This is a great interview with Kanan Makiya on Iraq.
Kanan Makiya: I’ve reached a point where I don’t even bother to reply to such critics. They are just not serious people any more; they are expressions of failure, inactivity, and irresponsibility, rather than critics of substance and with serious ideas. My case has always rested […]
It always amazes me how rare politicians are who have the ability to position themselves in a way that doesn’t turn off or demonize huge swaths of the electorate. Bill Clinton was able to do it, Reagan was too. But the order of the day (especially here in Canada) is to consciously split […]
This article is form a few months back but I really think it deserves some additional google juice. It’s pathetic to me how much truck the wildest conspiracy theories have on the internet, and if one more person I haven’t talked to in years forwards me that ridiculous flash animation “proving” that the pentagon […]
The fallout from the Canadian Supreme court decision ruling a patient’s right to seek care supercedes the right of the government to enforce a health-care monopoly continues to reverberate throughout the country. Canada is the only developed nation which dissallows private citizens from seeking private medical insurance. NWM cub reporter jc noted that […]
How long has it been since I’ve posted to this blog? I figure I had best put something up lest you all drop me from your rss readers. Posting will resume at a more regular pace in a short while. I’ve been under duress getting my business affairs in order, struggling just […]
The thing I still don’t get how Stronach believes her cosying up with Martin is going to quel separatist fires in Quebec, unless of course she doesn’t. Best quote of the day was found by Terrence Corcoran for his Financial Post commentary:
“This is a move by big money. Magna Corp., controlled by Stronach’s father, […]
While the blogosphere has been wringing its collective hands over the potential threat to free speech if McCain-Feingold were to be applied to the letter, classifying blogs as subject to campaign finance regulation, things were already worse in BC. Here’s an excerpt from Darren Barefoot at Urban Vancouver.
I called up Elections BC this morning, […]
I think I’m going to be sick.
And then there’s this shocking (ie completely unshocking) allegation: The same network controlled the appointment of judges. During the 2000 elections, the party had a stable of about 20 big-time Montreal lawyers working for them for free. Or perhaps, not quite for free: Several of them were subsequently rewarded […]
I don’t have time to invest in a lot of analysis on Adscam. At least not as much as I’d like to. Joe Katzman has a great roundup of the issues at WoC. Though Joe is Canadian, his blog is decidedly international, and as such, he takes time to explain the details, […]
I suppose the fact that thousands of Ukrainian-Canadians were interned in labour camps during WWI should not surprise me, but I have to admit that it does. I’m not surprised from a historical perspective, the early 20th century was certainly a far more brutal and rascist period than we live in now.
I am surprised […]
TNR has published a compelling article that makes the case for liberal support for Wolfowitz to head up the World Bank.
The Author, G. Pascal Zachary, opints out something that I’ve been noting for years. That the American Liberal and Conservative activism on the World Bank is in agreement more than not. I recall […]
Hey, everyone knows that Americans are becoming more conservative. A recent Economist/YouGov poll even shows that around 30% of respondents believe they are more conservative over the last 10 years, and just under 20% believe they have become more liberal. Amongst Americans there was a similar spread in sentiment to the question of […]
I thought it was pretty bizarre that Carly Fiorina was the leading candidate to head the World Bank. She’s no doubt a pretty capable person, but has no experience in development or banking, and its been less than a month since her unceremonial dismissal from HP. The economist made joke last week that […]
Well the National Post didn’t print my letter, but they did publish an unsigned editorial that said it all, and much clearer since it clearly has more than 3 minutes of cold-medicine induced productivity in it.
It shouldn’t be all that surprising, since the Post seems to print a pro-legalization editorial every month or so, but […]
Slate has an impressive assessment of Hosni Mubarak’s rule over Egypt. There’s no doubt that there is an appetite for democratic reform, and that Mubarak has run the country as an autocrat, but by ME standards he hasn’t done all that badly by the average Egyptian which is why many people point out […]
John Ivison of the National Post tactlessly takes advantage of the killing of 4 Mounties to promote harsher laws for marijuana cultivation in his March 5th column. Here’s my pithy, way-too-late-to-get-published letter to the editor:
John Ivison makes a good point when he says that, “Canadians are not willing to tolerate the rule […]
Speaking of navigating between traditional ideologies, here’s an interesting looking documentary called Gay Republicans. (hat tip: gaypatriot)
Earlier today I ran across the centrist coalition. Like many, I consider myself a centrist not because I lack strongly held values, but because I do. I can’t truck with the standard slate of ideas of today’s “left”, “right”, “top” of “bottom”. Accordingly the Centrist Coalition believes that strong leadership is composed […]
David Adesnik notes that many pundits who opposed the war in Iraq are now barely registering happiness over the prospect of more freedom in Lebanon. Particularly noting these Kissingerian quotes from Matt Yglesias.
There’s no really clear sense in which the Syrian sphere of influence in Lebanon is bad for the United States of America. […]
Michael Young at Reason, who was in Beirut when the protests started, weighs in on the recent events in Lebanon. The interesting part about this piece is the open questioning about how libertarianism reconciles the current events against its pre-dispositions.
Like Ronald Reagan in Eastern Europe, Bush has shown in the Middle East that […]