Thu May 31, 2007 – 9:23 am
This was reported heavily in the national media (hat tip to the Black Kettle) :
The 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming who was savagely beaten, lashed to a fence, and left to die near Laramie by two homophobic men…
This was not:
…two gay men abducted and drugged 13-year-old Jesse […]
Wed May 30, 2007 – 10:31 pm
Here’s an interesting bit of commentary by Myrna Blyth:
… the importance of the gender gap in voting — which we have heard so much about over the years — is frequently overblown. It began in 1980 when Eleanor Smeal, a political scientist who became the president of the National Organization of Women, noticed one bit […]
Wed May 30, 2007 – 6:28 pm
The only people who can make me sympathize with Stephane Dion: the CAW.
Wed May 30, 2007 – 4:33 pm
* “We’re not interested in spending millions and millions of dollars on contrived, vicious, mean-spirited television ads to attack our opponents,” said Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc, who unveiled…a digital PowerPoint presentation on [the Liberal party’s] website, making the case that Harper has “plagiarized” U.S. President George W. Bush’s tactics and policies.The presentation suggests the Harper […]
Tue May 29, 2007 – 4:04 pm
Apart from one area of agreement with Blair, his staunch support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (his support for his own military another matter entirely), his tenure as Prime Minister has been short on successes and heavy on avoidable disasters. Admirably he pushed and pushed for peace deals in Northern Ireland, not […]
Tue May 29, 2007 – 12:43 pm
Explained by Steve Hayward.
Tue May 29, 2007 – 12:34 am
After the thrashing last week that the Manitoba PCs suffered at the hands of the NDP, this week’s sacrificial slab was the PC government of Pat Binns out east in P.E.I. Not to beat on a dead horse too much, but after having a local Ontario PC MPP (that’s what our MLAs are called […]
Mon May 28, 2007 – 10:05 am
With lines like this one he gave at the Council of Foreign Relations, it’s easy to see why Governor Schwarzenegger is such a successful politician:
“If you are against taking actions against greenhouse gases and carbon emissions your political base will melt away as sure as the polar ice caps.
You will become a political penguin on […]
Mon May 28, 2007 – 8:39 am
I’m going to be at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for the rest of the week. Congress is the largest annual academic gathering in Canada and I’ll be attending the Canadian Political Science Association part of the conference.
If you’re planning on attending, drop me an email […]
Sat May 26, 2007 – 9:00 am
On the twenty fifth anniversary of the Falklands War, an ambitious war fought by Britain some 8,000 miles away, here is a good documentary on the conflict, produced for the twentieth anniversary.
In the conflict, Britain took more casualities than they have taken in both Iraq and Afghanistan to date. Winning the conflict took political […]
