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$3 MILLION SPENT BY ONTARIO ON LEGO FOR ROBOTS IS HARDLY A SERIOUS MATTER TOCRITICIZE WHEN SO MUCH ELSE IS WRONG IN OUR SCHOOLS

 

18 ALLEGED MILITANTS KILLED BY AMERICAN MISSILE IN PAKISTAN – GEORGE ORWELL WOULD HAVE OFFERED A BITTER LAUGH

 

A COLUMN ASSERTING THAT JESUS WOULDN’T VOTE FOR BRITAIN’S BNP

A COLUMN EXPLAINING WHY AMERICAN-ISRAELI RELATIONS HAVE GONE SOUR – SO WHO NEEDS AN EXPLANATION?

 

A COLUMNIST SAYS IGNATIEFF IS A MASTER OF DELIVERY BUT NO ONE IS LISTENING – HOW WRONG THE COLUMNIST IS – THE COMING HELL OF A HARPER MAJORITY

 

A COLUMNIST WRITES THAT OBAMA MAY INSPIRE BUT SARAH PALIN CONNECTS

ANDREW PORTER WRITES THAT A “PARANOID” GADDAFI HIDES IN HOSPITALS – THE LIBYAN MISSION HAS BECOME BRUTALLY GROTESQUE

 

A FALSE ARGUMENT ABOUT SUPPORTING SEPARATISM USED TO DEFEND ENDING CANADA’S PUBLIC SUPPORT OF POLITICAL PARTIES

 

A FITTING RESPONSE TO A PREVIOUS BIZARRE COLUMN BY ANTHONY JULIUS

A FOOLISH GENERAL COMPARES “ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE” WITH NATO AND AFGHANISTAN

 

A FORMER GUARD WRITES OF GUANTANAMO BUT SADLY MAKES THE ERROR OF SAYING IT IS AGAINST WHAT AMERICA STANDS FOR

 

A FORMER RALPH KLEIN ASSOCIATE ARGUES AGAINST RE-ENACTMENT OF THE BATTLE OF THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM

 

A GROUP OF BRITISH DOCTORS QUESTIONS THE FINDING AROUND DOCTOR KELLY’S DEATH – AND WHO BENEFITED?

 

A JOURNALIST WRITES ABOUT WHAT THE F-35 BRINGS TO THE FIGHT – MISSING THE POINT THAT THIS IS LIKE A RESIDENT OF GEORGIA BUYING A DELUXE SNOW-BLOWER AND MISSING TOO HOW WARS START

 

A POLL SHOWING WHAT A QUARTER OF AMERICANS BELIEVE MEANS PRETTY CLOSE TO NOTHING

 

A POLL SHOWING WHAT A QUARTER OF AMERICANS BELIEVE MEANS PRETTY CLOSE TO NOTHING

 

A POOR INTERVIEWER ON A GREAT SHOW – PLEASE NOT MORE DUMBING-DOWN AT CBC – THE ABSURD BUSINESS OF TYPING FACILITATORS

 

A RIDICULOUS EDITORIAL ON CANADA IN AFGHANISTAN – AND A COMMENTER REVEALS JUST HOW ARROGANT AND UNINFORMED AMERICANS CAN BE

 

A RUBBISH COLUMN ABOUT EDUCATION IN AFGHANISTAN

A SILLY COLUMN ATTRIBUTING AFRICA’S PROBLEMS IN GETTING INVESTMENT TO NONSENSE ABOUT THE DARK CONTINENT

 

A STUDY WHICH SHOWS THOSE WHO DON’T ENJOY READING BY FIFTEEN ARE UNLIKELY TO SUCCEED

 

A SUGGESTION OF NO COALITION BUT UNITING CANADA’S LEFT AND CENTER PARTIES IN EXPECTATION OF AN ELECTION

 

A WRITER ASKS WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR CHILDREN WITH RITALIN? THE ANSWER: HELPING THEM WHERE IT IS PROPERLY PRESCRIBED

 

A WRITER SAYS AMERICANS ARE NOT STUPID BUT ANGRY FOR MID-TERM ELECTIONS : I BEG TO DIFFER

 

ACADEMICS WORKING LIKE ACTORS IN TV ADS WEARING WHITE COATS POSING AS DOCTORS – THE CASE OF AURAL BRAUN ON RUSSIA AND IRAN AND TURKEY

 

AFGANISTAN AND WHY CANADA IS THERE AND RICK HILLIER A NAIVE AND WHINING GENERAL

 

AFGANISTAN IS CHRETIEN’S LEGACY? TWISTED LOGIC FROM A MAN WITH LITTLE CREDIBILITY

 

AFGHANISTAN – JUST WHAT IS IT THAT CANADA IS SUPPOSED TO SEE THROUGH? IN TRUTH AFGHANISTAN IS A FOOL’S MISSION

 

AFGHANISTAN AND REFLECTIONS ON A PBS FRONTLINE DOCUMENTARY

AFGHANISTAN IS NOW OBAMA’S WAR

AFGHANISTAN OBAMA AND DITHERING – THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ON THE BACK OF A DECENT MAN

 

AFGHANISTAN PRISON BREAK SHOWS GAP IN INTELLIGENCE ACCORDING TO CANADA’S JOHN MANLEY

 

AFGHANISTAN PRISONERS: A SHOCKING LACK OF MORAL SERIOUSNESS CHARGES MARGARET WENTE IN A COLUMN WITH A SHOCKING LACK OF MORAL SERIOUSNESS

AFGHANISTAN: ITS TRUE MEANING AND WHY CANADIANS ARE THERE

AFGHANISTAN’S KARZAI DECLARED WINNER OF ELECTION – NOW THERE’S A CAUSE TO FIGHT FOR

 

AFGHANISTAN’S PROSPECTS – SURELY AN OXYMORON EXPRESSION

AFRICA’S CENTURY? ONLY THE DREARY COMEDY TEAM OF GELDOF AND BONO BELIEVES THAT

ALBERTA BOOM MEANS FEWER FINISH SCHOOL

ALVIN CURLING’S HOPELESS VIEWS ON BLACK CRIME IN TORONTO

AMBIGUITY IN ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATUS? ONLY IN THE MIND OF COLUMNIST PATRICK MARTIN

AMERICA AND ITS ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND WHY NOTHING WE CAN SAY WILL STOP THIS BLIND COLOSSUS FROM STUMBLING AND FALLING

AMERICA IS “LOSING” THE WESTERN WORLD?

