Syrian Reactor

Over at the WaPo is a piece about that Israeli raid on the Syrian reactor.

Reading this I wonder if we aren't in for another 9/11 at some point. There is a little too much diplomatic white-washing going on here.

Happy 4/20!

Thanks to NR for the heads up.





The Golden Road by The Grateful Dead.

Athena V. The Furies

Camille Paglia is probably one of the coolest people on the planet and here is why.

Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family

This one goes out to all the bloggers currently being sued for whatever....

I am Woman, Hear Me Bore

The L.A. Times has this piece from a feminist.

Ugh, where to begin. For one thing this story never changes. A women in middle-management could have said the same thing 20 years ago and it goes back to when "uneducated" women wrote 26 line sonnets with alternating trochaic and iambic lines about, you guessed it, "uneducated" women.

I would also take issue with how this sophist dovetails her experience with an alpha-male asshole into restraining orders, rape and third world violence.

After all, Women Strike for Peace was founded by women who were tired of making the coffee and doing the typing and not having any voice or decision-making role in the antinuclear movement of the 1950s. Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being. Things have certainly gotten better, but this war won't end in my lifetime. I'm still fighting it, for myself certainly, but also for all those younger women who have something to say, in the hope that they will get to say it.

I wonder if Susan B. Anthony would have thought that anti-proliferation would be so tightly enmeshed with womens rights?

What about the sugary diary style she's writing in? She said she was forty-something, right? Doesn't she write books, too?

Finally, it seems it's a women's problem if she can't assert herself to the position she believes she's attained. It isn't with God and All The World she should be taking issue with, but with herself.

Thanks to Ms. Shaidle

Maclean's Responds

Maclean's Magazine has finally sounded off on their own HRC controversy.

These guys played it pretty safe, I think. Tell me that isn't true.

Secondly, provincial governments must follow suit, eliminating their own versions of Section 13(1), or at the very least granting print media organizations an exemption just as broadcasters are exempted from the federal law.

Got that, at least liberate us from the aforementioned tribunal insanity. let the bloggers deal with 'em.

Thanks Maclean's

Liberal is as Liberal Does

Liberals are finally starting to come around to this free speech thing. I suspect that liberals pivoted after having to re-read their J.S. Mills.

If that's the case it let me say it would be a welcome change.

Welfare Art

The National Post has a great series of articles from their in-house talent on Canada's Biggest Mistakes.

Marni Soupcoff has a great one about art subsidies (scroll down page for the rest of series).

The Canadian government has been funding the arts since long before I was born. The CCA was created in 1957, just a few years after CBC television came on the scene, and CBC radio has been around since the 1930s. Clearly, Canadians are accustomed to having their money transferred from their own bank accounts to those of the nation's broadcasters, sculptors and poets. It doesn't seem to bother most of us, but I still think it's been a big mistake.

Frankly, with all the serious things that can harm a country like Canada it's nice to have this one to kick around. I suspect Canadians put up with "welfare art" as penance for their insatiable appetites for American content. American television is better produced and written. A large percentage of Canada's succored hacks couldn't even dare to emulate it. I doubt they even care to.

Therein lies the rub. The "welfare art" crowd thinks Canadians should pay penance, too.

Thelma & Louise II - Now They Have Penises

With the new Kinsella/ Warman lawsuit pending against the owners of FreeDominion.ca Mark Steyn notes:

Celebrated Canadian ass-kicker Warren Kinsella has now joined his friend Richard Pieman in suing Free Dominion. Even by Warren's recent standards, this seems majorly lame. I wouldn't mind a chap suing over being called a Nazi were it not for the fact that Kinsella bandies Nazi accusations around so carelessly at anyone who disagrees with him - me, Ezra, Kate, Jay Currie, we're all Nazis. But, fortunately for him, we're non-litigious ones. So far.

Yes, Mr Steyn. It seems that Warren is lacking what most modern law-talking dudes lack, that is a spirit of the law. For one to sue for being called a Nazi I would think that such a person would be required to adhere to the spirit AND the letter of the law. Kinsella, a lawyer, clearly doesn't.

As for the duo of Kinsella / Warman, I wonder if they'll hold hands when they drive off the cliff.

Spirit of '71

Eric Burdon and War. (Yeah!)

Sadr Days

Looks like Al Sadr is feeling the heat.

Chavez Nationalizes Cement Industry

Over at Bloomberg.com an article about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez plans to nationalize the cement industry.

The nationalization order comes as Chavez seeks to relieve shortages due in part to the country's record oil income. The government is restricting food exports and Chavez said in January he would ban asphalt sales abroad as well. Chavez has accused building-material suppliers of establishing a monopoly that overcharges and slows home and road construction.

Meet William A. White

Ezra Levant and freedominion.ca thinks William A. White (AKA Bill White, Commander) may not be real but a simple Google search would have yielded this.

So, this is a guy who is known to locals as a bigot, he's on camera and further documented by roanoke.com as "William A. White, the commander of the American National Socialist Workers Party." That's a lot of social discomfort for one "F.B.I" plant and that is what the "real" Nazi's believe Bill A. White to be.

I would be suspicious of the internecine warfare between the dubious leaders of basement brand Neo-Nazism.

Wikipedia

'Roo Republic

Australian PM Kevin Rudd reaffirms his support to an Australian republic.

Here's hoping we follow suit. It seems silly for Canada to hang on to a heritage that is being absorbed into the broader European Union. Whether Canadians would admit this to pollsters or not, but we're more aligned with Yankee values than we are with Euro-Brit values.

Any average Canadian wholly expects the American system of rights to be taken as his own, perhaps with the exception of the second amendment, but they do none the less. What better way to to entrench those rights with the birth of a republic?

Yeah, That's the Ticket!

More bunkum from the Clintons.

Private Clinton

Get this. Hillary Clinton was gonna join the Army, but her eyes were so bad they wouldn't take her. Likely story, but if true confirms HRC is the Batman to Bill's Robin.

Russia Growing Up?

Here is an interesting opinion piece from the The Moscow Times.

During a recent meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Putin made an extremely important statement. "Under modern conditions, when there is no longer confrontation between two hostile systems, an endless expansion of the military and political alliance is not only impractical, but counterproductive," he said.

