Our finance minister and economics
This is frustrating, especially because of this statement: “Mr. Flaherty said Ottawa prefers to regulate greenhouse gases instead of imposing taxes as a means of reducing them.” Now, look at any...
View ArticleHappy birthday, dalemarsden.ca
Today (give or take a few days) is the first birthday of this web site. Overall I think I’m happy I set this thing up. It will cost me about $130 per year from now on for more space and bandwidth than...
View ArticleMcCain announces his running mate
Is it just me, or do they look horribly, horribly uncomfortable?
View Article21 years later
Today I received the last installment of my Christmas gift from my sister-in-law, via a gift card from Best Buy: the 20th anniversary, remastered edition of U2’s classic The Joshua Tree. Now, if I had...
View ArticleBleeding hearts and jerks
Suddenly it all becomes clear. Whereas the left wing tends to attract bleeding hearts, the right-wing tends to attract jerks. Of course there are all sorts of fancy intellectual reasons why one might...
View ArticleHoly smackdown, Batman!
Lately, the federal Conservatives have been waging all-out war on the Liberal provincial government of Ontario. There’s lots of speculation about the reasons behind this. Paul Wells has a particularly...
View ArticleClassic conservatism
Via Andrew Potter’s blog (emphasis added): MP Cheryl Gallant Celebrates Earth Day LAURENTIAN VALLEY, April 22 2008 – MP Cheryl Gallant, MP Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke celebrated Earth Day by taking a...
View ArticleSarah and the elites
This is beautiful. Nail on the head. A taste: Leave the fantasy land of convention rhetoric, and you will find that small-town America, this legendary place of honesty and sincerity and dignity, is not...
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