AMERICA IS NOW ASKING CANADIAN TROOPS TO STAY IN AFGHANISTAN BEYOND THEIR AGREED DEPARTURE IN 2011

AMERICA JOINS THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WORLD ALLOWING GAYS TO SERVE ITS MILITARY – BUT HERE IS A NEW FREEDOM WITH A HITCH

 

AMERICA: DIMINISHED AND PARALYZED AT VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL GATHERINGS

 

AMERICA’S BLOWHARD SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT GATES SAYS NATO IS IN TROUBLE BECAUSE OF ITS MEMBERS’ PENNY-PINCHING AND LACK OF POLITICAL WILL

 

ANTI-GADDAFI FORCES RECOGNIZED BY CANADA’S HARPER GOVERNMENT AS LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT OF LIBYA

 

AMERICA’S CRIMINALLY STUPID WAR ON DRUGS IS JUST ONE PART OF A LARGER PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR

 

AMERICA’S FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL INSANITY: NO ONE SAYS WHAT NEEDS SAYING AND NO ONE DOES WHAT NEEDS DOING

 

AMERICA’S FIRST CERTIFIED MORON PRESIDENT APPOINTS HEAD OF HIS “ACTION-ORIENTED” THINK TANK

 

AMERICA’S GHASTLY GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL CALLS FOR MANY MORE TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN

 

AMERICA’S GHASTLY USE OF ASSASSINATION DRONES AND THE COLOSSALLY DISHONEST WORD “INSURGENTS”

 

AMERICA’S PAST CLOSE RELATIONS WITH GERMANY

AMERICA’S PERILOUS FINANCIAL SITUATION

AMERICA’S VETO OF THE U.N. RESOLUTION ADDRESSING ISRAEL’S CONSTANT CREATION OF SETTLEMENTS WHICH ARE JUST ANOTHER TERM FOR THEFT OF OTHERS’ PROPERTY

 

AMERICAN ELECTORAL DISTRICTS WITH MORE MEN ELECT WOMEN

AMERICAN FALLACIES IN AFGHANISTAN

AMERICAN HEATHCARE REFORM AND THE QUESTION WHETHER AMERICA CAN GOVERN ITSELF

 

AMERICAN JET JOCKEYS KILL 90 CIVILIANS ATTACKING HIJACKED FUEL TRUCK

AMERICAN SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT GATES MEETS CANADA’S PETER MACKAY TO TOUT F-35 PURCHASE PLANS – THE SAD TRUTH ABOUT THE F-35 AND PETER MACKAY

 

AMERICAN SENATE MAY INVESTIGATE LOCKERBIE RELEASE – YES, THE AMERICAN SENATE THAT TUSSAUD’S WAX TABLEAU OF POLITICAL HORRORS

 

AN AMERICAN THINK-TANK HACK ON PEOPLE PROJECTING THEIR HOPES ONTO OBAMA

AN EDITORIAL CASTIGATING THE POSSIBLE RETURN OF “POLARIZING” ARISTIDE TO HAITI

 

AN EDITORIAL SAYING THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA SHOULD PERMIT THE FOOD AND NOT THE GUNS – A PRETENSE OF FAIRNESS WHICH IS EITHER DISHONEST OR UNINFORMED

 

AN EDITORIAL SPEAKING AGAINST IRAN’S BEING INCLUDED ON A COMMITTE CONCERNED WITH WOMEN’S RIGHTS: MORE PROPAGANDA TO DEMONIZE 80 MILLION PEOPLE

 

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE: CANADA’S CONSERVATIVES PUT ON A NEW VERSION OF THE PLAY ATTACKING A MAN OF GENUINE CHARACTER – ALSO THE BANALITY OF EVIL

 

AN IGNORANT COLUMNIST TERMS CRITICS OF THE STORY OF BIN LADEN’S ASSASSINATION PARANOID – JOURNALISM AT ITS LOWEST SERVING ONLY POWERFUL INTERESTS

 

AN INAPPROPRIATE DEFENSE OF SARAH KRAMER AT ONTARIO’S E-HEALTH

AN OBAMA DOCTRINE?

 

AN UNINFORMED COLUMNIST WRITES OF CHINA’S OLYMPIC SUCCESS BEING ON THE BACKS OF GIRLS

 

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW NOT TO WRITE A BOOK REVIEW – THIS ONE BY CHARLES MOORE ON ANDREW MARR

 

ANOTHER MUNK DEBATE MONEY-RAISING CIRCUS: THIS ONE INCLUDES THE WORLD’S GREATEST UNCHARGED WAR CRIMINAL HENRY KISSINGER BLUBBERING ABOUT CHINA

 

A NEW PHONY LEAK ABOUT OSAMA BIN LADEN – THIS ONE QUOTING HIM ABOUT NEED FOR A NEW ORGANIZATIONAL NAME – FROM THE VERY FOLKS WHO RUN A PERPETUAL WAR AND CLAIM TO HAVE MURDERED HIM

 

ANOTHER PATHETIC COLUMN ON HISTORY’S SEEING BUSH AS LARGER THAN WE DO TODAY

 

ANSWERS TO SOME ILLOGICAL RESPONSES TO CRITICISMS OF AMERICA AROUND LOCKERBIE RELEASE AND THE CAUSES OF 9/11

ARE THE BRITISH ROYALS WORTH WHAT THEY COST?

ARE THE VANCOUVER OLYMPICS TO BE A FINANCIAL DISASTER OR NOT? AND OTHER OLYMPIC MATTERS

 

ART AND SUBSIDY

ATTACKING THE JUDGMENT OF JUDGES – MINISTER JASON KENNEY APING THE REPUBLICAN RIGHT – A CLEAR DANGER TO LAW AND ORDER AND CIVIL DEMOCRACY IN CANADA

 

BABY DOC IN HAITI – THE GLOBE’S MOST PUFFED-UP EDITORIAL OF THE YEAR ON WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH HIM

 

BACK CHANNEL TALKS ADVOCATED FOR ISRAEL AND PALESTINE – A WASTE OF WORDS

BELIEF THAT THE EARTH WAS FLAT: THE OLDEST NONSENSE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS

BIN LADEN’S ASSASSINATION – ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ON SHOOTING AN UNARMED FUGITIVE – THE GRAND INQUISITOR TALKS WITH JESUS – WHAT A DARK THING AMERICA HAS BECOME

 

BIN LADEN’S ASSASSINATION – JUST COLD-BLOODED MURDER – AMERICA IS BUILDING A LAWLESS WORLD – THE NIGHTMARE EXAMPLE OF ISRAEL – IF YOU WANT THE PROTECTION OF LAW YOU MUST OBEY IT

 

BLUBBERING BY MICHAEL VALPY ABOUT THE PROUD RETURN OF WARRIOR CULTURE TO CANADA

 

BORIS JOHNSON MAYOR OF LONDON CALLS BIN LADEN ASSASSINATION A DESERVED EXECUTION – A LACK OF LOGIC ARGUING FOR BARBARISM – MEANWHILE UN REPORT ON ISRAEL’S KILLING OF CHILDREN

 

BORIS JOHNSON’S SHABBY APPEAL OF NOT BETRAYING THE FALLEN IN AFGHANISTAN

BP ACCUSED OF “CARPET BOMBING” THE GULF WITH DISPERSANTS – HERE IS THE ULTIMATE INSENSIVITY IN LANGUAGE AND INSANITY OF PERSPECTIVE

BRITAIN’S RELATIONSHIP TO THE U.S.

BRITISH APOLOGIST FOR BLOODSHED, CON COUGHLIN, SAYS ISRAEL IS A DIFFICULT ALLY BUT ITS LEADERS ARE HARDLY WAR CRIMINALS

 

BRITISH FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN “UNDERMINED AT HOME”? SOUNDS LIKE HITLER’S “STAB IN THE BACK”

 

BRITISH WRITER ASKS IF THERE IS NO WAR ON TERROR WHY ARE OUR BOYS DYING?

