Monthly Archives: June 2006

No Stopping at Two in a Marriage

The Village Voice reports on those for whom two ain’t enough (and no, they aren’t Mormon or Muslim).

Taking the High Ground on Head Taxes

Reading the news this morning I was surprised by one editorial. As reported, the Harper government has apologised for the Chinese head tax of sixty some years ago. The head tax was an attempt to limit Chinese immigration to Canada by making them pay $500 per person just to get into the country, the equivalent […]

James Loney and Religious Freedoms

Via Matthew, we learn that James Loney, formerly a person deserved of both sympathy and respect but now only sympathy, will be holding a press conference tomorrow in order to “inform the public“:
Loney, who spent four months in captivity in Iraq before being rescued in March, kept his homosexuality secret from his abductors. Upon returning […]

US Activates Missle Defense Sheild

With North Korea poised to test-launch a new ballistic missile, perhaps it is time to test out the new missle defense system - tit-for-tat with missiles.Â? Brinkmanship at its best…

The Todd Nehls Fan Club

The sheriff of Dodge County Wisconsin just gained a fan:
You will not desecrate my flag in my county.
Especially enjoyable are the bits of the home video where the WBC protesters, whom you would think would have trouble not putting their pants on backwards, attempt to intimidate the sheriff by saying, “yah knoow shariff, ah’m […]

Post on BC’s Derailed Classrooms

The National Post picks up on some of my comments here.

US Intel on Al-Qaeda Prevents Attacks

Time.com has exclusive coverage of Ron Suskind’s new book that shows how US moles inside al-Qaeda helped to prevent poison gas attacks in the New York subway.

St. Louis old folks fighting back, literally

In two laudable stories of self-defence, it appears retirees in St. Louis are fed up with home invasion. In one an 87 year old woman shot dead a man on her porch who was trying to break into her home. After suffering a previous b & e where she had been beaten and robbed, […]

Caledonia, Ontario: Monument to the Coward Province

The Gazette on Canada’s post-Caledonia legal apartheid:
If you ever find yourself charged with trying to kill a police officer, don’t worry about being arrested - your family will just hide you away, and nobody will do anything about it, although the premier of your province might make some plaintive bleating noises. There’s just one […]

BC Hands Over Education Curriculum to Private Interest

BC has handed over part of its school curriculum to a gay couple as part of a human rights agreement. Provisions include:
curriculum to ensure respectful teachings about sexual orientation from kindergarten to Grade 12
Apparently, parents will have little power to dissent to the new sexual dogma:
This week, Murray Corren said the anticipated changes to […]