In other words, Putin admitted that NATO did not represent a military threat to Russia. What is actually bothering him then? His further comments provide the answer: "It would seem that attempts are being made to create an organization to take the place of the United Nations. NATO is already going beyond the scope of its mandate. We have nothing against helping Afghanistan, but ... this is not a NATO problem."

The entire article is rather optimistic, but that last phrase leaves the door open for an anti-NATO which diminishes the likelihood that our optimism is of equal amplitude.

UPDATE:
Putin doesn't want new Cold War.

ABCs, 123s, and STDs

I didn't write that headline. It's the actual title of the piece but I couldn't have come up with something better and it seems to fit.

The president of NOW, Kim Gandy says that abstinence and "Just Say NO" aren't working and that kids are coming up empty handed vis-a-vis sex education.

I don't come down on either side of this, honestly. I grew up with enough ignoramuses to know that sex education can be helpful to a kid whose parents just can't explain these things or even cared to do so. More than few I doubt were even capable of trying.

That being said, I wouldn't want my kids, if I had any, to learn about the birds and bees from the likes of NOW or any other leftie busy-body. All too often these people have supplemental agendas that involve alternative lifestyles, abortion and of course, gender politics. All of which have very little to do with Jimmy wondering if he can use tinfoil for a contraceptive. These people aren't interested in illuminating or defining a path through the myriad of consequences that modern sex entails. They want money and they want it to push something other than what they claim to be offering.

What kills me though, is that the Church knows full well that if you put a bunch of young people in a room and wave the prospect of having sex by way of arranging quick and easy marriages that the kids will marry and hook up. I wonder why NOW thinks that even with the best of intentions, that these horny teenagers won't take sex education as consent to have sex.

P.S. Me and my stoner buddies would've kicked up a right ruckus asking stupid questions like "Can you use tinfoil as a condom?". Just ask Sex with Sue who got more than one hopped up call from us.

From Sweden

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you guitar dickhead (and we're all dickheads trust me), Yngwie Malmsteen.

Calling Herecles

May the gods bring down a hail of stones for this mockery of the Olympic games. Surely the Greeks meant for free men and women to compete and not these barbarians.

Canada's 911?

From the Daily Mail.

A gang of British Muslims planned to blow up seven planes within hours in the biggest terrorist atrocity since 9/11, a court heard yesterday.

Two thousand passengers would have died in the plot by eight fanatics working "in the name of Islam", the jury was told.

It could have involved up to 18 suicide bombers. And they were almost ready to strike.

The jets they targeted would all have been bound from Heathrow to cities in the U.S. and Canada, it was claimed.

A little bit o' mud in the eyes of all those who cry that Canada isn't a terrorist target.

300 Part Deux

According to Israel's jpost.com, Iran continues to assemble centrifuges. However, they have yet to be linked up to the oppressive regime's main enrichment plant

The clock is ticking....

2001 - A Space Exposition

The key to understanding the opening of Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey is a simple understanding of symbolism. Accepting one can take the work of Clarke as symbolist is debatable, however the monolith is the one thing that can easily be called a symbol.

What does it symbolize? I think human progress. One day the apes wake up and there it is, like any technology really, it animates them, they rally around it and they kick the tires. Each epoch of humanity has had rallying points, flash points of technological advancement. With each step in the technological ladder, all of humanity, within the flash point, soaks up the new technology.

By that I mean, humanity takes a leap forward and your average human, over a steady period of exposure becomes a product of that technology. Basically, think about asking a person in the 70's if they think a font is a typeface or a type of Swedish dessert and they'd be likely to choose the latter.

The digitial revolution became an impetus for regular folk to educate themselves in the aspects of desktop publishing and all the sub-classes contained therein (color management, image manipulation, HTML, editing software etc...). Who would need to know any of this stuff in the 80's? And how would a person from the 80's react upon learning that one day he'll need to learn all of it?

Yet, here we are. Everybody within the sphere of the digital revolution can do these things, some to a greater degree than others, but my point is that everyone is doing and can do it. The one thing that stands before all is the computer. It is a monolith. We have poked and prodded, screamed and kicked at it (and still are) we have rallied around it and it probes each of us, drawing out these sleeping attributes. With it we have extended our selves around the entire planet.

This is what the monolith is. It is not God, not in the sense that these gods created the universe but they are playing with god-like power. Technically it's an extra-terrestrial probe/animator. It probes each ape as it approaches, seeking out attributes on which it can evolve. The monolith doesn't accelerate evolution in all the apes it touches, only a few that carry the seeds of intelligence. The is the literal function of Clark's monolith, from the book. It gets kinda deep when you read the 2001 saga.

The symbolic function is one of monolithic progress. In this case a simple bone, used as an implement to extend the apes reach. The ape teaches the others in his tribe how to maximize the benefits of this new technology, a bone. That's it. How the ape uses it is of no use to the monolith. It merely reports it's findings and in this case the sentients have decided they will check in later, a lot later.

The monolith did not create the conditions for an ape or a prehistoric-human to do murder. We see at the beginning that he is hungry, his family weary of prowlers and is struggling against his natural environment. He is not doing murder by using his bone-implement, he is surviving. He is extending the life of his family by supplying provisions that are now more easily procured and security by the brute force of his club.

These new conditions provide some leisure time, a time to dream, to plan to move forward.

Cut to Exterior of Orbiting Space Station....

I can't remember exactly if the scene of that ape smashing the bones is in the book, I think it's a Kubrick device and it's meant to convey exactly what i'm saying about the "bone". The bone is swung down into the bones of the dead animals and eventually on the upswing we cut to the space station. I think the shot is a symbol of man's low and high culture.

Play It Again, Madge.

In yet another display of my generation's commitment to originality Madge is remaking Casablanca.

Or maybe it isn't my generation's inability to create works that haven't been mined from classic rock. Maybe culture has been driven by spoon-fed dilettantes for just too long.

Bill Clinton Redux

Bill Clinton's freaking out again

This is rich:

It was "very good, very intense," said undeclared superdelegate Christine Pelosi, the daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

"The word 'tirade' may be used differently out here than in the rest of the country," said Chris Stampolis, who supports Clinton's presidential bid and also attended the meeting.

"There was not a single swear word, no screaming, no pounding on anything."

It's always what the definition of is is with these people.

OK, maybe Barack can't win, but if the Dems won't select the winner, why not Bill Richardson or John Edwards then?

OLDENSREVENGE's Namesake?

