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Matt Damon just loves what George W. Bush did for AIDS relief: ... He did PEPFAR (... the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) ...And to show his respect and appreciation, Damon says:"I would kiss George W. Bush on the mouth ... Three seconds. No tongue."Har, har - I'm sure GWB feels the love. A typical Hollywood leftist nitwit, Damon can't compliment a conservative wit
Just Right | more | posted April 22nd, 2012
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Justin Trudeau says he’ll compensate any charitable group that paid him a hefty speaking fee to participate in fundraising events.Only two days ago he was refusing to refund any part of his fee.Excellent work, Jason Kenney!
Just Right | more | posted 1 day ago
Dishonoured for contributions to Junk Science:Rick Smith for Lifetime Achievement... the inspiration for the Rubber Duckies, which are named in his honour. Mr. Smith, as president of Environmental Defence Canada, co-authored of a remarkable piece of junk science literature, the 2009 Slow Death by Rubber Duck.New York Times... the NYT has aimed much of its junk at Canada...oil sands and t
Just Right | more | posted 2 days ago
Roy Spencer:... The modellers and the IPCC have willingly ignored the evidence for low climate sensitivity for many years ... The discrepancy between models and observations is not a new issue … just one that is becoming more glaring over time.... Forgive me if I sound frustrated, but we scientists who still believe that climate change can also be naturally forced have been virtually cut out of
Just Right | more | posted 4 days ago
Terence Corcoran:Rona Ambrose, federal Status of Women Minister, says she is leading a new committee of business executives to study the issue of women directors. Aiming for bold action, Ms. Ambrose told The Globe and Mail “I [told the committee] I wanted action-oriented recommendations for the government to immediately act on,” she said. “We’ve had enough studies and enough re
Just Right | more | posted 6 days ago
The charges, laid Thursday, come ... after Canada’s Competition Bureau ... found evidence suggesting that a price-fixing cartel collaborated, agreed or arranged to set the prices of chocolate products.... Criminal charges have been laid against candy makers Nestlé Canada Inc. and Mars Canada Inc., and ITWAL Limited...... “We are fully committed to pursuing those who engage in egreg
Just Right | more | posted June 7th
George Jonas on the ethics of his fellow journalists:...“‘Think dirty, and 90% of the time you’ll be right.’” ...Reading what some of my colleagues have been saying about public-figures-turned-media-targets ... makes me wonder ... Perhaps they’ll score in the end, for thinking dirty may well make one right 90% of the time, but the parallel fact is that thinking dirty is disgusting
Just Right | more | posted June 6th
In yesterday's National Post there were columns by Andrew Coyne and Chris Selley discussing, in part, the journalism surrounding Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's alleged crack smoking. At least the focus is on the real problem - the media, instead of the steady stream of innuendo about Ford . But, to me, both columns are just more of the Media Party's circling of the wag
Just Right | more | posted June 2nd
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is holding its annual conference in Vancouver this year. This is the conference attended by Mayors and municipal staff to share ideas (collude) on stuff like, you know, "green" plans, "sustainability" initiatives and "climate change" strategies (aka wasting wads of cash ripped off from taxpayers). Ezra Levant describ
Just Right | more | posted June 2nd
Former CIA operations officer, Clare Lopez, traces the origins and activities of the Muslim Brotherhood leading to their success in penetrating the U.S. government:... it should be noted that massive financial support from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf sheikhdoms has always played a central and deeply important role in the ability of the Brotherhood to fund its global expansion, ... The first task w
Just Right | more | posted May 30th
Bob Plamondon on his new book, The Truth About Trudeau:Though, should Justin become PM, Pierre would slip to runner-up position.
Just Right | more | posted May 30th
Peter Foster:In a welcome but all-too-rare display of corporate backbone, Montreal-based Resolute Forest Products has sued Greenpeace Canada....claims “damages for defamation, malicious falsehood and intentional interference with economic relations” in the amount of $5-million. It also seeks punitive damages of $2-million, plus costs.Go, Resolute!