BUSH HANDLING RETIREMENT? HARDLY A FIT SUBJECT ABOUT WHICH TO WRITE A STORY

 

BUSH REPORTED TO HAVE APPROVED ATTACKS BY AMERICAN GROUND TROOPS IN PAKISTAN

 

CAN AMERICA RISE AGAIN? ASKS A COLUMNIST – THE REAL QUESTION IS: CAN AMERICA GOVERN ITSELF?

CANADA WILL NOT ABANDON AFGHANISTAN DECLARES OUR OWN COLONEL BLIMP FROM HIS MEN’S CLUB ARMCHAIR

 

CANADA’S ELECTION: A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE? THAT DOESN’T BEGIN TO DESCRIBE THE SITUATION

 

CANADA’S HARPER CREDITS A PHONY FIGHT AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM TO EXCUSE HIS GOVERNMENT’S ABJECT FAILURE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS AT THE U.N.

 

CANADA’S JACK LAYTON CRITICIZED FOR NOT COSTING PLATFORM AS THOUGH ANYTHING IS COSTED IN GOVERNMENT – PLUS MORE ON THE IDIOTIC MANTRA ABOUT STEALING THE ELECTION WITH A COALITION

 

CANADA’S JOHN MANLEY CLAIMS WE OWE THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN SOMETHING FOR BRAVELY VOTING

CANADA’S MISSION IS FAILING IN AFGHANISTAN

CANADA’S PETER MACKAY, RIGHT DISHONORABLE GENTLEMAN, TO WED CTV EXECUTIVE

 

CANADA’S POLITICAL IMPASSE AND THE FUTURE OF THE LIBERAL PARTY

CANADA’S RCMP WATCHDOG ON POLICE INVESTIGATING THEMSELVES

CANADA’S REX MURPHY ON JAMES HANSEN AND GLOBAL WARMING – ALSO COMMENTS ON QUOTING CATO INSTITUTE

 

CANADIAN SENATE REFORM: HARPER’S DISHONEST APPROACH TO IMPROVING DEMOCRACY – ANALYSIS OF FACTS – REFERENDUMS

 

CANADIANS PLAN FAKE AFGHAN-ATTACK STUNT IN WASHINGTON TO REMIND AMERICANS OF CANADA’S ROLE

 

CBC EXECUTIVE LEAVES UNDER DARK CLOUD – MORE ON CBC DESCENDING INTO DUMBNESS

CBC NEWS AND HOW THOUGHTFUL PEOPLE LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE TRUTH IN WORLD AFFAIRS

 

CELEBRATING ONLY THE EXCEPTIONAL IN SPORTS? WHERE THAT ATTITUDE TAKES US

CHANGING THE NATURE OF REMEMBRANCE DAY

CHAVEZ PROPS UP UNSAVOURY CHARACTERS SAYS THINK-TANK HACK ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA – ONCE AGAIN THE FAILURE OF CONVENTIONAL NEWS IN PUBLISHING RUBBISH

 

CHINA AND THE FAILURE OF OLYMPIC BOYCOTT EFFORTS

CHINA’S LOCK-DOWN OF TIBET IS TELLING?

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS BLUBBERING ABOUT AMERICANS NO LONGER ADMIRING THE MOTHER OF PARLIAMENTS IN VIEW OF EXPENSES SCANDAL

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, ESTABLISHMENT DARLING, ATTACKS GORE VIDAL – AND GRAHAM GREENE ON WHAT A WRITER’S RESPONSIBILITY IS – AND 9/11 FACTS

CLINTON AND AHMADINEJAD AT THE UNITED NATIONS

CLIVE CROOK CAPTURES THE ECONOMIC ABSURDITY OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT BUDGETS – AND AMERICA’S GROTESQUE MILITARY EXPENDITURE

CLIVE CROOK DISPARAGES J. K. GALBRAITH’S ARROGANCE – AND RIGHTLY SO

CLIVE CROOK OF FINANCIAL TIMES SAYS IT’S AMERICAN POLITICS AS USUAL AFTER ARIZONA MASSACRE – BUT WHAT ELSE COULD YOU EXPECT?

 

COFFIN CEREMONIES: THEY DIE IN AFGHANISTAN AND WE TALK ABOUT WEATHER

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND OLIVER KAMM

COLUMNIST ASKS WHY OBAMA HAS DONE NOTHING BUT PRESSURE ISRAEL OVER SETTLEMENTS FOR TWO YEARS – WORDS SURELY FROM CLOUDCUCKOOLAND

 

COMEDIENNE WANDA SYKES TELLS A FUNNY JOKE ABOUT RUSH LIMBAUGH AND UNBELIEVABLY PEOPLE RUSH TO HIS DEFENSE AND ATTACK HER

COMMENTS ON A SERIES ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS AND HOW IT IS TREATED

COMPARISONS TO NAZI GERMANY ARE EXCESSIVE BUT ISRAEL’S WAY OF THINKING HAS CERTAIN PARALLELS AT WHICH MANY ARE HORRIFIED

CONCERNING OBAMA’S SHIFTS IN VIEW

CONSERVATIVE ATTACK ADS: A POX ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES

CONSERVATIVE JUNIOR MINISTER HELENA GUERGIS’S UGLY AIRPORT MELT-DOWN AND THE PARTY’S PATHETIC POOL OF MINISTERIAL MATERIAL

CONSERVATIVE MINISTER LISA RAITT’S ABSURD APOLOGY

CONSPIRACIES AND 9/11 AND CHARLIE BROOKER’S SHABBY ARTICLE

CONTROVERSY AND PREJUDICE OVER THE NIQAB – AND THE TRUTH ABOUT ISRAEL’S GROSSLY INEFFICIENT ECONOMY IN RESPONSE TO AN IGNORANT COMMENT

CORRECTING SOME SKEWED VIEWS ON HU’S VISIT TO THE U.S. – COMPARISONS THAT MAKE CHINA A MODEL WORLD CITIZEN AND THE U.S. ITS OPPOSITE

 

CRISPIN BLACK ON BRAVE AND HONORABLE SOLDIERS BENFITING US ALL – AND THEN THERE’S WILL POWER

 

CRITICISM OF THE LIBERAL STRATEGY – MORE ON COALITION – TAX RISES – SERVICE CUTS – HEALTH CARE AS COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE – AMERICA’S COMING ECONOMIC TSUNAMI

 

CUBA: MEMORIES OF ELIAN AND THE MAYOR OF MIAMI STILL PLAYING NASTY POLITICAL GAMES

DAVID CAMERON BRAVELY REJECTS BUSH’S USE OF TORTURE – JANET DALEY DEFENDS WHAT CANNOT BE DEFENDED – PLUS A SUMMARY OF BUSH’S SHABBY CHARACTER

DAVID FRUM FIRED FROM THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE

DEMOCRATS AND LIBERALS IN AMERICA NEED TO BE MORE RESPECTFUL?

