The Noble Peace Prize went to Al Gore and his buddies at the IGPCC.  This merely adds more weight to what we have known for a long time, outside of the awards for the sciences and other measurable fields the Noble Prize is all about treanzie politics than rewarding the good work of people who are actually trying to bring peace and democracy to their part of the world.

A suitably indignant piece from the Wall Street Journal: Not Nobel Winners.

     In Olso Friday, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to the Burmese monks whose defiance against, and brutalization at the hands of, the country's military junta in recent weeks captured the attention of the Free World.

     The prize was also not awarded to Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and other Zimbabwe opposition leaders who were arrested and in some cases beaten by police earlier this year while protesting peacefully against dictator Robert Mugabe.

     Or to Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest in Vietnam arrested this year and sentenced to eight years in prison for helping the pro-democracy group Block 8406.

     Or to Wajeha al-Huwaider and Fawzia al-Uyyouni, co-founders of the League of Demanders of Women's Right to Drive Cars in Saudi Arabia, who are waging a modest struggle with grand ambitions to secure basic rights for women in that Muslim country.

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