Monthly Archives: April 2008

Election Financing: “Uh-oh…”

This is more embarrassing than waking up to an NDP sign on your lawn. And I’m sure that Harper’s team have the Liberal stories all ready to spill once that confidence motion comes on May 5!
Oh, and just regarding the actual laws surrounding this whole issue, Andrew had it covered last week.

Christian Horizons: Funny, They Don’t Mind the First-Rate Services…

I think that a lot of libertarians (of all bends) out there can really get behind the idea that the government should not be dictating to employers under what terms they must employ their workers. After all, without such restrictions, many of the unions on life-support today would’ve gone the way of the dodo […]

Global Warming Panacea - Worldwide Depression

Lorrie Goldstein has some suggestions for the Globe and the Star:
(5) “Good news” stories about the bright side of runaway fuel, food and energy prices. For example, when they get high enough that people stop their discretionary spending, thus leading to a recession, thus dramatically lowering greenhouse gas emissions the way that great environmental leader, […]

New Evolutionary Ancestor Discovered!

Finally, the proof that I’ve been looking for all along. Why didn’t you atheist dudes tell me about this? After all, isn’t this specimen the sort of definitive and uncompromising link that has long been touted as the object which separated the educated and enlightened from the ignorant and self-deceiving. Consider me […]

Soft Racism

Definition: when the oppressors no longer tell the oppressed that they are too stupid for normal education - it just lets the oppressed say it, then agrees with them.
Just another symptom of a nation that has copped out of caring for its fellow citizens by simply making mental, emotional and psychological problems, a “culture” or […]

Selling Off the Resources

When I was in high school, my social studies class taught us about the basic economic principles behind industry.  We were taught about primary industry, secondary industry, and tertiary industry.  It was explained that primary industry involves the harvesting of natural resources.  Examples of this are logging, mining, and oil drilling.  Canada is famous for […]

Did the TTC Just Kill It’s Sweet Public-Private Partnership Deal?

Amazing, just sheerly amazing! That’s the only thing that can be said about the TTC union’s decision to reject a deal so sweet that the last week was littered with dozens of columns expressing the devastating effects of allowing TTC employees a golden goose as big as being guaranteed highest bidder for not just […]

“You Think I’m Bad, The Other Guy Will Kill Off 1 in 5 Of You!”

The London Mayor likened a London led by Tory candidate to the Black Death at the launch of his campaign the other day.
“Having Boris as mayor would be like reliving the Black Death of the Middle Ages or almost as bad as that.”
Kind of dramatic, eh?

Libertarian Presidential Front-Runner Defends Child Porn

Mary Ruwart, research scientist, perrenial Libertarian Senatorial candidate and front runner for this year’s Libertarian Presidential ticket is being taken to task for comments she made in her book, Short Answers to Tough Questions.
When discussing self choice in relation to child porn, she had this to say: “Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have […]

Obama Might Win the Nomination, but Lose the Election

Lanny Davis at the Huffington Post outlines the top ten “List of Undisputed Facts Showing Barack Obama’s Weakness in the General Election Against John McCain” and just when you thought it could not get any worse for the two candidates vying for the Democratic nomination, Jazz Shaw ponders,
[…] at this point I have begun to […]