DETROIT “BOMBER” A WAKE-UP CALL ABOUT YEMEN

DID HARPER’S GOVERNMENT DRAG ITS FEET ON MUBARAK? OF COURSE AND THE REASON IS CLEAR ENOUGH

 

DISPROPORTIONATE FORCE FEEDS ANTI-ISRAEL PROPAGANDA? DISPROPORTIONATE? PROPAGANDA? TROJAN VIRUSES WRAPPED IN A SEEMINGLY HARMLESS DOWNLOAD

DO AMERICANS SHARE OBAMA’S DREAM? A QUESTION I REGARD AS NAIVE

DRONE ATTACKS – A WRITER SAYS THEY ARE LEGAL BUT ASKS IF THEY ARE MORAL? WHERE THIS BEHAVIOR THREATENS TO TAKE US

 

DYING “LOCKERBIE BOMBER” IS NOT RELEASED OWING TO AMERICAN PRESSURE

EDITORIAL ASSERTS JULIAN ASSANGE WANTS A WORLD WITHOUT SECRETS AND WOULDN’T THAT BE TERRIBLE? A PHONY ARGUMENT AGAINST DEMOCRACY

 

EDITORIAL SAYS EGYPT’S MUBARAK DOESN’T GET IT – BUT WHOSE CREATURE IS MUBARAK ? – THE UNITED STATES’ AND ISRAEL’S DARK ROLES IN EGYPT

 

EDUCATION STUDY SPENDS TIME AND MONEY ON THE OBVIOUS: POOR MASTERY OF MATH IN LOWER GRADES MEANS POOR SUCCESS IN HIGHER GRADES – EDUCATION’S FAILURE

 

EGYPT AND AUTHORITARIANISM AND OBAMA AND INSTITIONALIZED HYPOCRISY

ELECTION ISSUES IGNORED IN IMAGE CONTEST

ENGLAND’S RABBI LERNER SPEAKS OUT ON GAZA AND AN ATTEMPT TO POLITELY DISCREDIT HIM BASED ON HIS 9/11 BELIEFS

 

FAR OVER-GENERALIZED STUFF ABOUT HIGHER EDUCATION BORDERING ON NONSENSE – SOME OBSERVATIONS ON INVESTMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL AND THE SITUATION IN CHINA

 

FEARS OVER CHINA DEVELOPING A MISSILE CAPABLE OF SINKING AIRCRAFT CARRIERS – MORE ON CHINA’S NEW WEAPONS – THE WELCOME END OF AMERICAN HEGEMONY

 

FORECASTING THE RESULTS OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND THE BIG UNKNOWN THIS YEAR (2008)

FORGET THE GIMMICKS ON EARTH DAY? INDEED ALL OF THEM – THERE REALLY IS ONLY ONE GREEN PROBLEM

 

FORMER ASSOCIATE MAI PEDERSON EXPLAINS WHY SHE IS CERTAIN BRITAIN’S DR.KELLY WAS MURDERED IN THE RUN-UP TO THE IRAQ INVASION

 

FOURTH OF JULY NONSENSE ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON AND AMERICA’S FOUNDING

 

FRANCE’S BENIGHTED BAN OF THE NIQAB AND THE ARREST TODAY OF TWO WOMEN FOR THE TERRIBLE CRIME OF WEARING IT – ANTI-MUSLIM PREJUDICE IS WIDE – CHRISTIANITY’S BLOODY HISTORY

 

FRANCE’S NEW LAW ON WOMEN COVERING THEIR FACES

FROM THE PEN OF A FATUOUS ACADEMIC: WE SHOULD SET OBJECTIVES FOR AFGHANISTAN – NOT DEPART IN DEFEAT

 

FRUM TAKES ON LIMBAUGH BUT IS ANYTHING BUT A HERO HIMSELF

FUNDAMENTALISTS ON HEAVEN

FURTHER STILL TO JEFFREY SIMPSON ON HARPER’S REACTION TO EVENTS IN EGYPT – MORE ON HARPER’S RIDICULOUS AND NASTY TOOTHPASTE SPEECH

 

FURTHER TO AMERICA’S PRIMITIVE POLITICS AFTER THE ARIZONA MASSACRE – PRIZE EXAMPLE OF A MEANINGLESS COMMENT A LA SARAH PALIN

 

FURTHER TO IRAN SANCTIONS: THE INSANE IDEA OF ISRAEL ATTACKING IRAN – THE CONSEQUENCES ARE INCALCULABLE

FURTHER TO NOISES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

GANG OF CIA THUGS TORTURE THEIR LAST VICTIM – EIGHT KILLED BY BOMB NEAR PAKISTAN

GAY MARRIAGE AND DICK CHENEY?

GAY RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

GAZA HUMANITARIAN AID MAKES IT TO SHORE – IN THE FORM OF BONE FRAGMENTS AND POOLS OF BLOOD

GEORGE BUSH PUT DEMOCRACY ON A PEDESTAL? PLUS THE MEANING OF DEMOCRATIC VALUES – WHY ISRAEL CANNOT MEANINGFULLY BE CALLED A DEMOCRACY

 

GEORGE GALLOWAY AT MCMASTER UNIVERSITY

 

GLOBAL WARMING AND G-8 BREAKTHROUGH

GOOGLE AND CHINA AND BEING “SOFT ON CHINA”

GRAVE STUFF ABOUT CHINA’S SUBSTITUTING A PRETTIER GIRL FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES’ OPENING CEREMONIES – DOES THE SILLINESS NEVER STOP?

 

GUNS AND AMERICA

HAITI: IS IT HOPELESS?

HAITI’S TRAGEDY AND AMERICA

HAMAS IS STILL THE PROBLEM? I DON’T THINK SO

HARPER TELLS CANADIAN JEWISH CONGRESS HE WILL LEGISLATE TO ALLOW SUITS IN CANADIAN COURTS BY VICTIMS OF TERROR: A DANGEROUS ANTI-DEMOCRATIC PROPOSAL

 

HARPER’S APPOINTMENT OF PETER KENT AS MINISTER OF THE ENVIRONMENT – A PRETEND MINISTER FOR A PRETEND DEPARTMENT

 

HARPER’S EFFORTS TO “HARMONIZE” CANADA’S BORDER WITH THE UNITED STATES: WHEN HARMONY IS NOT A PLEASANT THING

 

HARPER’S HANDSHAKE WITH THE DEVIL: NETANYAHU COMING TO CANADA FOR VALIDATION

HARPER’S IDEALOGUES GET UP AND LEAVE WHEN AHMEDINEJAD SPEAKS AT THE UNITED NATIONS

HARPER’S LEGACY – AND THE COLUMN ISN’T A JOKE

HARPER’S SHABBY GOVERNMENT AND THE TERRIBLE ORDEAL OF SUAAD HAGI MOHAMUD

HARPER’S SPEECH ABOUT EGYPT : REGRET THAT THE TOOTHPASTE CAN’T BE PUT BACK IN THE TUBE – SURELY A MEMORABLY BIZARRE STATEMENT OF DEMOCRATIC VALUES

HATE AND STUPIDITY ARE NOT NEW TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

HATE SPEECH

HENRY VIII AND THE THEORY THAT HIS WOUNDS CAUSED HIS TYRANT BEHAVIOR

HERE’S TO AN UNGRACIOUS AND INACCURATE OLIVER KAMM

HILLARY CLINTON “CLARIFIES” HER COMMENTS ON ISRAEL’S SETTLEMENT – JUST ONE SAD PART OF OBAMA’S ALREADY-FAILED NEW MIDEAST POLICY

 

HILLARY CLINTON “TOUGH AND TIRELESS” IN ARGENTINA

HILLARY CLINTON AS SECRETARY OF STATE A GOOD IDEA?

