OttawaOn Transcendent ImportanceHarper conisdered the question of war and peace of one of transcendent importance. Between October 1, 2002 and May 5, 2003, he...
OttawaThis isn’t a Biden, it’s a RoveThe issue is not whether Harper (or one of his speechwriters) cribbed from a speech by John Howard. It’s whether both Howard and...
GeneralFinancial Crisis Stat of the DayNew York state receives about one fifth of its tax dollars from Wall Street. Not NYC. New York state . link
Ottawa"But nothing for the parents of fat, lazy, tone-deaf and untalented kids"Harper’s curious brand of conservatism heads inexorably towards its obvious conclusion:
OttawaGot Senate Reform if You Want ItOne of the reasons I supported Harper’s decision to abandon the fixed election date and drop the writ was that I took...
GeneralOn Wall StreetIn today’s NYTimes, Ben Stein goes on a wonderful rampage against Paulson and Bernanke, whom he holds responsible for the "rapidly...
OttawaMy-Other-Home NewsFor yet another installment of the pathetically shallow and shamelessly biased BlackBerry Roundtable, check out the link (and...
OttawaCanadian IdiocracyThere was a time when... People wrote books and movies. Movies with stories, that made you care about whose ass it was and why it...
GeneralBaggy Pants RevisitedAlmost exactly a year ago, I wrote a clmn for the magazine about the ludicrous crackdown on baggy pants in municipalities across...
OttawaDisloyal OppositionGilles Duceppe continues to kick ass in Canadian politics. If the other guys were half as energized about this and a fifth as...