We already know that Dean Steacy uses the username JADEWARR. Apparently, he also uses another username called OLDENSREVENGE. To what extent he uses this name no one is sure yet, but here is a little background on who I believe to be OLDENSREVENGE's namesake.

Meet Rudolph Olden.

And something he wrote.

Is this who Dean Steacy is modeling one of his online alter egos after?

More to Come as it is available.

UPDATE:

From Rudolph Olden's Wikipedia page. Excerpted and translated through Babelfish

On the day after the realm tag fire Olden - by friends warned - could escape straight still in time an arrest. It went to Prague, where it published the essay "Hitler of the conquerers" in the following year anonymous. From Prague Olden went to Paris, where 1934 its much-considered documentation "black book concerning the situation of the Jews in Germany" appeared. Still in the same year Olden transferred the line of the newspaper the realm to Saarbruecken and engaged thereby much in the fight against the connection of the Saarland to the third realm.

During this time Olden could publish only in exile newspapers, like e.g.. the new diary, Paris day sheet or the collection. The diplomat Gilbert Murray invited Olden due to some of these essays to hold in London and Oxford lectures on German history and home policy.

Rudolph Olden, it appears, was a sort resistance writer. Forced into exile and publishing Anti-Hitler screeds anonymously from Prague. According to this:

"He is known as an Anti-Nazi defence lawyer..."

He was a member of an ad hoc government in exile, a senator in fact.

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WRITTEN WORKS of Rudolph Olden

* Letters from the years 1935-1936 (Rudolf Olden, Peter Olden) [ Hrsg. of Charmian Brinson... ]
* The history of the liberty in Germany. Publishing house "other Germany 1948.
* Hindenburg or the spirit of the Prussian army. Barley mountain, Hildesheim 1982, ISBN 3-8067-0911-4 (Repr. D expenditure. Paris 1935).
* Hitler of the conquerers. Exposing a legend. Fischer, Frankfurt/M. 1984, ISBN 3-596-25185-0 (Repr. D expenditure. Amsterdam 1935).
* In deep darkness Germany lies. By Hitler drove out, one year German emigration. Metropol publishing house, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-926893-20-6.
* Prophet in German crisis. The marvelous or those Bewitched ones. A collection. Hg. v. Rudolf Olden. Rowohlt, Berlin 1932.
* Black book concerning the situation of the Jews in Germany. Paris 1934.
* So many books, so many prohibitions. Exhibition "the German PEN club in the exile 1933-1948". Bookseller combination, Frankfurt/M. 1981, ISBN 3-7657-1039-3.
* Stresemann. A biography. Rowohlt, Berlin 1929

Point & Prosecute

A man lit up a cigarette during a Jay's home game and no sooner had a plume of smoke wafted upwards another man stands up and snaps at a Sky Dome official. Then the man merely points to the offending smoker with his nose perched ever so high. Having prompted the official to repsond he takes his seat quickly and goes back to surveying the empty field. The official of course forced the required solution and dealt with the smoker.

Now, one can hardly take issue with a man doing his job and upholding the law. I can even sympathize with a an ardent citizen. But the manner in which it all played left me unsettled. After pointing out the offense the finger-wagging man acted as though nothing happened. He merely stared at the empty playing field as he had done before. If you looked away or were engaged in conversation you wouldn't have seen any of it. That got me thinking. Does this guy believe he can just point and prosecute? Does he really believe that the authorities exist to remove those things we find distasteful? We aren't required by common decency to mitigate some unpleasantness ourselves? No chance afforded a man to say he is a fool and correct his foolishness?

Of course not. I had never given much thought to the motive of the man who tattled on the smoker. But I think I know. You see, the man sat 10-12 rows behind the smoker in the open air ball field. I imagine that the tattler knew full well that the smoker will seek him out, he will look around for the person who ratted him out. How many people around the smoker would strain their necks to identify his accuser? The tattler did not want this to happen. He did not want to be seen. Why is that?

Maybe he was frightened of the man. He was not a small, he not did appear timid. Pointing people around like your born with a pedigree to do it certainly doesn't denote a demure character. Maybe he was embarrassed by the fact that the when smoke traversed the distance required to pass his lips it would be a fraction in the millions, if not billions, of the original plume. Most likely he was embarrassed for just being a tattler. People of conviction don't look away. They don't sit down quick enough so their actions go unnoticed.

It's why we westerners value a whistle-blower. Real whistle-blowers aren't afraid of the full glare of justice. They don't have the luxury of using authority as a blunt instrument. It would seem vulgar to even mention anonymity when speaking of real whistle-blowers but I must because it reveals something in my subject's character. That he avoided an awkward social interaction thus avoiding his having to truly bear witness is it not possible he feels he has a bone to whack the other with? Is it curious that the law and it's civilizing spirit is made party to the animation of humanity's more mundane and trivial darkness.

How many of us wish we could force people to have exact change at the ready when boarding public transit? And if only we were given the power to make them do it. Ask yourself that question when you're running late and that latte-sipping web developer can't remember which pocket he put his change in. We all have pet peeves we would see eradicated as though we were the fuhrer himself and with enough of us working to do just that, that is exactly what we'll be like but in a million little slivers.

And why be that when we can be Canada. As she is and has always been.

Down the Road A Peice

OK, that somebody is just mentioning this now, kinda puts a damper on the whole argument that Billary has been treated unfairly. In my estimation Mrs. Clinton took the low road when first she cried and then implied that she was being treated unfairly as a women. That would make sense if that whole teary episode was for assuaging the male vote. But it wasn't, it was meant to sway women voters, which actually makes her the sexist.

Most Dems endeavor in this sort of pandering so that they can crow about it later on, it's just funny when they have do it to each other.

Why is it, if I don't vote for a woman I'm a sexist and if I don't vote for black man I'm a racist? And can we say the same of people who don't vote for McCain because he isn't a woman or black?

The Communist Olympiad II

Basically, the recent event won't diminish those who practice "good intentions". Quite the contrary, it'll be absolutely imperative that we go ahead with the Olympics like it's a great big bear hug. We can't isolate them and now, more than ever, we must embrace China to further advance Western ideas on human rights. After all, that's why we in Canada got screwed and China won the bid.

One Is Many

Here is a little dittie from the Hill Times. This is how a real news item is written, unlike the efforts of the Sun News Corp. My thoughts on that here.

