rabbit.

Former SNN contributor, Andrew Ian Dodge's website can be found here.

From magnificent Canadian cartoonist MacKay:

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