Shire Network News is back and this week we continue with Part 2 of our interview with journalist Bill Bishop, author of "The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart".  He says America is increasingly divided, not just politically, but by basic, fundamental world views.

You can find his book at Amazon: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart.

In blog news this week we look at the use of sniffer dogs in the UK. Guess which religion has a problem with sniffer dogs. I don't know, they had the cutest beagle at JFK. Adorable.

For more Latin Mottos for Obama, head over to IMAO. And I will apologise for my merciless massacre of the Latin. Sorry.

For the full comedy video from Canada, head over to YouTube. Beware.... there be bad language there!

This week's new boy is Peter Glover. You can find his blog and other work here. Say hello and tell us what you think in the comments.

And you can find out more about Evan and his show, "Right to Laugh" at his website: http://www.evansayet.com/

This week's show is hosted by former tea boy, Doug Payton. The feature interview this week is with journalist Bill Bishop, author of "The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart".  He says America is increasingly divided, not just politically, but by basic, fundamental world views.

You can find his book at Amazon: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart .

We have blog news this week, but you'll have to listen to the show to find out what's in it!

After a long period spent doing... who knows what, Damian Penny is back with a piece on the Canadian free speech fights.

Meryl Yourish turns in a piece this week on a wide variety of subjects.

Tom Paine has his usual chat with Evan Sayet. You can find his blog here.

Every now and then, someone in the Left takes a long look around and realises that there might be something in the state of  their movement. Latest in this distinguished line is Martin Bright the political editor with the left-leaning New Statesman magazine.

When Israel marked it's 60th anniversary recently, he decided to marek the occasion by publishing an article questioning the Left's increasingly hysterical assaults on the country, which have escalated from criticism of individual policies to an outright questioning of it's very legitimacy and existence.

The article was called "The Great Betrayal".

As regular listeners to Shire Network News will probably have guessed by listening to our previous chats with another UK left wing journalist Nick Cohen, who also raised these issues, Martin Bright found that the sky fell on him.

In blog news this week we take a look at a video that LGF linked to guessing what today's media might have said about the D-Day landings.

Are you in fact, not ready to be A Good Democrat and just pull the lever for Obama. There are some signs, as listed in the website "Don't Be a Good Democrat".

George Galloway supports Obama for president. What a surprise. Thank you Memri for bringing us more from this odious cretin.

EU allows privacy invasion of Americans. Another shock I know.

Doug Payton has sent in something this week about a lawless city. Can you guess where?

Shire Network News is hosted from Virginia this week by Meryl Yourish, who does not stint on her patented juvenile scorn

The feature interview this week is with Ann Bayefsky, editor of the Eye on the UN website and Director of the Touro College Institute of Human Rights and the Holocaust.

She says the 2001 Durban Conference on Racism, which turned into an anti-semitic hatefest, is being repeated shortly in Geneva, and as happened the first time, it's been hijacked by Islamic countries, who seem bent on widening the focus to include taking away the right to free speech. The nerve of those guys! Where do they think they are? Canada?

In Blog News, Europe votes on who should be US President! Is ignored. Gets pants in bunch. Complains bitterly, cries, drinks more wine. Situation normal in other words.

Father Michael Pfleger reveals his speech at the Trinity Church in Chicago which got him and the church into so much hot water last week was a huge misunderstanding. He was under the impression he was auditioning for the lead rile in the new movie "Honkey preacher-dude be seriously TRIPPIN'!"

Christian preachers arrested on the streets of a British town for...well, for being Christian preachers. Turns out they were in one of those Mulsim "no-go" zones everyone keeps saying don't exist.

And the British Royal Marines instantaneously cave in when Malaysia complains about one of their recruiting ads. Hey Royal Marines, forget it. It's not as if Malaysia flicked your ears, stole your iPod and called you "Mr Bean". That's the Iranians. Malaysia is a totally different Muslim country for you to surrender to without firing a shot.

And Robert Mugabe has reached a new low, even by Zimbabwe's pitiful standards. His mishandling of the country is now being openly lampooned by South African radio personalities. Hey, we hear Farmer Bob is in Italy attending a UN Food conference this week (whoa, our irony meter just exploded!) Gee, where's George Monbiot when you actually need him?

Shire Network News is so called because the man who started it, "Tom Paine" hails originally from New Zealand, which did such a great job of looking exactly like Tolkein's Shire in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings.

This week's show is hosted from New Zealand by well known Kiwi blogger Murray, whose work you can find at Hitting Metal With a Hammer. And no, he is not related to Gimli. As far as we know. Gimli's just nowhere nearly as aggressive and warlike as Murray.