An excerpt:

Liberal MP Bryon Wilfert (Richmond Hill, Ont.) said the Conservative strategy is to "scare off" the Liberals and pressure them into offering an apology. "I think this government is becoming lawsuit happy. They seem to want to sue people for asking legitimate questions. It wasn't very long ago that they were asking these types of questions when we were the government, and now the shoe is on the other foot, and they don't seem prepared to come forth," he said. "They served that notice to Stéphane at breakfast at Stornoway, which I thought was pretty cheap."

Hmmm, if the PMO is lawsuit happy with one lawsuit in the works would that make Mark Holland a serial snooper?

Prediction: This issue will end Dion's leadership.

The "Democrats"

Courtesy of NYT.

Some superdelegates think they should reflect the will of the voters. The Democratic Party? No, that would make sense and the Dems don't.

Yesterday's News From The Future

OK, here is the Sun on the Liberals titled Liberals could use privilege to delay testifying in libel suit. Please note that the entire article is about Stephen Harper and the CPC and their alleged involvement in this so-called Cadman Affair. It's a lot to say for something that might be a futureevent that never happens, isn't it?

Liberal MPs could invoke parliamentary privilege to delay testifying in the prime minister’s libel suit over bribery allegations — a tactic Stephen Harper himself has used before.

Noticeably absent is any reportage on the subject of the headline. The Liberals posted the defamatory comments, they weren't merely published but published by someone under a directive. Decisions were made and there are events that led up to it. Why not recount those details, too?

South America Shuffle

Venezuelan and Ecuadorian forces have amassed on the Columbian border for this killing of a FARC leader inside the borders of Ecuador.

The balance of power is shifting in South America and it isn't shifting in favour of liberty. It's interesting that so many on the left condemn the outsourcing of Iraqi security operations to private American firms and think nothing of both Venezuela and Ecuador showing an unwavering support for FARC. Support that is expressed ultimately as a show of force on behalf of the terrorist organization. The FARC have been in a state of permanent revolution since the sixties and no doubt have filled their ranks with the worst sort of opportunists one could imagine. The idea that Comrade Chavez and Friends have a mere concern for their sovereignty and aren't looking with a roaming eye for any chance to move on the continent, would be a foolish idea.

UPDATE:
Chavez has FARC on the payroll?

And evidence found in the raid suggests that Chavez recently gave the FARC $300 million, Colombia's national police chief said Monday.

The Living Man

What to make of the Cadman Affair? I hope it isn't true. Lot's of people are pretty confident that it will come to nothing. PM Harper has fired off a libel notice to Goodale, Ignatieff and Dion. So, he has an ace up his sleeve, it looks like. Could be a bluff.

The thing that I keep thinking about are the living actions of Chuck Cadman. If most Canadians have given themselves over to forfeiting any grievance towards a dead man, I say fine. At this point there seems little value in debating that inclination. But, if this story spirals into something more and the actions of Chuck Cadman go unaccounted for how can any person say with certainty what had happened?

Any conservative should concern themselves with the particulars of this story and speak up where the actions of our elected officials aren't aligned with our principles. But, we should also remember that whatever imbroglio the PMO has fallen into, the living Mr. Cadman was a party to it. Whether Mr. Cadman proves himself squeaky clean or otherwise, his actions, his words will be brought to bear scrutiny. The task for conservatives is to diminish the opportunity for our opponents to ramp up a maudlin pageant and still display a level of solemnity due the Cadman family.

I never had any problem with Chuck Cadman's sustaining vote for the Martin government. I didn't agree with him, but I appreciated his reasons for remaining outside that white hot pyre in his last days.

And this...

William F. Buckley (November 24, 1925 - February 27, 2008)

It'll take everyone last one of us to stand in his place.

I'm back...

... to blog this.

The boy could play. Yes, yes.

Retooling U.S. Foreign Policy

Victor Davis Hanson thinks:

On the other fronts, the outlook is not so encouraging. Iran was given a great gift with the National Intelligence Estimate’s de facto clean bill on nuclear proliferation, a finding that undermined almost all current multilateral efforts to embargo or boycott the theocracy until it is transparent about enrichment.

Somehow our politically tainted intelligence agencies argued the near laughable: claiming that Iran stopped making the bomb in 2003 (so that we need not worry now), and yet insisting that such abrupt cessation had nothing to do, as was true in the case of Libya, with our removal of Saddam Hussein (so that no one gets any credit). Far from drawing us back from the brink, the naïve and politicized findings — meant to restrain the much caricatured Bush — have instead only eroded much of the peaceful avenues to prevent Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon (Stanley Kurtz has argued here).

Read it here.

To The Polls

Courtesy of the StarPhoenix

"Note who is laying the boobytraps and the trip wires. It's the government," said Goodale from Ottawa.

"Stephane Dion will not be content in just picking holes in the activities of the Conservative government. They have presented us with a target-rich environment but Mr. Dion will have a clearly-articulated platform . . . to lay out in detail how we would do things differently and better."

Whenever Mr. Goodale or anybody in the Liberal party, really, I wonder how long it will take the Martinites to give up and go home. Paul Martin used language like this all the time. Mr. Martin, I swear said clearly a billion time in the last election. Usually to state soemthing like "Clearly, I'm being perfectly clear when you ask me that question that I clearly can't give a straight answer to. Yes, absolutely, positively"

I digress. So where is Mr. Goodale going with this? Clearly, when Mr. Dion get's his nth chance to prove to Canadians he isn't a promise gone horribly wrong his talking heads will say he's "clearly-articulated" in the hopes of mitigating Dion's mangling of "da Hanglish".

This is two major cracks in the Liberal tough guy facade they've been masquerading around in. I wonder which confidence vote suits Mr. Dion's fancy. Oops, make that three

Isn't time that some sort of "cowboy" pic of Dion to be plastered across the front pages of all the dailies? I wonder if Dion can catch a football?

We Throw Pies, Too

The Hoax.

What I think about it:

Is it beyond the pale? No, not really. It's hardly any different from a conservative or some other leftie villain getting pied. It signifies nothing and I would bet has only further re-enforced a portion of the right's appraisal of him. Mr. Kinsella will not lose any friends over it and we 'speechy-nistas' will benefit nothing. Nothing.