HILLARY SPEAKS AT AIPAC – ISRAEL’S RECENT SHAMEFUL BEHAVIOR – THE SILLINESS OF BIBLICAL CLAIMS TO GREATER ISRAEL

HITLER AND WINTER AND THE INVASION OF RUSSIA

HITLER MAD? THAT’S THE EASY WAY OUT

HORRIBLE NEW LAWS IN AFGHANISTAN IN ONE ODD WAY DO REPRESENT PROGRESS

HOW AMERICANS REACT TO CRITICISM OF THEIR ELECTIONS

HOW FAR TO GO IN PROSECUTING THE CIA OVER YEARS OF TORTURE?

HOW NOT TO WRITE A BOOK REVIEW: LAURA PENNY’S INTELLECTUALLY IMPOVERISHED REVIEW OF CHRIS HEDGES’ EMPIRE OF ILLUSION

HOW SHOULD WE HANDLE IRAN?

IGGYMANIA OR IGGYPHOBIA ?

IGNATIEFF AND HIS PURPOSE IN RETURNING TO CANADA

IGNATIEFF KEEPING HIS POLICY IDEAS CLOSE TO THE VEST?

IGNATIEFF RAISES HIS WEAK VOICE ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY HARPER IS DELIBERATING USING UP TIME IN REACHING AN AGREEMENT OVER PAPERS ON ABUSE OF DETAINEES

IGNATIEFF: CAN YOU TRUST THIS GUY?

 

IGNATIEFF’S “LIBERAL VISION” SPEECH – VISIONS IN GENERAL ARE OFTEN CLICHES OR DELUSIONS – IGNATIEFF MAKES ONE MORE INEPT ATTEMPT TO CONVINCE US HE IS NOT A POLITICAL LIABILITY

 

IGNATIEFF’S HOPELESS SHORTCOMINGS AS LEADER OF THE LIBERAL PARTY

IGNATIEFF’S MISSING THREE DECADES NOT EVEN THE GREATEST THING HE IS MISSING

IN PRAISE OF NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS?

IQALUIT’S MEAN STREETS: A REPORT ON SOME SAD CONDITIONS OF NORTHERN YOUNG PEOPLE

IRAN’S REVOLUTION: ITS VIOLENCE IS CHARACTERISTIC OF ALL TRUE REVOLUTIONS AND THE ROLE OF AMERICAN POLCY IN CREATING THIS ONE

IRAQI VETERANS AND THEIR AD ABOUT “FINISHING THE JOB”

IS A ONE-STATE SOLUTION POSSIBLE?

IS DONALD TRUMP THE LEADER AMERICA DESERVES? YES BUT NOT FOR THE REASONS YOU MIGHT EXPECT

 

IS FOREIGN AID WORKING?

IS INTELLIGENCE HERITABLE?

IS IT OKAY FOR AMERICA TO MURDER ITS ENEMIES? A DAMNABLE QUESTION TO ASK IN A FREE SOCIETY

 

IS OBAMA LOSING THE MODERATE MUSLIMS? A SUMMARY OF WHAT THINGS LOOK LIKE FROM WESTERN ASIA

 

IS OBAMA SIMPLY RE-BRANDING BUSH POLICIES?

IS STEPHEN HARPER’S SANITY CRUMBLING? CANADA’S AFGHANISTAN COMMITMENT – PLUS WORDS ON CANADIANS VS AMERICANS IN PRINCIPLES AND HANDLING TRUTH

IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY GOING UNDER?

IS TIME ON ISRAEL’S SIDE?

ISRAEL AND HAVING BEEN THERE 3000 YEARS – A COMMENT TO AN EDITORIAL SAYING THE PEACE TALKS SHOULDN’T BE BULLDOZED OVER SETTLEMENTS

 

ISRAEL AND MIDEST PEACE AND IRAN

ISRAEL AND THE ISSUE OF A ONE- OR TWO-STATE SOLUTION

ISRAEL REFUSES TO ACCEPT AN INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF ITS ATTACK ON A HUMANITARIAN CONVOY

 

ISRAEL WARNS JOURNALISTS NOT TO GO ON GAZA FLOTILA II – SAYS THEY MAY LOSE PRIVILEGES FOR BREAKING LAW – BUT THE UNSAID TRUTH

 

ISRAEL’S FEAR AND LOATHING OF THE NEW U.S. RELATIONSHIP

ISRAEL’S TRAGEDY IS ITS POLITICIANS: A FALSE THESIS

ISRAELI YOSSI KLEIN HELEVI OFFERS POSSIBLY THE WORST PROPAGANDA I HAVE READ ON MUBARAK AND OBAMA: ISRAELIS CAN’T TRUST AMERICA AND IT’S OBAMA’S FAULT

IT IS ALMOST MEANINGLESS TO APPLY THE WESTERN LANGUAGE OF RIGHTS TO MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD INCLUDING AFGHANISTAN

JEFFERSON AND THE CATO INSTITUTE

JEFFERSON AS AUTHOR OF DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: ONLY PARTLY RIGHT – MORE ABOUT JEFFERSON TOO

JEFFREY SIMPSON CORRECTLY WRITES THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE HUGGED MR. COLVIN INSTEAD OF DEMONIZING HIM – SIMPLY BAD INSTINCTS

JEFFREY SIMPSON SPEAKS OF OLYMPIC TORCH MEMORIES – MINE AREN’T QUITE SO SENTIMENTAL

JOHN UPDIKE

JOURNALIST CALLS FOR BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO SHOW SOME TOUGHNESS OVER ISRAEL’S SETTLEMENTS

 

JUDGE GOLDSTONE IS WRONGLY CLAIMED TO HAVE RETRACTED THE TRUTHS OF HIS GAZA-INVASION REPORT AND ISRAEL ARROGANTLY DEMANDS THE UN TRASH THE REPORT

 

LAME PROPAGANDA ABOUT RUSSIA FROM THE REPRESENTIVE OF AN OLD CIA-FUNDED ORGANIZATION

LAWRENCE MARTIN COMMENTS ON HARPER AND OBAMA COOPERATING UNEXPECTEDLY WELL ON MANY THINGS INCLUDING BORDER MATTERS

 

LAWRENCE MARTIN ON THE BIZARRE NOTION WE SHOULD CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY BECAUSE THERE IS A CANADIAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE

 

LAWRENCE MARTIN SAYS THE LIBERALS ARE GOING TO LET IGNATIEFF BE HIMSELF

LEAK SUGGESTS CERN HAS DISCOVERED THE HIGGS BOSON

 

LEONARD SAX AND MORE ON SEGREGATED EDUCATION AND THE ENTIRE MISDIRECTION OF “PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS”

LIBERAL PARTY’S STRANGE DEATH ? PERHAPS BUT THERE IS AN ARC OF POWER FOR ALL PARTIES FAMILIES AND EMPIRES

LIBERTY NOT AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN THE LEFT AND RIGHT?

