"Soft hearts are no excuse for soft heads."“Statecraft and statesmanship are, according to the dictionary definition, interchangeable. But the former has more practical ring to it, emphasizing activity rather than rhetoric, strategy not just diplomacy. All too often, statesmanship turns out simply to be political action of which we politicians approve -- frequently our own.”"The golden r...
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...nailed her to a... well... never mind... -- FLORIDA -- "If she had been under 18, we'd have taken the parents to jail," Judd told The St. Petersburg Times. "If she had been a senior citizen and she had dementia or mental issues, and someone in that house had ignored her health, there would be legal culpability.""But it's very difficult to assign legal culpability in this case."Wo...
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posted 13 hours ago
It’s been fairly obvious that Liberal chief of staff Peter Donolo only knows how to try to replicate the way Jean Chretien stole NDP voters and didn’t have to worry about the right side due to the Conservative vote split.
Angelo Persichilli writes in the Toronto Star how things have changed way too much for the [...]
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posted 13 hours ago
My friend Karen Selick mentioned this movie at the Manning Center conference. It is a great movie that extolls the virtues of capitalism and freedom. I share it with you. There is a commentary by Milton Friedman!
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posted 14 hours ago
Blog postings like this only confirm my growing suspicion that the shade of difference between many self-proclaimed conservative “activists” and social “activists” is that the former will claim a predilection for a Tim’s double-double over the latter’s allegiance to the fair trade decaf soy latté. And that is because the supposed champions of the right [....
Barrel Strength | more | Comments |
posted 14 hours ago
Ah, spring, when a young person’s fancy turns to … blogging. And time changes. (Maybe baseball too, if that’s your thing.)
WordPress.com blog time settings follow the UTC time standard. This method allows us to keep the stats database lean and fast. That translates into free stats for everyone!
UTC doesn’t change over the course of [...]
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posted 14 hours ago
I admire the liberal bloggers, friends in media that pretend the Liberal Party of Canada is capable of holding an adult conversation with Canadians.Donolo knows that in order to get the NDP vote, the Liberals have to polarize the electorate by demonizing the right, portraying the Liberal party as the only barrier against the "right-wing ideologues." That's why they talk about Afghanistan ...
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posted 14 hours ago
Consider the UK one of the "greenest" places on the planet ... yet even there, a return to logic and reality seems to be taking hold:TWO government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exaggerating the potential harm.The adverts, commissioned by Ed Miliband, the energy secretary...
Celestial Junk | more | Comments |
posted 15 hours ago
This coffee has an opposite effect of what coffee usually does. This one will send you off to a snoring slumber within a minute. Try it. It comes from the house of : "Support Obama"
h/t Irene
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posted 15 hours ago
John Ibbitson writes an interesting column about the Conservative Party base. He points out that most Canadians are more ‘right wing’ than we would traditionally consider ourselves. This country has a long proud history of supporting personal responsibility and individual liberty. That tradition has not been wiped out and forms the back bone of the conservative movement.But this is not real...
Freedom is My Nationality | more | Comments |
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The gloves have come off in Quebec as Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois says the reason Liberal Premier Jean Charest won’t call a public inquiry into the construction industry is that Charest is in the pay of corrupt friends of the Liberals.
She cites the extra $75,000 that the Liberal Party gives to Charest in an [...]
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posted 15 hours ago
The latest target by the environmentalists – Activists raise stink about super-soft toilet paper.
Will cushy 3-ply join the ranks of the incandescent light bulb? Will we eventually need a doctor’s note or prescription if we have hemorrhoids? What if we buy a few carbon offsets?
Or will the Nanny State provinces declare that soft toilet tissue [...]
Blue Like You | more | Comments |
posted 16 hours ago
"Michael Sweet knew he was dying," writes McCormack. "He pleaded with Craig Munro, telling him he had a wife and three young children, aged 1, 4 and 6.""Munro did not care. Munro hated cops. He taunted, humiliated and degraded Const. Sweet as he lay on the floor bleeding to death.""By the time the police moved in, it was too late. Sweet died shortly thereafter," writes McCormack. "Whe...
halls of macadamia | more | Comments |
posted 16 hours ago
...the next time people start rending their garments & gnashing their teeth over those crazy dangerous tasers...Yeah, yeah... I know... I'm a monster.
halls of macadamia | more | Comments |
posted 17 hours ago
A few tidbits of Olympic proportion from Andrew Coyne:
But the statement was not about how many top 5 finishes we had, but the number of events in which which we finished top 5, a measure of the breadth of our success.
I’ve now checked the results, and I can report that indeed, no country matched us in this regard. We placed top 5 in 37 events. The Americans were top 5 in 34. The Germans ...
Hinchey\\s Store | more | Comments |
posted 17 hours ago
Pauline Marois dans un virage à droite (donc du centre-gauche vers le centre), a mis à la porte du PQ le SPQ-Libre. Les leaders de ce groupe proteste et demande un vote sur son abolition.Cette abolition est logique si Marois veut aller au centre et elle s'enlève beaucoup de futurs ennuis qui auraient été encore des guerres entre le SPQ-Libre et les autres membres du PQ. Le Parti québéco...
Pour un monde droite | more | Comments |
posted 18 hours ago
I have to admit, this has slipped under my radar. Apparently the Liberal “Thinker’s Conference” in Montreal is going to have at least one speaker who’s a Conservative: Derek Burney. Just to remind you: he was one of Brian Mulroney’s most trusted advisors, who helped set up the Canada-US free trade agreement, [...]
The Phantom Observer | more | Comments |
posted 19 hours ago
Who cares? Right now the Conservatives being in power are keeping our country together. The west is finally being treated like all the other provinces. This is keeping us in the game. Two posts today got me thinking about what has been going on lately. We are letting the Liberal media dictate to us what we should think, and this must stop. 'A recent poll, to be released in full today by the Ma...
Climbing out of the dark | more | Comments |
posted 23 hours ago
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 ...
The Iceman | more | Comments |
posted 1 day ago
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...
The way the Ball bounces | more | Comments |
posted 1 day ago
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...
Random Musings of a Tormented Mind | more | Comments |
posted 1 day ago
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...
The Iceman | more | Comments |
posted 1 day ago
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
Hinchey\\s Store | more | Comments |
posted 1 day ago
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...
Spin Assassin | more | Comments |
posted 1 day ago
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...
Pour un monde droite | more | Comments |
posted 1 day ago
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 [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | more | Comments |
posted 1 day ago
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 [...]
BC Blue | more | Comments |
posted 1 day ago
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 [...]
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posted 1 day ago
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 [...]
Blue Like You | more | Comments |
posted 1 day ago
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.
The Blog of Walker | more | Comments |
posted 1 day ago
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?
Canadiansense | more | Comments |
posted 1 day ago
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