I'm a supporter of FreeDominion.ca,Ezra Levant, Maclean's / Steyn and stridently opposed to Warren Kinsella and The CJC (in what I believe is a gross over-extension of any religous authority's purview). But I fail to see the advantage to be gained here (except to heighten the noteriety of the hoaxer) for conservatives but more importantly, free speech in Canada.

Warren Kinsella, is an incidental player, a good humored one at that. He is no different from any of us who post our opinions on the blog-o-sphere. If and when Levant and company meet their executioner, it won't be Warren's face under the hood. Pie throwing will avail them, not.

I wonder though, doesn't that arm marked by the fake holocaust number look a little tight to be 60+ years old? Makes me wonder who is getting "got" here?

More Doh

Why did I remove the post about Kinsella?

Well, whatever Warren accomplished by posting the bathroom wall Nazi image, he did so in good faith. I was grossly insensitive to that and by extension to jews everywhere. This occured to me on Sunday and that whatever my concerns were they were better served through debate, point-counterpoint, sturmm und drang, whatever.

I feel doubly justified in my actions in light of the recent hoax played on Mr. Kinsella.

FULL DISCOSURE:

I made no remarks towards jews. I was being a perfect right-wing krank and I was being a little insulting to Mr. Kinsella. C'mon, I'm a neo-con, people.

The Sun Says It

Peter Worthington thinks Billary's demise is sealed. Now, I wouldn't say it just yet, having predicted to myself that she was going down and having that thwarted by the wily Clintons. Twice.

More Clinton-Obama:

Hillary Clinton replaces loyal campaign manager
Maine Puts Topper On Obama Sweep
Clinton badly needs Virginia victory
The Note: Barack's Big Roll

Doh

I wrote some not very nice things in regards to Warren Kinsella, things I didn't need to write. I've deleted the post thinking my blerg was still sans traffic, but then saw that Warren(name used for response) had posted a response here.

This is the text:

"No, like you they are too gutless to send an email using their real name.

They fear shame. You do to it turns out."

Not for anything I believe, but in my conduct towards you in the post I've removed.

My apologies for pissing you off.

Romney Out

Mitt Romney is out.

"If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror," Romney told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington

That is the best possible spin he could put on this, I think. Here's hoping McCain comes to his senses and tags him for VP. He'll need everything Romney offers in electibility.

The Floodgates Crack Just A Little?

The Western Standard has it.

If anybody had a right to complain to an HRC for the same offense suffered by Mohamed Elmasry it's the Christians. Who's next?

Update:

And there is this from the Standard.

NYT on Clinton and Some Obama

This is the headline:

Obama and Clinton Settle In for the Long Run

Yet, a scant 2 paragraphs are devoted to Mr. Obama and one of them is a quote. The rest is about Hillary's campaign for her inevitable rise to the Presidancy and some Republican coverage.

Mrs. Clinton and her advisers countered that she should now be considered the underdog, even though they believe she emerged from Tuesday’s voting with a small lead in delegates, though the actual delegate totals remained muddled. Mrs. Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, said in a conference call Wednesday afternoon that Mr. Obama had become the candidate of the Democratic “establishment,” because of his endorsement by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and a number of other senators and governors.

Maybe she is the underdog. Who knows? The comeback-kid meme seems to work for Billary and if ain't broke...

Update:

Hmmmm...

Clinton Loans Herself Money For Campaign

Mrs. Clinton, the word inevitable doesn't mean the same thing as persistance. Wonder if she'll pay her employees.

Bourqe Posts A Bunch

Bourque has lots o' links for y'all. Cuz he doesn't host and overwrites his page, here there are.

NATO

MACKAY'S STERN WARNING TO NATO
NATO MEMBERS LIKELY TO IGNORE PLEAS TO SHARE AFGHAN BURDEN
AFGHAN FAILURE WILL BRING TERROR TO THE WEST
FRANCE MULLS TROOPS FOR MISSION IN SOUTH
WEEKLY AFGHAN BRIEFINGS TO BEGIN

Canada / Afghan Politics

LIBERALS DIVIDED
Weston: War without end
NatPost: Afghan showdown
Mayeda/O'neill: Should we stay or leave
Martin: PM stakes power on Afghanistan
CalHrld: Libs must decide on Afghanistan
Yaffe: Tories get Afghan reality check
Spencer: A war on two fronts

Frank Zappa's King Kong

The BBC, despite being a state-run entity manages to create decent programming. From comedy to drama to history the Beeb does it so well. If only their news division could keep up.

As for music I offer this as a testament to the BBC's commitment to posterity rather than nightly ratings. The Inestimable Frank Zappa and the (Original) Mothers of Invention.

Some Super Tuesday Reportage

From ABC. McCain soars and the Romney and Huckabee with the Dem candidates are back in fighting form, until the next primary when they start playing nice again.

Harper's First One on One Interview

the IRPP has an interview with Prime Minister Stephen Harper nad it's his first one since his election apparently.

Note the response that Harper intends to govern until 2009. That may change when the Afghan mission goes to a confidence motion. The mandate set by the Conservatives to govern though to 2009 could only work if the opposition let them govern, otherwise if the coservatives actually held fast to their mandate the oppostion could effectively enforce a lame-duck Prime-ministership.

Afghanistan a Confidence Motion

Taking my advice (hehe, just kidding), the Harper Conservatives are putting their efforts to entend the mission in Afghanistan to a test of confidence. All this follows the meeting between the PM and Stephane Dion

Courtesy: CBC

Super Tuesday Results

Via Drudge

CLINTON: AR, AZ, CA, MA, NY, NJ, OK, TN
OBAMA: AK, AL, CT, CO, DE, GA, ID, IL, KS, MN, MO, ND, NM, UT

HUCKABEE: AL, AR, GA, TN, WV
MCCAIN: AZ, CA, CT, DE, IL, MO, NJ, NY, OK
ROMNEY: CO, MA, MN, MT, ND, UT

Delegates:
Clinton: 825
Obama: 732

McCain: 615
Romney: 268
Huckabee: 169

MaCain is the man and Obama landed within his target (a max difference of 100 delegates when compared to Clinton). Wonder if he'll stick around.

Update:
Yes, he will.