This week's guest is Dr Walid Phares, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies where he focuses on Middle East history and politics, global terrorist movements, democratization and human rights.

He speaks to us about the Hizbollah intimidation of the government of Lebanon, and whatever happened to the amazing disappearing Bush doctrine.

In Blog News this week, Muslim radicals show maximum respect to the fearsome UK constabulary, is Barak Obama's mysterious middle name actually "Neville", we ask why Londoners are confused as to why some guy can get stabbed to death in broad daylight in Oxford St, what length the Yorkshire Ripper's sentence ought to be (and should it be measured in years or length of rope) and Murray tells the rest of the world why they should use New Zealand as a horrible example of what happens when a government actually believes in global warming and signs Kyoto.

We have our regular chat with Evan Sayet and you can pre-order his new book on Amazon.

And Meryl Yourish is along to make fun of someone's name. But he deserves it.

This week's guest is Patti Patton-Bader, founder of Soldiers Angels, which organises a surprisingly vast array of methods by which you, the ordinary civillian at home, can show real support for the troops.

Whether it be by sending care packages, baked goods, blankets and cards, providng practical assistance for soldiers families, assisting chaplains with their work, or even organising voice-activated laptop computers for wounded soldiers, Soldiers Angels can help you to help the troops.

Go visit www.soldiersangels.org. You will also find news there of the Mom of the Year award that Patti received on Mother's day in the US.

In Blog News this week we talk about Sheik Ali Al-Faqir's appearance on Al Aqsa TV as reported by Memri. Apparently main stream opinion in Islam is that the whole world should be conquered by Jihad. What a surprise.

Obama thinks there are 58 states in the US. It's all over the blogs.

For video of Jeremy Bowen under fire (and not by Israel either) you can look at the BBC site.

This week we have a contribution from Doug Payton. He's terribly worried by the changes in the weight of the standard Kilogram.

We have our regular chat with Evan Sayet and you can pre-order his new book on Amazon.

This week week we conclude our chat with Prof Barry Rubin, Director, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and Editor, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal .

As we approach the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the modern state of Israel, Barry joins us to talk about his latest reprinting of "The Israel Arab Reader". The book provides over 300 original source documents and gives a massive amount of background into the Israeli Arab struggle.

In Blog news this week we cover such delights as the BBC's new advert to remind people in Britain that they can go to jail for not paying up their Telly Tax. Biased BBC has the video.

The Wall Street Journal has more about the "Hostile" environment at Dartmouth.

Our own Meryl Yourish brought to our attention the disgrace words of Tom Levitt. You can read more here.

We have our regular chat with Evan Sayet and you can pre-order his new book on Amazon.

Meryl Yourish is talking about the reason Israel needs a strong army and air force. It's not complicated, Jews just don't think the UN is up to protecting them.

The version of Hatikva I play at the end of the show can be bought as part of the boxed set linked to here. Do consider it, the rest of the performances are terrific too.

We have been nominated for an award. Oh dear.

This week week's guest is Prof Barry Rubin, Director, Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and Editor, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal .

As we approach the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the modern state of Israel, Barry joins us to talk about his latest reprinting of "The Israel Arab Reader". The book provides over 300 original source documents and gives a massive amount of background into the Israeli Arab struggle.

In blog news this week we cover the news that Israel bombed a North Korean built nuclear bomb fuel plant in Syria last September. Click if you want to see the full lyrics of Bob Dylan's Neighborhood Bully.

The summing up of the US election race if from Red State Update. Genius. We found it via HotAir.

We also have work from Meryl Yourish, Doug Payton and Damian Penny. Be sure to follow all their blogs.

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Our interview this week is with Kate McMillanof Small Dead Animals and Kathy Shaidleof Five Feet of Fury, two of the Canadian bloggers being sued by former Human Rights Commission employeeRichard Warman.

Richard Warman has been caughtout by several Canadian websites using Canada's human rights machinery to make claims and collect money based onincitefulspeechposted on websites.

Speech which sometimeswas posted by...Richard Warman, using various pseudonyms.

In Blog News we look at the Hamasendorsement of Barak Obama. The audio clip we play is taken from the Powerline blog.

We speak about theAustralian Labor Government's 2020 conference. You honestly don't want to read any more about it.

For more on the weird Fatwa ofthe week,take a look at the reverential treatment the BBC give it.

DougPayton is talkingabout the illegality of refusing to photograph Lesbians. Sounds like a sensible law to me. More details here.

We have our regularchatwith Evan Sayet andyoucan pre-order his newbook on Amazon

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This week we continue a deep and meaningful discussion that ranges across the political spectrum. Douglas Murray andNickCohenjoin Tom Paine to disucuss the failures on both Left and Right to come to terms with a Jihadi threat.

