Sat Apr 26, 2008 – 7:49 am
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 […]
Tue Mar 18, 2008 – 3:38 pm
I remember watching the decision making vote back in 2001 when the IOC, the governing body of the Olympic games, back in 2001. It was a pre-9/11 world still back then and Boris Yeltsin had just retired a year and two months earlier, making Vladimir Putin an unknown quality at the time. Toronto, […]
Wed Feb 20, 2008 – 10:04 am
While on a tour of an overcrowded Fallujah prison:
Sergeant Dehaan was comfortable with his mission in Iraq and the flaws of the Iraqi Police he was tasked with training and molding.
“I prefer these small and morally ambiguous wars to the big morally black-and-white wars,” he said to me later. “It would be nice if we […]
Thu Feb 7, 2008 – 6:09 pm
A Church that began with the beheading of Thomas More, advocates more beheading.
A foolish consistency,…
Thu Jan 31, 2008 – 1:06 pm
Paul Wells speaks, Jan 29, 2007
President Bush has had a difficult time lately in Iraq. He lost the mid-term elections, fired his defence secretary, and is about to launch his presidency’s last stand — a “surge” of thousands of fresh troops in one more desperate attempt to take and hold Baghdad.
Norman Podhoretz speaks Jan […]
Sun Jan 20, 2008 – 10:57 pm
They say that university campuses are the driving force behind all the major political movements these days…well at least those on The Left. I was waiting for this to happen though:
Sydney’s Cardinal Pell heavily criticized an Australian medical journal for publishing a professor’s letter calling for a tax on children of $5000 per child […]
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Sat Jan 19, 2008 – 12:39 am
…is paved with the extortion attempts of Natives. Well, not like the majority highway that the Prime Minister is currently paving in Quebec, but consider this: a Liberal Premier is currently allowing a lot of terrorist Natives to run amok in Caledonia, the Conservative government in Ottawa is refusing to break bread with this […]
Sun Dec 30, 2007 – 12:52 am
What can we say about Benazir Bhutto? Her death, like all deaths, was tragic but for anyone who followed the affairs of Pakistan, it was not unexpected. The only reason we are talking about it now so much is because, like the Dundas Square shooting in 2005 or the Sri Lanka Tsnami of […]
Thu Dec 27, 2007 – 8:35 pm
First off, Merry Christmas to all the readers of ThePolitic who visit here frequently. I hope that you and your families get to enjoy the Christmas holidays and are blessed with the knowledge that true peace is achievable through Him that was born when he didn’t need to be, and died that death […]
Thu Nov 22, 2007 – 12:39 pm
Good news in Iraq - the surge is working…
The US military says the number of civilian deaths has also fallen 60 per cent since the surge took effect, with a drop of 75 per cent in Baghdad. According to icasualties.org, the average monthly US death toll dropped from 96 for the first half of 2007 […]