We Eagerly Await Napolean's Return

Man Alive! Figuring out where the left start and ends is a daunting task. Here is Kinsella's own opinion vis-a-vis the appropriate expression of contempt for hate groups:

Ironically, what I favour most of all is citizen-based advocacy, with no human rights commissions or Criminal Code provisions being necessary at all. Make group defamation easier to do - that is the best way for a society to express itself. When that was done in Oregon in the 1990s with the White Aryan Resistance, it put them out of business. They have never recovered. That is always the way to go, to me - citizen-based advocacy. Being condemned by a peer is always more effective than being pursued by a bureaucrat.

Hmmmm, more free speech, Warren? Not less?

* the title relates to the French Press' attitude towards Napolean as he returned from Exile and landed on France's doorstep. Prior to that he would only be referred to as a usuper of French sovereignty. Point being, as he krept closer the press did their best to appear to have always supported Napolean, thus proclaiming him, once again, Emperor of France

More Unwitting Nazis

This time the National Post rides to the rescue of the Nazis and their unwitting supporters, Levant,Steyn,FreeDominion,Globe and Mail,National Post, Keight Martin, the B'Nai Brith, Rex Murphy and it seems a great many Canadians. I wonder if the anti-speech left are finding that their stupid analogies are far from apt.

CPC for "Ancient Freedoms"

Jason Kenney (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity), CPC) and Wayne Marston (East Hamilton-Stoney Creek-NDP) square off during Question Period in Parliment.

Mr. Wayne Marston (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, the Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity deserves an opportunity to respond to allegations made recently by Ezra Lavant, who is head over heels for the Liberal motion that would gut the Canadian Human Rights Act. Mr. Levant says that the Secretary of State supports his view that “these commissions are violating human rights, not protecting them”.

Knowing their shared history and personal relationship, I thought it best to clarify the Conservative position on this illogical Liberal motion.

Could the Secretary of State clearly state today that all Conservative MPs will vote against the motion and that he personally condemns the motion in the strongest possible terms?

Hon. Jason Kenney (Secretary of State (Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity), CPC):
Mr. Speaker, I am absolutely on the public record defending freedom of speech. This government and this party believe in our constitutionally entrenched and protected rights to freedom of expression, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. We will always defend those freedoms, those ancient freedoms.

Not really an answer to the question, at least not the one Mr. Marston is asking, but it answers mine and a great many CPC supporters.

Iran On Track To Destroy Israel

The Mossad thinks Iran will have nukes within three years.

Fruther down the page Brietbart thinks it's about perception:

Israel has long perceived Iran as its greatest threat, especially after Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad relaunched its nuclear enrichment programme and repeatedly predicted the demise of the Jewish state.

Mellisa Etheridge Must Be Wetting Herself

Three parent babies.

Calling Henry Kissinger...

...Stephane Dion needs your help navigating his clumsy triangulated strategy.

I love this, Dion's supreme political cock-up is PM Harpers to fix.

"Ideally, I would like to see (a consensus)," Dion said. "The Prime Minister a week ago ... said that he will come with more specifics about his position. I hope he will start to do that."

The onus is on the Conservative leader to explain how he wants to proceed with a vote in Parliament this spring that will decide the fate of the mission, Dion said. Harper said last week he hoped to line up Liberal support for the vote before presenting it to the Commons.

No doubt, Harper will play along. But, if I had my druthers, I'd druther that Mr. Harper tell Dion to put up or go make a deal with Jack Layton.

Meanwhile, Peter McKay has his hands full convincing Nato to pony up more troops. I guess the 2 Polish helicoptors will be a great help to our aid workers if our fighting men and women are pulled out of Afghanistan in 2009.

Obama Pulls Ahead

The CBC on Billary's diminishing popularity, I guess in an effort to get out in front this before they look like a bunch of Daydream Johnnies.

Update:

More from CNN/Zogby/Reuters.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama surged to a big lead over Hillary Clinton in California hours before "Super Tuesday" voting began in 24 states, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.

Obama has also won the first contest amongst Indonesian-Americans.

Kevin Steel is Stirring It Up.

Is this the latest salvo thrown in the debate between Free Speech Abosolutist Nazis and the Herioc Defenders of Lawyer-Speech?

Careful people, this is one hot potato!

Update:

Kinsella responds:

God's teeth! Agent Kinsella's response: so, um, Kev, I’m looking at the index to the second edition of Web of Hate, see? And it says “Grant Bristow” is found on pages 2, 235, 258-259, 273-274, 281, 293, 296, 298 and 300. (Multiple times, in some places.)

I haven't read Web of Hate and for all I know Kinsella is rattling off pages illustrating the times he had tea with Mr. Bristow sometime around turn of the 18th century.

But I do know this, and I think Kinsella will find this anology entertaining, that Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange North American initial release opted to leave out the last chapter, leaving the reader to believe that "Little Alex" had reformed to his old Ultraviolent self. But, the current edition can be found here in North America with it's 21st chapter in tact and guess what, damned if "Little Alex" doesn't grow up and decides that maybe he'd like a family-life and the domestic tranquility exhibited by his former droog, Pete. But for people who read it twenty-thirty years ago and haven't looked back, well "Little Alex" is still on about the Ultraviolence. Point being, second editions are there for a reason and sometimes the scope of the book is broadened or protracted as history and the author's tastes warrant.

But that works for Mr. Steel, too.

They All Do It

Thanks to Freedominion.ca for the heads up on the ongoing CBC scandal.

Ottawa Sun columnist Greg Weston, who was on Mike Duffy Live when Mr. Duffy received the message, said if the Conservatives want to call Mr. Rodriguez, they should also call "every single Conservative MP who sat in opposition" because they did the same thing. "This is a daily thing," Mr. Weston said. "This is the most trumped up, ridiculous pandering to the Conservative core who believe that the CBC is part of the enemy and now it´s been proven we´re part of the enemy too. Well, as you always know, if there are two lists, I want to be on the black one."

Very good, Mr. Weston. Perhaps 2008 may be the year that the media realizes it's not supposed to be so cozy with the inner circle of our nation's government.

For the sake of clarity though, there is a significant difference between shilling questions for the opposition to use in the service of partisan animation and colluding with a state sponosored reporter to significantly alter the course and purview of the Mulroney/Schreiber Inquiry. That's the main event, people.

Frankly, if Krista Erickson was lambasted for her part in the real contraversy, she was either justifiably punished or unfairly rebuked and that we can't seem to get that straightened out, Mr. Pablo Rodriguez, the Liberal Party and the CBC still have some explaining to do.

