Former Supreme Court Justice Iacobucci is one of the most respected jurists in our country across partisan lines. Stephen Harper selected a man of the highest unbiased integrity to review all the Government's documents regarding the transfer of Afghan prisoners. He will decide what can be made public and what poses a potential threat to national security. To those leftards who say that all ...

This just in from Time magazine (a print-based weekly news magazine that people used to subscribe to): "The fact that climate change evidence that was "very likely" a few years ago has now been declared likelier still by the comprehensive Met Office report suggests that the evidence for human-caused climate change is getting better all the time."Ah yes. It's getting better all the time.C...

I was just listening to a replay of Mike Church's radio show this week (where I got the link in my first Salty post) and he talked about something else.... what about this:A heck of a lot of people REQUIRE kosher salt be rubbed on meat as a part of their religious beliefs. So.... in NY,,, how many Kosher restaurants are there, and if the bill states no salt in ANY form, is that not directly in...

I have learned via the magic of Twitter that Mike Ignatieff is embarking on a week long cross-country "listening tour". Parliament must not be sitting this week. This magical mystery listening tour is likely of the purpose of promoting the upcoming thinker's conference. Listening tour leading into thinker's conference; makes sense. Iggy is desperate for even a single "bold idea" and has t...

Alternate Title - Has The CBC Gone Ultra Right Wing??? Let's just look at CBC's At Issue panel, including the host: We've got Andrew Coyne, who also works for Maclean's, as arguably the most fiscally conservative member of the panel, or for that matter, the entire CBC. Then we've got Allan Gregg, pollster for Harris/Decima who as John Ibbitson of the Globe & Mail puts it, '...has ti

Stephen Harper's critics are both loud and insulting.  Some say he's too conservative while others say that he isn't conservative enough.  My analogies are for the 'not conservative enough' crowd. Socialism is like a burning building.  We are in the building and we want to get out.  Now I imagine Andrew Coyne running around with a Fire Warden cap telling everyone to...

Je suis présentement à Ottawa, en Ontario pour la conférence du Manning Center et j'ai remarqué un fait bien intéressant qu'on est pas près de voir sur nos autobus du transport en commun, des étiquettes ''supportons nos troupes''. J'aime bien cette idée, malheureusement on ne pourra pas voir ça au Québec bientôt j'ai l'impression.Supporter des gens qui combattent au front, c...

Ever since I appeared on the CBC in early December to argue about Climategate, a mountain of evidence has come forth to indicate that the story the CBC ignored for so long, has genuine scientific evidence backing it. Whether it be Glaciergate or Africagate or Naturaldisastergate [sorry, I made that last one up myself], the [...]

In another head shaking column by the Globe and Mail’s John Ibbitson, he somehow comes to the conclusion that although the country is moving further to the political right, Harper is being held back by the part of this same group? If the poll he sites is correct and the political sentiment of the country is [...]

This weekend, thousands of WordPress users and fans (including many hosted here on WordPress.com) are among the people attending the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive conference in Austin, TX. To celebrate this, we’re throwing a WordPress BBQ at SxSW tomorrow so that there’s a place for us all to get together. If you’re a WordPress.com user [...]

The March 22nd Macleans print issue contains a fascinating article entitled ‘Making Their Bed’, but it is not yet available online.  I will add a link when I see it on their website. Ken MacQueen writes about the upcoming challenge to Canada’s polygamy law which is seeing some strange bedfellows unite in the quest to test [...]

Just a quick, short instalment of my Month of Earle series today. Here's a take on the upcoming Guy Earle trial by Deborah Gyapong: Deborah Gyapong: Binks needs to get well soon so we can Free Guy Earle.Check it out.

Unlike the opposition political leaders who remain out of touch with the voters, our Prime Minister is getting it done!Thank you!Let's examine Michael Ignatieff, leader for the Liberal Party of Canada. The time for political games are over, any reason why the Liberals refuse to consult the voters?

South Park will be spoofing a real incident in an episode in which notorious conservative Eric Cartman goes to Afghanistan in order to divert up to 500 AK-47 assault rifles from a U.S. weapons bunker in Afghanistan meant for the police force. In the clip, Eric Cartman shows up in a U.S. weapons bunker in [...]

Me thinks the detainee issue is about to come back and bite the Liberals in the rear ends. Sure you really want those documents released Libs? Still want that public inquiry, Mr. Iffy? Hmm........... maybe the PM should call one after all.Government releases terms of Afghan detainee reviewThe federal Justice Minister on Saturday released the terms of reference for the former Supreme Court j...

I am growing sick and tired of those Conservatives bitching and moaning about Stephen Harper's lack of "fiscal conservatism". Maybe you are upset that there has not been a significant reduction of spending in the past four years and I am fully on board with reducing expenditures, but in a minority government with an opportunistic opposition what is the alternative? Each time you try to red...