LIPSTICK ON A PIG

MACCAIN MAN CHARLIE BLACK AND HIS COMMENTS ON THE HELPFULNESS OF ANOTHER TERRORIST INCIDENT

 

MALCOLM X

MARCUS GEE TELLS US WHAT AMERICANS – ALL THREE HUNDRED MILLION – ARE FIXATED BY: NOT THE FINANCIAL MESS – NOT AMERICAN TROOPS ABROAD – BUT TERROR

 

MARGARET ATWOOD ASKS WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY YOU WANT – COMPARISON OF POLICE AT TWO DEMONSTRATIONS

MARGARET WENTE HALLUCINATES ABOUT THE POSSIBLE STONING OF A WOMAN IN IRAN – OR HOW TO IGNORE SCREAMING REALITIES FOR A PROPAGANDA POINT

MARGARET WENTE HITS JOURNALISTIC BOTTOM WITH HER CANCUN CONFERENCE MUTTERINGS: SAYING THINGS SHE WASN’T THERE TO SEE

MASS MURDER BY BUZZ-CUT THUGS PLAYING COMPUTER GAMES

MERIT PAY FOR TEACHERS AGAIN – A WASTE OF BREATH TO DISCUSS – EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT NEEDS GREAT CHANGES

 

MICHAEL IGNATIEFF AND STEPHEN HARPER ONE OF CANADA’S “MEMORABLE DUETS” ?

MICHAEL IGNATIEFFF WHINES AND MAKES EXCUSES FOR HIS COMPLETE FAILURE AS A POLITICAL LEADER – THE “ISSUE” OF EX-PATS RETURNING TO CANADA

 

MICHAELLE JEAN UNESCO SPECIAL ENVOY TO HAITI TELLS DONORS TO REMEMBER THEIR PLEDGES

MICHELLE OBAMA

MODERN CONSERVATIVES’ FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY – NOTE ON AMERICAN DECLINE – AND A FURTHER NOTE ON SARAH PALIN

MORE ABSURD WORDS FROM HILLARY CLINTON: 24 NATIONS SEND 290 TROOPS EACH FOR A WORLD CRISIS?

MORE ANTI-MUSLIM GARBAGE IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

MORE ANTI-MUSLIM PREJUDICE – NOT TO BE TAKEN TOO SERIOUSLY COMING AS IT DOES FROM CHEESY POTBOILER NOVELIST SEBASTIAN FAULKS

MORE FIREPOWER FOR AFGHANISTAN AND A NAZI-LIKE ASCETIC GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL

MORE FLATULENCE FROM CANADA’S PRESTON MANNING: THIS TIME IT’S THE FUTURE ALBERTANS “DESERVE”

MORE GARBAGE ABOUT RUSSIA AND GEORGIA – THIS TIME WITH JUVENILE STUFF ABOUT THE NEED FOR A RED LINE

MORE HOT AIR ON THE WORKINGS OF PARLIAMENT FROM PRESTON MANNING

MORE MEANINGLESS ACADEMIC BLUBBER: THIS TIME ON HARPER’S PATHETIC SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE AGREEMENTS

MORE NEO-CON NONSENSE FROM DAVID BERCUSON – IGNATIEFF AND THE LIBERAL PARTY AND FOREIGN POLICY

MORE OLYMPIC NONSENSE: PRIDE IN SPORTS ACHIEVEMENT – BUT AT WHAT COST?

MORE ON BIN LADEN’S ASSASSINATION – THE NONSENCE OF AL-QAEDA WEB SITES MAKING ANNOUNCEMENTS – THE NONSENSE OF AL-QAEDA – BACKGROUND ON BIN LADEN

 

MORE ON COULTER AND THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA – IDEAS? WHAT IDEAS? SHE’S A SIDE SHOW PERFORMER OF HATE

MORE ON DEMOCRATS NEEDING TO BE RESPECTFUL

MORE ON FRANCE’S HORRIBLE NIQAB LAW – HERE AN UPPER-CLASS MUSLIM WOMAN WHO WANTS US TO JOIN THE MOB AND SUPPORT SARKOZY

 

MORE ON IRAN’S SECOND NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT PLANT – IRAN AGREES TO INSPECTION

MORE ON ISRAELIS THINK AMERICA CAN’T BE TRUSTED AND IT’S ALL OBAMA’S FAULT – WHEN IS ISRAEL GOING TO ACT AS A RESPONSIBLE STATE? PRICE OF HUBRIS

 

MORE ON NEIL REYNOLD’S NASTY PIECE OF PROPAGANDA ABOUT GEORGE BUSH AND DEMOCRACY INCLUDING SOMETHING ON HAMAS

 

MORE ON OBAMA’S SAD WORDS – CLIVE CROOK RIGHTLY SAYS THE ECONOMY ISN’T A MOON RACE – THOUGHTS ON PRODUCTIVITY AND COMPETITION

 

MORE ON OBAMA’S SAD WORDS ABOUT AMERICA – THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT OF OBAMA – DOES AMERICA EVEN NEED ELECTIONS? – CHANGE LIKELY ONLY WITH U.S. DECLINE

 

MORE ON THE KENNEDY CLAN AND THEIR DARK SECRETS IN RESPONSE TO A COLUMN ABOUT A TELEVISION MINI-SERIES

MORE ON THE SHAMEFUL FAILURE TO PROTECT AFGHAN PRISONERS FROM TORTURE: THE INCOMPETENCE AND DISHONESTY OF HARPER’S GOVERNMENT

MORE ON THE SILLY BUSINESS OF NEWSPAPER ENDORSEMENTS – AND MORE ON MICHAEL IGNATIEFF AS A POLITICIAN

 

MORE ON THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP PLUS COLD FUSION AND ANGELS

MORE ON THE TEA PARTY: THIS AN ARTICLE SO POORLY INFORMED IT SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED – BUT PERHAPS IT FITTINGLY SUMS THIS SILLY BUNCH

MORE ON MASSACHUSETTS

MORE SILLINESS ABOUT THE PRESS NOT LIKING IGNATIEFF BECAUSE HE IS AN AUTHOR – GOD, DO PEOPLE LIKE THIS HAVE EYES AND EARS?

MORE TIRESOME CRAP ON THE WAR ON TERROR

MORE TWISTED STUFF ON THE CONVICTION OF KHODORKOVSKY IN RUSSIA – NOW THE FAMILIAR AND UNWARRANTED ANTI-SEMITISM CHARGE

MORE WORDS ON ETHICS FROM CANADA’S MOST BORING SCHOLASTIC, MARGARET SOMERVILLE

MUSHARRAF’S RESIGNATION: NOTHING GOOD WILL COME OF IT

NATO AND AFGHANISTAN – MORE UNINFORMED COMMENTARY BY LEWIS MACKENZIE – COMMENT ON A COMMENT

NATO LEADERS PREACH TO KARZAI ABOUT CORRUPTION – A RIDICULOUS SPECTACLE WITH FRANCE’S CORRUPT SARKOZY PICTURED LECTURING KARZAI

 