Cortesy : The Hill Times - Bea Vongdouangchanh Author

The Democrat's Quagmire

NRO has an article on the Dem's insistence that every war is in fact a repeat of the Viet-Nam conflict. The whole Viet-Nam meme didn't do John Kerry any favours but I'm betting that it won't get the Republicans any repeat business either.

In its simplest form, VS causes its sufferers to view every military action through the template of the Vietnam War. In its advanced stages, they take this tendency a step further, seeing everything that occurs in politics and government as a rerun of the 1960s and 1970s. It’s like that game where you cast your friends as characters on Gilligan’s Island.

More Support for Nazi Free Speech Absolutists?

Chinese web surfers have had it with government censorship:

Officials in our country claimed that Internet censorship is done according to the law,” Mr. Zhu wrote. “If so, why not let people know about this legal project, and why, instead, ban the Web sites that publicize and examine those legal policies? If you’re determined to do this, you shouldn’t be afraid of criticism.”

I agree Mr. Zhu. To be fair, we aren't banning web sites critical of the HRC, but it's proponents are afraid of the criticism.

The Crux of the Biscuit...

..to paraphrase the inestimable Frank Zappa. Clinton finally says it:

The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC's "This Week," she said: "I think there are a number of mechanisms" that are possible, including "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment."

OK, the idea of taxation runs counter to core American values. So much so that politicians are forced to actually state that they are going to take away part of your average American's wages. Isn't that just the bee's knees?

Read it here

Dion, he just keeps giving...

Dion's media trouncing continues.

Mr. Dion wants an end to combat activities in a year's time and troops reassigned to training and security activities for civilian protection, development and reconstruction.

Presumably, the under-manned NATO mission won't have any problems protecting Canadian aid workers when our men and women of the armed forces come home.

Mr. Harper, let's have an election as soon as possible.

A million Government Grants...

Would never get this thing made. Here it would be called CanadaArm II.

Longest Conservative Minority

The Harper Conservatives will celebrate their two-year anniversary as a minority government. The Prime Minister distinguishes himself from the likes of Joe Clark and Arthur Mehan by being the Conservative PM to preside the longest over a minority government.

(and the longest small-c conservative, ever!)

National Post - Harper's minority still rules to make Canadian history

Ottawa Citizen - The wisdom of the minority

A Modern Day Machievelli Gets His Come-Uppance?

Warren Kinsella thinks the latest investigation into his former bosses contracting practices is aimed squarely at him and his friends.

Didn't Machievelli state that to effectively govern a hostile or foreign nation one had to annex it's most vocal opponents?

Partisan warfare is Kinsella's specialty. Of course if he thinks a dagger dangles over his head, he would know it. But it isn't all about Kinsella, but rather his former boss and irregular contracting guidelines.

I can't help but feel that Mr. Kinsella's troubles might abate were he to avail himself of the stone around his neck. For a "Modern Day Machiavelli" it can't all be about loyalty, can it? Can Kinsella sit back and have his game played against him or worse, without him?

Like Bill "The Butcher" might say, one more time for the sweet souvenir.

Aren't HRCs powerless in the Global Age? Part II

A comment over at BigCityLib makes this distinction:

"HRC's are a mechanism by which disputes are mediated and resolved...not an instrument of censorship"

That's true, HRCs aren't explicit censors, merely unwitting ones. The case of Ezra Levant and another one against Maclean's Magazine bolster my case. That the various proponents of hate speech law can't seem to divest themselves of the logic implying that we "speechynistas" are in fact Nazi sympathizers, they are subverting the specious case against Levant/Steyn/Maclean's as more business-as-usual Nazi hunting. Though the proponents of HRCs freely admit that the HRCs maybe acting speciously in the case of Levant and Co, it has done little to help the defendants by painting them as unwitting Nazis.

Whether a malignant goverment body proclaims that they are explicit censors through legislation or on their Masthead is a pretty naive understanding of how censorship in a free democracy can exist. In countries opposed to western values of free speech, that ideal is overt, there is no pretense suggesting otherwise. In western societies, where freedom of speech is valued at a premium, (or ought be IMAO) any overt movement to supress or deny that ideal must do so via stealth or through innocuous government oversight. Though the latter is clearly less severe (probably accidental, too) than say a real campaign of goverment coerced censorship, it's effects still are felt. In this case Levant/Maclean's/Steyn and FreeDominion.ca are the ones swimming against that ripple. Unfortunately, for the HRCs professional plaintiffs, the neo-nazi issue is done and over with.

Ernst Zundel happened. No Nazi smarter than a tack will replicate the actions of Zundel. First, they will move their servers elsewhere, outside of the jurisdiction of Canada's HRCs. Failing that they'll just leave and go where they may incite "hatred" with impugnity. All the while avoiding prosecution by artfully staying within the limits of libel and slander speech codes. You may get Canadians to go along with the HRC but Americans will be a much tougher nut to crack. Maybe we could put pressure on the tinpot goverments who see a future in providng free speech services to beleaguered western states? Is anyone starting to see the cost overrun and the diplomatic legwork required to fully protect Canadians from "hate" speech in a globalized world. Let's hope so.

But that brings me to another question. Now that the big fish have been scared off will the HRCs professional plantiffs continue to hunt smaller game? Do we really need them to arbitrate the opinions of the Western Standard, Macleans and FreeDominion?

Maybe Part III will be about how conservative writers and blogcommenters now need to resort to the same evasive tactics that those grubby neo-jerries employ. What will the cost be for the service providers of Canada? Will Ezra and Mark take each other's hand and drive straight into the canyon? Will Shirlene McGovern undergo a Linda Tripp style makeover. I guess we'll see.

Note: It occurs to me that referring to the HRCs as predatory body is probably out of bounds and none too accurate. I've edited this post to correct that. My error was one of classification and not of ill intent.

Aren't HRCs powerless in the Global Age?

The following link is a video of Paul Fromm, eugenist and Confederate apologist.

Paul Fromm Speaks at 2004 Duke Conference - Part 1

There is absolutely nothing any HRC can do to stop you and me from seeing this much less preclude fevered minds from actively pursuing a violent course for redress. The "haters" need only to hop around the globe looking for any safe haven from which to peddle their bunk. Have your self a chuckle at Canada's burning of hate literature and then charging the intended recipient for the "bullet" as it were. That's pretty quaint stuff in a global village in the age of instant media.