The Coat of Arms of Her Majesty in Right of CanadaThe Pledge of Allegiance Act reads as follows:"2. (1) Every person who, either of his own accord or in compliance with any lawful requirement made of the person, or in obedience to the directions of any Act or law in force in Canada, except the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Citizenship Act, desires to take an oath of allegiance shall have adm...

A recent poll, to be released in full today by the Manning Center for Building Democracy, is generating commentary, if not angst, within the MSM. Apparently Canadians are a lot more "conservative" than we've been led to understand for so many years, make that decades.A couple of observations, ones that seem to be thus far absent from commentaries...For decades, at least as long as I can reme...

I just watched a clip on HLN about the Boys and Girls Club of America, where some are investigating/debating the CEO's apparent 1+million dollar income (2008). HLN posed this question to its viewers "Do you think the govt needs to look into all taxpayer funded charities?"While I don't condone govt dipping into everything, I have had issues with many major charities over the years, and no l...

Throughout the debate on world climate there’s been a narrative put forward, mostly by those concerned about carbon.  The story goes that climate scientists, and really scientists in general, are a kind of intellectual priesthood. Robed in white lab coats, they work selflessly to uncover nature’s truths.  They collaborate willingly and collegially. Their work is [...]

At what point do the Stephen Harper apologists face up to the fact that their man has only one thing in mind ... power. How he gets it doesn't matter because he is like the former LPC ... completely bereft of any core political values except one ... beat the other tribe.For me, the last straw is that Harper, while greatly increasing spending, actually CUT military spending from a military budg...

This is reminiscent of the excellent video from April 24, 2009, in which a YouTuber explained in pennies just how bankrupt the United States is. The above video also does a pretty good job, since people tend to visualize a lot better than they conceptualize. Even without the visual aid, it’s easy to demonstrate just [...]

Tricking any entity to spend billions of dollars based on false information is fraud ... the trick will be tying individual scientists and bureaucrats to specific amounts; not just the general fact that governments have sunk hundreds of billions into the climate scam, from grants to outright confiscations based on carbon taxing:The once-respected science journal Nature recently published a whin...

Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiancehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZBTyTWOZCM One of my favourite comedians was Red Skelton. On television I enjoyed the tramp and how he blissfully survived, and the joy he received with a tossed cigar that still had a puff or two.His allegiance skit and delivery touched me, as it will all patriotic Americans, and most people around the world who respect the Gr...

If any of you white guys wondered why all those blondes you never get tired of hitting on gave you a cold shoulder, wonder no more.   Proof # 1      Proof # 2

Sometimes I am critical of my old friends at the National Citizens Coalition, mainly because since I left the group it has done nothing but go down hill.But I have to admit they recently accomplished something quite spectacular: they have managed to produce the worst political video of all time.I mean it. This video is the Plan 9 from Outer Space of political videos.It's so bad, it's hard to ...

In a case that exposes the glaring holes in Canada’s multibillion-dollar research system, researcher Daniel Kwok, who has collected almost $2 million federal grants and fellowships has never had to explain where $150,000 worth of big screen TVs, entertainment systems and high-end car rims went. (see story here)

Take your pick; hubris, Chicanery, or Incompetence ... either way, it's a mess: Perhaps we need to go back to first principles?Rule # 1:In Science, the raw data is sacrosanct.Rule # 2:Corrections to raw data to compensate for known anomalies are always kept in a separate data set or adjustment algorithmsRule # 3The corrected data produced from applying Rule 2 is also sacrosanct.Rule # 4You nev...

For a taste of how dirty the climate cabal can be, have a read of Benny Peiser's detailed piece:On Aug. 31, Tom Wigley (a former CRU director) emailed Jones to notify him that he believed Keenan’s paper raised a valid issue: “Seems to me that Keenan has a valid point. The statements in the papers that he quotes seem to be incorrect statements, and that someone (WCW at the very least) must ...

...as a fully subsidised arm of the Liberal party of Canada..."Someone at the CBC made a decision to broadcast, coast-to-coast, an unidentified individual's statement that a particular provincial Crown prosecutor - someone who has a name, a professional reputation, and a family - rendered a decision based not on the law he's been sworn to uphold but on political interference from someone out...

matt damon is a radical leftist who thinks bo is not leftwing enough. he stars in a new anti american Bush basing movie. I will not be attending. REVIEW: Matt Damon & Paul Greengrass Get Their HateAmerica On In ‘Green Zone’by John NolteThe poetic irony of the delayed release of the shaky-cammed Hollywood temper tantrum known as “Green Zone” couldn’t be sweeter. Yes, the very same week...