NATO’S PURPOSE IN AFGHANISTAN – WHAT NATO ACTUALLY MEANS TODAY

NEED FOR LEGISLATION AGAINST PRIME MINISTERIAL ABUSE IN PARLIAMENT

NEO-CON TOM FLANAGAN CLAIMS HARPER IS “FIXING” CANADA’S SENATE STEP BY STEP

NETANYAHU AND THE AFTERMATH OF ISRAEL’S POINTED INSULT TO VISTING VICE-PRESIDENT BIDEN – WHERE ISRAEL’S SAVAGE BEHAVIOR IS TAKING US

NETANYAHU AND THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION: SOME HARD TRUTHS

NETANYAHU HAS SOFTENED HIS STANCE ON TWO STATES? I DON’T THINK SO

NETANYAHU’S VIOLENT NONSENSE ABOUT THE ROAD TO MIDDLE EAST PEACE BEING THROUGH TEHRAN

NEW “DRONE ATTACK” KILLS “AL QAEDA” – EVEN USING THAT PHRASE “DRONE ATTACK” HELPS HIDE EVIL TRUTH

NEW EDITION OF MARK TWAIN’S HUCKLEBERRY FINN EXPURGATES THE HATED WORD – A BAD SOLUTION TO A GENUINE PROBLEM – HUCKLEBERRY’S PLACE IN LITERATURE

NEW POLL SHOWS ONTARIO’S MCGUINTY IS BECOMING UNPOPULAR

 

NEW SANCTIONS IMPOSED ON IRAN

NEW YORK TIMES’ ASSERTION THAT CIA HAD ASSASSINATION PLAN AGAINST AL QAEDA BUT DID NOT IMPLEMENT IT

NEWLY DISCOVERED PORTRAIT: RALEIGH OR SHAKESPEARE?

NEWSPAPER JOURNALISTS WHO ATTACK THE INTERNET FOR ITS LACK OF AUTHORITY OR QUALITY ARE OFFERING BARELY DISGUISED PREJUDICES AND SPECIAL INTERESTS

NEWT GINGRICH AND SARAH PALIN AND THE EMPTINESS OF AMERICA’S RIGHT

NOAH RICHLER ON HARPER’S GOVERNMENT SENDING BACK AMERICAN DESERTERS

NOBEL-WINNING ECONOMIST PAUL KRUGMAN’S DANGEROUS THOUGHTS ABOUT CHINA – AND WHY AMERICA HAS NEVER BEEN A GENUINE FREE-TRADER

NOISES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: IS MURDER INCORPORATED PREPARING A NEW WAR?

NONSENSE BY THE POUND: ISRAEL TRIED TO NEGOTIATE PEACEFUL BOARDING? HAMAS THREATENS TO DESTROY ISRAEL? ISRAEL WAS WILLING TO LIFT BLOCKADE?

NORMAN SPECTOR MAKES SILLY CLAIMS ABOUT IGNATIEFF USING DUCEPPE

NORTH KOREA’S MISSILE TEST AND THE ASSERTION THAT THE COUNTRY DEFIED THE UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION AND THE NEED FOR AN INTERNATIONAL FRONT: IGNORING THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

OBAMA AND GUANTANAMO AND THE OMAR KHADR CASE

OBAMA AND THE AUDACITY OF HUBRIS FROM A COLUMNIST WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER

OBAMA AND THE GRIM SHADOW OF AMERICA’S TORTURE PRISONS – AND THE BRUTAL FACT ONLY DREAMERS AND FOOLS BELIEVE IN CHANGE IN AMERICA

OBAMA BLAMES THE RIGHT WING FOR THE ATTACKS ON HIS WIFE DURING PRIMARY

OBAMA GETS A TOKEN 5000 MORE TROOPS FOR AFGHANISTAN FROM NATO: AN IMPRESSIVE NUMBER OF DRIVERS COOKS AND MEDICS

OBAMA KEEPS AFGHANISTAN VERSION OF GUANTANAMO AT BAGRAM AIRBASE GOING

OBAMA PRIMARY CAMPAIGN AND THE NEW YORKER CARTOON COVER

OBAMA SIGNALS HE IS READY FOR COMPROMISE AFTER MID-TERM DEFEAT – WHAT THE ELECTION REALLY MEANS: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS ENDANGERED

 

OBAMA’S “TAINTED VICTORY” ON HEALTHCARE – ACTUALLY THE MESSINESS AND INEFFICIENCY OF THE LEGISLATION ARE TYPICAL OF AMERICAN POLITICS

OBAMA’S BERLIN SPEECH: SOME SPARK, A LOT OF DISAPPOINTMENT

OBAMA’S CAIRO SPEECH AND THE REALITIES OF ACHIEVING A FAIR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

OBAMA’S FAILURE IN WASHINGTON WITH CONCILIATION AND COOPERATION

OBAMA’S LETTING GO HIS NATIONAL SECURITY APPOINTEE AND THE ISRAEL LOBBY

OBAMA’S MIDDLE EAST EFFORTS JUST NOISE SIGNIFYING NOTHING

OBAMA’S OPPORTUNITY TO APPOINT A SUPREME COURT JUDGE AND SOME OF THE GENERAL DIFFICULTIES IN SUCH APPOINTMENTS

OBAMA’S SADLY EMPTY WORDS ABOUT AMERICA – IT’S TIME FOR AMERICA TO SHUT-UP AND ROLL-UP ITS SLEEVES – BUT THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN

OBAMA’S SPEECH ON THE MIDDLE EAST ATTACKED BY AMERICA’S RIGHT WING

OBAMA’S CORONATION?

OBFUSCATION VERSUS SIMPLY TELLING THE TRUTH GENERALLY SERVES TO DEFEND INCOMPETENCE

OLIVER KAMM’S INSANE CLAIM THAT BUSH HAS MADE THE WORLD A SAFER PLACE

OMAR KHADR SAYS HE WILL NOT GET A FAIR TRIAL IN AMERICA – AND HE IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT

ON A COLUMN COMPARING AMERICA’S LEVEL OF ASSISTANCE TO HAITI WITH CHINA’S – A FOOLISH EXERCISE IN UNTHINKING PROPAGANDA

ON A RIDICULOUS COLUMN ABOUT CANADA AND AFGHANISTAN: HOW WE WILL LOSE ALL THE THINGS WE GAINED IF WE LEAVE ON SCHEDULE IN 2111

ON AL JAZEERA’S EFFORT TO GET A LICENCE FOR THEIR NEWS SERVICE IN CANADA

ON AL QAEDA’S “ABUSING” BRITAIN’S FREE SPEECH AND “THE ENEMY WITHIN”

ON BARACK OBAMA’S BEING A PUZZLE

ON CBC’S LOWERING OF STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE IN AN EFFORT TO GAIN MASS AUDIENCE: A REGRETTABLE TREND BEST SEEN IN THE EMBARRASSING JIAN GHOMESHI

ON CELEBRITY ACADEMIC, RICHARD FLORIDA, AND HIS REPORT FOR DALTON MCCGUINTY, CIRCUS RINGMASTER OF ONTARIO

ON FORMER ONTARIO ATTORNEY GENERAL MICHAEL BRYANT’S KILLING A BICYCLIST: ONLY ONE PERSON CONTROLLED THE GAS PEDAL AND THE BRAKE