Just Right | more | posted May 28th
Barack Obama's tweets often promote climate alarmist themes, for example encouraging his groupies to "call out deniers". In this tweet Obama pushed the bogus notion of scientific 'consensus':Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous. Read more: http://OFA.BO/gJsdFp The linked web-page references the
Just Right | more | posted May 28th
I'd give these medical students a big fat FAIL for wasting their time studying this eco-obsessive topic:Operations to replace worn out knees in Canada ... generating nearly half a million kilograms of surgical waste every year, according to a new study that says more needs to be done to "green" the nation's ORs.... "It is imperative that efforts to promote sustainable OR practices are stren
Just Right | more | posted May 27th
This week in Toronto, Daniel Pipes, Salim Mansur and Father Raymond de Souza had a panel discussion on the subject of Islam and Islamism. The discussion was moderated by Fred Litwin of the "Free Thinking Society".Blogwrath attended the event and posted a detailed account which includes a video clip of the audience's engagement with the panel during the Q&A. Very intere
Just Right | more | posted May 26th
Peter Foster:Harpergate, the rickety contraption hastily assembled by a team of the media’s worst handymen, has come off its hinges.... What this “affair” has exposed more than anything is a pandemic of Harper Derangement Syndrome, combining lack of proportion with an almost psychopathic desire on the part of the media to “get” a Prime Minister who won’t pander to their self-impo
Just Right | more | posted May 24th
Ezra's excellent assessment: ... along with Tarek Fatah's: Brit PM David Cameron's pathetic response:“This was not just an attack on Britain and on the British way of life, it was also a betrayal of Islam and of the Muslim communities who give so much to our country. There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act.”Al-Qaeda begs to differ:Al-Shabaab To British PM
Just Right | more | posted May 23rd
In a 3-0 ruling the BC Court of Appeals OK'd teachers pushing their politics in classrooms:Teachers who wore campaign buttons to school five years ago and posted political messages on classroom doors were exercising their right to free expression in a way that did not detract from their students’ education ...... “There was no evidence in this case of any actual or potential harm
Just Right | more | posted May 22nd
Obama: "Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny" Sure, so he can more easily get away with using the IRS to punish his political enemies:Was the White House involved in the IRS's targeting of conservatives? No investigation needed to answer that one. Of course it was.... [Frank] VanderSloot is the Obama target who in 2011 made a sizable donation to a group support
Just Right | more | posted May 19th
Or, as Mark Steyn dubs him, Michael Poppins:So, when the Big Apple volunteers to spend a dozen years under a colorless antiseptic zillionaire with whiny, hectoring, faux-patrician Boston vowels who weekends in Bermuda and jets back to his nanny state on Monday morning to declare it illegal to put more than three sugars in your coffee, either the city's self-mythologizing has always been a total c
Just Right | more | posted May 13th
Fox News story:... Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was convicted of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's debate over abortion....
Just Right | more | posted May 13th
Scientific American recently published an article on guns. Naturally, it spins an anti-gun line. The best reading is in the many comments that lambaste the article. Readers were not impressed.Years ago I subscribed to SA before becoming disillusioned with its leftist political orientation which crops up in many areas including "climate change"
Just Right | more | posted May 12th
Ezra further examines Al Gore’s war against Canada’s oilsands and reveals an egregious comparison made by Obama’s anti-oil supporters. More.
