Thursday, July 10, 2008

The world is officially nuts - Part 2

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You'll recall, of course, the illumination of BC Ferries security pamphlet , which is a verbatim adoption of the US Homeland Security po...
Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Corporate greed: exposed by simple math

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Bell Mobility and Telus are pressing ahead with their plans to charge 15¢ per incoming text message for their pay-per-use cellphone customer...

McCain's position on free speech

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Librarians: the new terrorists? (H/t Antonia Zerbisias) UPDATE: (July 10) Reader RFC points out at Dawg's place that Obama is not that ...

The world is officially nuts - part 1

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This is from a pamphlet I picked up over the weekend as I headed off for yet another of my unscheduled trips. Getting Involved Everyone can ...

Fewer than one million attend Rideau Hall protest

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In fact, about four hundred (and I checked the estimate with two police officers on the scene). Grassroots ? Only in a drought. A small, bad...

More Harper purging

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The Harper regime claims another victim . Luc Pomerleau (declaration of interest: I know him and have worked with him in the past), a scien...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Bummer, eh, "pro-lifers?"

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Two-thirds of Canadians support the Order of Canada award to Dr. Henry Morgentaler. So far, three snowflakes have been turned in, two from ...

Bits 'n' bites

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Eunuchs make good tax collectors . Is Hell freezing over ? Satan signs with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Paypal, the conservative's friend ...
Monday, July 07, 2008

The legacy of Dubya

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This probably never crossed your dessert plate, but here it is anyway. A few of you will remember George W Bush deciding that Southern Metho...

IDiocy's defenders

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I guess a fellow who thinks that homosexuality is a disease to be cured can believe just about anything, but I was a little taken aback, I ...
Sunday, July 06, 2008

Never forget: Chretien stands against Harper and Day, March 2003

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17 March 2003: This is a shameless crib from Impolitical, but to me this is such an important part of our historical record that it deserve...

Another speech-warrior meme bites the dust

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You've heard this one before, haven't you? Until recently, no one stood a chance of defending successfully against a Section 13 com...

Potential Canadians

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Randall Denley of the Ottawa Citizen has a few words to say about Morgentaler's Order of Canada today. So does David Warren , no doubt...
Saturday, July 05, 2008

Will someone please get this guy a cross?

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And help him mount it ? As a writer who does not subscribe to the "politically correct" ideology, it is reasonable to expect that,...

"Longing for the Old Canada"

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Here's a trip down memory lane for the nostalgic Ian Hunter and David Warren . Capital punishment . The lash . Deaths from illegal abor...