On the Right we have Douglas Murray, the director of the think tank, CentreforSocial Cohesion and the author of "Neo-Conservatism:WhyWeNeed It".

From the Left, broadly speaking, as he's not on good terms with most of his former comrades just at present,isBritishjournalist Nick Cohen, author of "What's Left: How Liberals Lost their Way".

This is the second of a two part disucssion and should not be missed. They explore the failing of the left and of partsoftheright to come to terms with the real enemy everyone is facing. You can find part one here.

In blog news this week I talk about the "Free Speech in an age of Jihad" conference I attended. Atlas Shrugs has much more about it.

Free Speech is now officially under attack, and as some of the Canuck Six are just private citizens with little corporatebacking, do please visit Small DeadAnimals and Five Feet of Fury

And seeing as we'reliving in the 21st century with this her newfangled internet thingy, you can also buy the t-shirt.

If you don't believe us about the banning of Jerusalem, the DailyMail has the story.

We have our regular chat with Evan Sayet and you can pre-order his newbook on Amazon

Meryl Yourish is also back on the show with a rant about Carter

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This week we have a deep and meaningful discussion that ranges across the political spectrum. Douglas Murray and Nick Cohenjoin Tom Paine to disucuss the failures on both Left and Right to come to terms with a Jihadi threat.

On the Right we have Douglas Murray, the director of the think tank, Centre forSocial Cohesion and the author of "Neo-Conservatism:Why We Need It".

From the Left, broadly speaking, as he's not on good terms with most of his former comrades just at present, is Britishjournalist Nick Cohen, author of "What's Left: How Liberals Lost their Way".

This is the first of a two part disucssion and should not be missed. They explore the failing of the left and of parts ofthe right to come to terms with the real enemy everyone is facing

In blog news this week we look at the case of the 8 men accused of trying to blow aeroplanes out of the sky. Naughty,naughty if you jumped to the conclusion that this might involve Islam.

We are also looking in to the sex scandal involving Max Mosley. You can do your own google search for the sex tape. Youdon't need my help.

I cover a little personal trip I took to a conference in New York. Details can be found here.

We have our regular chat with Evan Sayet and you can pre-order hisnew book on Amazon

Doug Payton is covering more Obama magic and makes reference to flying penguines. You can see the BBC footage of these bygoing here.

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For the second week, our guest is British MP for Wells, David Heathcote-Amery.

In the interests of getting the show out, full show notes will follow in a day or so.

This week's show features Meryl Yourish and our regular chat with EvanSayet. Be sure to take a look at their web sites from time to time. You can pre-order Evan's new book here at Amazon

Our guest this week is British Member of Parliament for Wells, David Heathcote-Amery. He is talking to Tom Paine about theprecarious state of democracy in Europe with a new European constitution (in all but name) being rammed down the throats of anunwilling populace. In the first of a two part interview he covers his feelings for Europe and what he would form he would liketo see European co-operation take.

Brian of London is back hosting the show this week. In blog news we cover the Church in North Carolina that doesn't thinkits right to teach crucification and resurrection to kids as part of the Easter story. More details here.

It's hard not to laugh at a story when police are called in to investigate the alleged racism of a stuffed animal.A hate crime for a stuffed toy, yeah.

In Melbourne a "priest" thinks that Easter shouldn't be a public holiday. I say "priest" but really.... moredetails here.

We have a piece from both DougPayton and our regular chat with EvanSayet. Be sure to take a look at their web sites from time to time. You can pre-order Evan's new book here at Amazon

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This week's show comes to you, not from London, and not even from our emergency backup studio in Australia. No, Shire Network News this week is hosted by Meryl Yourish in Richmond VA!

The feature interview is a continuation of the discussion from last week with retired Green Beret Lt Col Gordon Cucullu, who is worried about the increasing cultural gap between western military forces and the civillian population.

This week Meryl backs up CAMERA's catching out of the BBC in yet another blatant lie about Israel, and wonders if their public admissions about their attitudes towards Jews might have something to do with that.

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference says it's going to sue anyone who criticises Islam by suggesting they're over sensitive to criticism. Hey, we don't make this stuff up, we just report it.

Barak Obama's pastor, the one whose sermons he apparently managed not to hear for, oh, the last 20 years, has his views on race and history dissected.

Rolling Stone magazine's incisive, hard-hitting, take-no prisoners reputation for solid old-school political reportage is further enhanced with a cover showing Barak Obama wreathed in a halo of light. There was no angelic choir in the background, but I guess you're supposed to just imagine that bit.

