Author Archives: Martin Street


More Do-Gooder Meddling

“If Only Greens Saw The Forest For The Trees”
For all the harm they propose to do in the First World with their Kyoto social engineering and wealth redistribution experiment, greeny types are already hard at work finding ways of forcing the Third World’s people to eke out impoverished existences from now until the end of […]

Fred Thompson, Presidential Candidate, Blogger

Fred Thompson has kind words for the readership at Pajamas Media. This on the heels of his video clip advice to Michael Moore. I’m really starting to like this guy - but a Hollywood actor? For President?

Gas Pricing: Stockholder Value or Evil Oil Company Greed?

Further to Tom Cerber’s earlier post:
Demagoguing gas prices is one of the easiest rackets in politics. For many people high pump prices indicate that some sort of duplicity is going unpunished, because they are willfully ignorant of basic economic ideas like the profit motive. The idea that big evil oil companies should be “allowed” to […]

The (Ir)rational Voter vs. The Wisdom of Crowds

(h/t Instapundit)
Ilya Somin reviews Bryan Caplan’s new book, The Myth of the Rational Voter, at the Volokh Conspiracy.
The gist of this work seems to fly in the face of the notion of the “wisdom of crowds” as put forward by James Surowiecki. If you have any interest in democratic theory these two links are well […]

The Problem With The Globe and Mail

I was flipping through the Globe this morning and came across an editorial on the MacKay / Stronach name-calling controversy that I wanted to comment on. But this article about Jack Layton’s take on the issue covers essentially the same ground and leaps to the same wrong-headed conclusions, so I’ve linked to it instead.
Since when […]

Advice For Stephen Harper

As an addendum to my earlier post predicting a 2 year limit to the Conservative minority government, I direct your attention to this advice for Stephen Harper written by James C. Bennett at Albion’s Seedlings. (h/t Instapundit)

Predicting The Duration of the Conservative Minority

As we saw during the election campaign, the Liberal Party has no problem smearing Stephen Harper and the Conservatives as a northern extension of the Bush administration. For the duration of this minority government, look for the Liberals, the NDP and their big media sympathizers to continue pushing this meme at every possible opportunity, even […]

Son of Plame

There’s a storm brewing south of the border that should make for an interesting week to come. Follow the links. (via Instapundit)

Macleans Biased?

It seems strange that a nominally conservative poster like myself would choose to defend Svend Robinson in his inaugural post here at ThePolitic, but I couldn’t let the cover of the December 19 2005 edition of Macleans pass by without comment. For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure, the cover is a close-up […]