Frankly, the world would be a nicer place without the likes of Paul Fromm or David Duke, but try to find a stone big enough to hide them under. You can't do it. Neither can the HRCs or it's many defenders.

Or Maybe China has the answer.

P.S. Tommy Douglas was a eugenist who enjoyed a Road to Damascus conversion upon seeing his Brave New World in action via The Nazis. If the HRC enforced laws in 1933 the way it enforces those laws now, at the behest of professional plaintiffs we never would have heard of the "Father of Canadian HealthCare".

Note: Again I was inaccurately imbuing Canada's HRC with the power to positively censor Canadian citizens. They can't, but professional plaintiffs can, as we've seen, with moderate success.

A Scandal from this Decade and Century...

The Chronicle Herald is reporting this. Remember how Mulroney has been repeatedly investigated for breaches of ethics, oh for what, twenty years now? Well this is a little more recent and actually has ramifications for the modern body politic.

Investigators found seven of the contracts were not properly authorized, including cases where the cost was higher than the approved amount and others where there was no signature at all.

Four of the contracts contained no statement of the work required, and in two contracts the description of the work was drawn up by the contractor rather than the government.

Good stuff, read it.

Special mention for Bourque who leads with the story on his site.

Humoring Ann Coulter

More viddy from the Billary Campaign. Strange bedfellows indeed. Funny how the left can take Ms. Coulter in good humour if it means swinging some votes, eh?

Yikes! More CNN Grief

CNN is once again under fire. It turns out their in-house conservative, Bill Bennet, donates to the McCain campaign.

The author is probably reading too much into this, Carville and Begala are notorious Clinton backers, they've worked on Bubba's campaigns for him. Now, I don't agree that they should have been taken off the air, so I wouldn't support removing Bennet. However, if he has to sit out the remainder of the Republican primary, so what?

Adler & The Tyranny of Politeness

Adler hits another one out of the ball park. Leo Strauss might say Mr. Adler was less subtle than he'd like, but sometimes the sub-text should jump out at you.

Obama - Clinton: Neck-and-Neck

Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll has Obama and Clinton running a tie race. Good news for Barrack, bad news for Billary.

Remember this?



Update:
Huffington Post is calling it an Obama Surge, that's the headline anyway. The meat is on the inside which confirms the Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll showing a close rose between the two remaining Democratic nominees.

Update II:
The New Republic has this. Putting Mr. Obama in the lead for California (didn't Hil beeline for CA after her SC trouncing?). Mitt looks like he's making some headway, too. Let's hope Mr. Romney can at least thwart Huck's veep ambitions.

Is "Section 13" doomed?

There is much ballyhoo about Liberal MP Keith Martin's private motion. In it Mr Martin call on the Canadian Government to:

M-446 — January 30, 2008 — Mr. Martin (Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca) — That, in the opinion of the House, subsection 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act should be deleted from the Act.

While this is an ideal solution, I think exposure and time will doom the current application of Section 13 if not it's place in our constitutional order.

Let's consider that for one thing, the HRCs of this country have been benefiting from public apathy. Nothing you could attribute to any overt maliciousness, merely one of disconcern for what seemed a required function of government. The HRCs began flexing some new found muscles and with that came greater public scrutiny. The result is that Canadians know more about thier Human Rights Commissions and some will learn how to play them. Some will file frivolous lawsuits and others will attempt to supplant a higher ruling against them and use these HRCs to extract a legal victory where denied by a higher court. And yet still, others will rail against the system devising ever more clever traps by which to expose alleged biases and shenanigans. We can't forget the serially offended, either.

The nattering nabobs of the left comfort themselves in the preachy veneer of limited-speech and suggest from on high that a grown-up democracy, one that has excepted the virtues of limited speech, can overcome these challenges to human rights. But that's doubtful. Eventually the document load will get too big, too many complaints will be lodged, more layers of beuracracy, more subsections, more lawyers and presumably more HRCs.

Whatever they do, the ease with which one can lodge a Human Rights complaint will change. How meaningful it will be or can be remains to be seen. Charging money to the plaintiff would breach the tribunals mandate to afford access to minorities. There might be some promise in requiring the state to pick up the tab for aquitted defendants but would require more state oversight. And with it more partisan oversight, too.

Eventually, this gets to the Canadian people and I think that because of the free speech issues that currently sit at our doorstep we'll see an increase in advocacy for free speech heretofore unheard on the snow-baffled landscape of Canada. Which will of course add to that heavy load on the back of limited speech.

Jonah Goldberg On BNN

Here is Jonah Goldberg discussing his new book Liberal Fascism. I was pretty stunned to see him North of the Border, maybe he disguised himself as a socialist and walked right in.

A book like this is required reading for free born canucks everywhere.

Jonah's segment starts at the 32:00 mark.

More hemorrhaging on the Clinton Campaign

The Union Leader has piece by Paul Hertneky.

My guess is that this isn't indicitive of anything, but it may mean just enough of Billary's supporters are availing themselves of the "inevitable" candidate mentality that there may be considerable aggregate losses. But if the Clintons choke and weeze their way across the finish line, it all means very little. Unless of course your opponent is indistinguishable from your own self.

Um, this is Britain?

Just read it...

BigCityLibs Consternation...

Blogger's own BicCityLib laments the treament of Bill Clinton by America's MSM. ABC news reported pretty much the same thing as highlighted by Drudge earlier this week.

Slick Willie gets what he deserves, kettles and pots and all that, but he didn't say exactly what the news outlets are claiming he said. They didn't even come close to making Clintons point. If I were Barrack Obama, I'd call the media out on it, he could remind everyone that Clinton already served as president.

Also, National Review's Jonah Goldberg thinks it's pretty unfair.

Harper extends an olive branch?

The Globe & Mail hosts a discussion between Brian Laghi and the G&M's readers.

First, let me say that it's probably a good idea for Harper to adopt a more approachable position where Afghanitistan is concerned. It's quite a thing we're doing over there and quite often unclear to most of us Canadians what we're trying to achieve. We know the various positions of three of the parties, I guess we're all just wondering if the Libs are gonna flip or if they'll flop.

Give the whole article a read there's some stuff about The Hill, the CPC agenda etc...