Just Right | more | posted May 11th
Peter Foster:The problem is excess of moralism, which bolsters divine regulatory aspirations of those who would paint themselves onto the roof of the Sistine Chapel “A banker, a professor and a priest walk into a bar.” Thus Father Raymond de Souza – to appreciative laughter – began his contribution to last Friday’s panel discussion titled “Banking, Trust and the Culture
Just Right | more | posted May 8th
Talks about her new autobiography, Guardian Angel, My Story, My BritainExcerpt.[Via]
Just Right | more | posted May 7th
Ann Coulter:... conservatives liberals fear most ... start being automatically referred to as "discredited." ... no one is called "discredited" by liberals more often than the inestimable economist John Lott, author of the groundbreaking book 'More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws.' ... Lott's economic analysis of the effect of concealed-carry
Just Right | more | posted May 5th
The York Police having previously admitted to the Toronto Sun that they pressured the rabbi, the National Post reported: Police deny pressuring rabbi to cancel speech ... Pamela Geller responded, blasting the Post as well as the police:... look at the agenda driven picture they [the Post] use ...... The fascist cop, Insp. Ricky Veerappan, already admitted that they threa
Just Right | more | posted May 3rd
York Regional Police threaten rabbi's role as chaplain over Pamela Geller speechYork Regional Police threatened to remove a rabbi as one of the force’s chaplains if he hosted a controversial anti-Islamist speaker at his Thornhill synagogue.Insp. Ricky Veerappan, of the force’s diversity, equity and inclusion bureau, confirmed he and officers from the service’s hate crimes unit met with Rabb
Just Right | more | posted May 2nd
Peter Foster:Cass Sunstein obviously takes pride in having been called “The most dangerous man in America”...... Mr. Sunstein dangerous was that ... he is the leading peddler of the “nudge” doctrine, which aims at bigger, smarter, more subtle government.The Orwellian rationale for this Brave New Government ... Nudgery says that governments should use these foibles in a clever fo
Just Right | more | posted May 1st
Dear CBC ... please lay off Joe FreshThis was the worst accident in the history of the garment industry ... Almost every CBC show I’ve heard singles out Joe Fresh, identifies the Executive Chairman of Loblaws Companies by name, and laments the fact that he has not decided to come onto CBC airwaves to confess his company’s sins. ...... This feels wrong to me: There are 3-million texti
Just Right | more | posted May 1st
Terence Corcoran:It takes a rare politician to stand up and take shots at a climate scientist who’s the darling of the global warmist movement. Even more uncommon is to see a politician take on such a climate scientist—and win the contest.Mr. Oliver pointedly took aim at James Hansen, the former NASA scientist and one of the godfathers of climate catastrophism. Instead of a gooey marshmallow c
Just Right | more | posted April 30th
Gay Marriage Fight Is a ‘Lie’ to Destroy Marriage:The push for gay marriage has less to do with the right to marry – it is about diminishing and eventually destroying the institution of marriage and redefining the “traditional family.”Lesbian activist Masha Gessen: “Gay marriage is a lie.”“Fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we’re going to do with marria
Just Right | more | posted April 29th
Climate alarmists persist in claiming an overwhelming scientific "consensus" and an absence of peer reviewed science supporting skepticism. A useful reference for countering the latter claim is a nicely annotated and linked list of 1100+ skeptical peer reviewed papers. Note that this list has more than doubled since it was published at WUWT 4 years ago.
Just Right | more | posted April 28th
Classic Bush, good speech, funny, emotional at the end:More. [Via]
Just Right | more | posted April 25th
There's no one to vote for. The only choices are bad choices: Liberals: can't be trusted; extortionate anti-pipeline policy. NDP: tax and spend; excessively green, anti-development; funded by American eco-interests Conservatives: weak; not running a candidate in my riding.So it's either not vote or
Just Right | more | posted April 23rd
It's amazing how so many media pundits seem to feel obligated to come to Justin Trudeau's defence when he does or says something dopey. They defend him by either completely ignoring the incident or by writing long columns 'explaining' at length why they think what he said or did wasn't so dopey after all.Today it's Andrew Coyne on Justin's dopey musings on the terror in Boston.&n
Just Right | more | posted April 20th
Barbara Kay:How can the son of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, presumably aware of his father’s role in quashing Canada’s only contemporary terrorist movement, be mouthing these shallow, superannuated bromides of the left?Trudeau père did not waste a second anguishing over whether these terrorists felt ‘excluded’ or ‘marginalized’.
Just Right | more | posted April 18th
Ezra parses Justin's musings:What a naïf! No doubt about it, JT really is in way over his head.More of the CBC interview (at 13 min. for the Boston question).
Just Right | more | posted April 17th
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