We hear from SNN contributor Tomer Israeli in Jerusalem about what it's like living in a country where a sizable proportion of the citizens want to kill you.

Hollywood entertainer and conservative convert-from-leftism Evan Sayet comments on what it means now that playwright David Mamet has seen the light.

And for the latest Barak Obama Hopeful Change news, go watch this video on You Tube. It won't leave you unchanged. We hope.

For those of you interested in secret trials behind closed doors, it turns out you don't have to visit some third world hell-hole to find one. Mark Steyn and MacLeans magazine are trying to make a star chamber proceeding in Canada open to the press, and you can help. For details, click here.

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This week's feature interview is with former Green Beret Lt Col Gordon Cucullu, who says there's a growing cultural rift between the US military and civillian society, which is endangering preparedness to face unexpected challenges, such as the Venezuela/Colombia War of 2008.

What's that? You hadn't heard about that potential regional conflict which might drag the US in? Precisely the Colonel's point.

We look at how new technology is enabling private citizens to have their own radio programs on the internet, publish their own books, launch their own ballistic missiles...wait, back up a bit, what was that? It seems one Israeli who has found himself in range of surface to surface missiles from Gaza felt his government's response was too feeble, and decided to start his own artillery offensive.

Don't think it can't happen to you, some moron set off an IED in Times Square this week.

The UK continues it's rapid slide into cultural surrender by ordering RAF personnell near Peterborough to not wear their uniforms off the base. It seems some civillians had been abusing servicemen and women in uniform. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't seem to be involved in this story yet, but surely it's only a matter of time...

Barak Obama supporter and Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.I.Am has released another video extolling the virtues of his candidate's political platform. It seems to involve assorted showbiz folk chanting "Obama" and claiming the world will be made better in some undescribed yet undisputable fashion. As the Internet is open to everyone, someone has responded with another video which points out some of the messianic tendencies inherent in the Obama campaign.

UK Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has discovered that British people are having fun singing patriotic songs at the Last Night of the Proms. Needless to say, she'd like to put a stop to it.

We also hear from Doug Payton who translates what Barak Obama is saying about defence, and Hollywood comedian and conservative activist Evan Sayet says Hillary is in it to win it, and the Democratic civil war will last right up to the convention. Mmmm, fighty Dems...Chicago '68...tear gas, Yippies...great days.

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Our feature interview is with the author of "Culturism", John Press, who says if we don't believe we have the right to defend our own culture, then we'll lose it. Which would be bad. For everyone.

The book is available at his website and at Amazon dot com.

In this week's show, we mark the passing of William F Buckley, discuss the UK government's much-feared new anti-jihadi strategy of making terrorists sit on the naughty seat, now that Kosovo is independent, how long will California remain part of the United States,and we have excerpts from this remarkable You Tube video of a group of students watching growing increasingly incredulous as the BBC resolutely refuses to do its job and cover breaking news.

Meryl Yourish is along with a handy guide for perplexed US voters.

Hollywood conservative comedian, Evan Sayet, is along to clue us in as to why people are avoiding Tinseltown's anti-war borefests.

Congratulations also to one of our regular contributors, Damian Penny, whose blog, Daimnation, has been ranked as 8th in the list of Canada's top 25 political blogs. The "A Dime A Dozen" blog used a combination of web traffic and Alexa ranking to work out which websites are most influential. In first place was, naturally Mark Steyn , and the wonderful Kate McMillan's Small Dead Animals came in at number four.

Just behind Damian Penny in tenth place is the absolutely brilliant Kathy Shaidle with Five Feet of Fury, and all of them managed to top Canada's answer to Lionel Hutz,Warren Kinsella who limped home at number 24.

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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For the second week, Mark Steyn joins Tom Paine on Shire Network News to talk about all the ways in which he is currently under investigation. In the second part of his interview he continues where he left off discussing his prosecutions in Canada taking in no go areas in Britain and plenty of other topics on the way.

If you don't already have his book, America Alone, may we thoroughly recommend it and that you pass some time looking at his website. You can find part one here.

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In Blog News this week we look at the Archbishop of Cantebury's crazy remarks.... oh yes. Take a look at Melanie Phillips for a complete tearing apart of what he said.

For more on the crasy left, take a look at the National Post.

Comments on the first piece of real news to come out of New Zealand in a while can be found at Tim Blair's site.

Also this week we once again hear from Evan Sayet. Super Tuesday don't you know.

Damian Penny is wondering if Ann Coulter really is going to campaign for Hillary.

Doug Payton is pointing out some of the lesser known Super Tuesday facts.

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