ON GEORGE GALLOWAY’S BEING REFUSED ENTRY TO CANADA

ON IGNATIEFF’S FAILING TO BOOST DEMOCRACY AND SERVE AS PRIME MINISTER BY NOT SUPPORTING THE COALITION – WHY IGNATIEFF IS A POLITICAL ALBATROSS

ON ISRAEL AND GAZA AND THE TIRED CHARGE THAT CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS ANTI-SEMITISM

ON OBAMA’S BEING FIRM WITH ISRAEL OVER ITS SETTLEMENTS

ON OBAMA’S BEING FIRM WITH ISRAEL OVER ITS SETTLEMENTS

ON OBAMA’S CALLING THE RECENT SQUIB OF A TERROR EVENT ON AN AIRLINER A “SYSTEMATIC FAILURE” OF INTELLIGENCE

ON OBAMA’S EFFORT TO GOVERN BY CONSENSUS

ON OBAMA’S NEED TO LEVEL WITH AMERICANS ABOUT THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

ON OBAMA’S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

ON OBAMA’S RELEASE OF BUSH TORTURE PAPERS AND HIS REFUSAL TO SEE CIA TORTURERS CHARGED AS THEY SHOULD BE

ON OBAMA’S TAKING THE OATH TWICE

ON PROSECUTING THOSE AMERICANS WHO TORTURED AND MADE IT POSSIBLE TO TORTURE

ON THE CLOSING OF GUANTANAMO AND THE CIA’S TORTURE GULAG

ON THE DELUSIONAL IDEA OF EVEN A TALENTED MAN LIKE OBAMA “REMOLDING” AMERICA

ON THE FAMILIES OF SOME DEAD SOLDIERS PLEADING WITH HARPER TO STAY IN AFGHANISTAN

ON THE FINAL CHAPTER TO CANADA’S AFGHANISTAN MISSION – WHATEVER THAT IS

ON THE IDEA THAT ISRAEL WILL NOT GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS

ON THE ISSUE OF MERIT PAY FOR TEACHERS

ON THE LEGALITY OF BUSH’S TORTURE TECHNIQUES

ON THE NOTION OF A MADE-IN-CANADA SOLUTION TO THE BURKA

ON THE NOTION OF CANADA’S MILITARY BEING INADEQUATE AND SOME GENERAL TRUTHS ABOUT THE NATURE OF MILITARIES

ON THE NOTION OF CANADA’S MILITARY BEING INADEQUATE AND SOME GENERAL TRUTHS ABOUT THE NATURE OF MILITARIES

ON THE PROSPECTS FOR A DEAL WITH THE TALEBAN

ON THE SENSIBLE NOTION OF TREATING TERROR AS ORDINARY CRIME

ON THE SUBJUGATION OF WOMEN BY RELIGIONS

ONTARIO CONSERVATIVE TIM HUDAK’S VERSION OF SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER

ONTARIO’S DALTON MCGUINTY AND HIS SUPPOSEDLY GREEN POLICIES

ONTARIO’S ENERGY POLICY IS SHEER MADNESS

ONTARIO’S PROPOSED SYSTEM OF COMBINING DAY CARE WITH KINDERGARDEN IN SCHOOLS

ORAL ROBERTS: THE GREAT OKIE FRAUDSTER HAS FLEECED HIS LAST FLOCK AND AMERICA’S GREAT INVENTION OF THE INHERITED MINISTRY

OSAMA BIN LADEN’S ASSASSINATION – NOTHING TO CELEBRATE AND NO JUSTICE AT ALL – CONSIDERING THE FACTS THIS IS JUST ONE MORE PROOF OF MIGHT MAKES RIGHT

PALIN AND CRIB NOTES ON HER PALM – HARDLY A BIG POINT BECAUSE SHE HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SAY WITH OR WITHOUT NOTES

PALIN CALLS OBAMA UNPATRIOTIC

 

PALIN SAYS SHE COULD BEAT OBAMA IN 2012

 

PARALLELS BETWEEN TRUDEAU AND IGNATIEFF BUT IGNATIEFF IS NO TRUDEAU

PLANS FOR THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

PLENTY OF REASON FOR DOUBTS AROUND 9/11 AND WHEN GOVERNMENT FAILS TO BE HONEST IT INVITES SUPERSTITIOUS NONSENSE

POLITICS AND THE AMERICAN SUPREME COURT – THE ABSURDITY OF THE JUDGE BORK FIDELITY-TO-THE-ORIGINAL POSITION – AND THE ROLE OF MILITARISM

PREACHING TOLERANCE TO SWEDEN WHILE DEFENDING ISRAEL’S GHASTLY INTOLERANCE AND THE HYPOCRISY OF CONFLATING CRITICISM WITH ANTI-SEMITISM

PROPAGANDA POSING AS ANALYSIS – THE CASE OF TOM FLANAGAN AND GENOCIDE

PUBLIC SCHOOL DROP-OUT RATE TOO HIGH – YES AND THERE ARE GOOD REASONS FOR IT

 

QUEBEC AND THE NIQAB – A CASE SURELY OF ABUSING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND A DOWNRIGHT FOOLISH BUSINESS

RACISM AND POVERTY AND DRUG DEALING AND GUNS

RAPE IN IRAN’S PRISONS IS THE CRUELLEST TORTURE ? AN UNINFORMED WRITER OFFERING MORE DEMONIZATION OF IRAN

 

REACH FOR THE STARS? APOLLO 11 NONSENSE

REFLECTIONS ON CHICAGO’S HYDE PARK-KENWOOD NEIGHBORHOODS – RESPONSE TO GIDEON RACHMAN’S WORDS ON TOURING OBAMA’S NEIGHBORHOOD

 

RELIGION’S FUTURE – MORE OF THE TRAIL OF DETRITUS FROM THE IDIOTIC MUNK DEBATE – COMPARING WHAT CANNOT BE COMPARED

 

REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST AND THE NOTION OF INCREASED ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE FACT OF ISRAEL’S BRUTAL BEHAVIOR

 

REPORTS OF GADDAFI USING VIAGRA ON TROOPS TO PROMOTE RAPE – PUT THIS UNDER THE CATEGORY GROTESQUE PROPAGANDA

 

RESPONSE TO A COLUMN ON SOMETHING OR OTHER BY CANADA’S PRESTON MANNING

RICHARD COLVIN A CANADIAN HERO & PATHETIC PETER MACKAY’S EFFORTS TO QUESTION HIS TESTIMONY ON THE TURNING OVER PRISONERS TO TORTURE IN AFGHANISTAN

RICHARD COLVIN STRIKES BACK AT THE GOVERNMENT’S EFFORTS TO COVER UP ITS INCOMPETENT BEHAVIOR AROUND TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN

RICK SALUTIN ADDRESSES CBC’S DUMB NEW APPROACH TO THE NEWS

RICK SALUTIN ON HARPER’S POOR EXCUSE OF A FOREIGN POLICY AND ESPECIALLY HIS OBSESSION WITH ISRAEL

RIDICULOUS BOB GELDOF NOW PREACHES THERE IS A NEW STORY OF AFRICA RISING

RIDICULOUS COLUMN ATTEMPTING TO DEFEND CANADA’S LAMENTABLE PRIME MINISTER HARPER FROM CHARGES BY JEAN CHRETIEN ABOUT NOT GOING TO THE OLYMPICS

RIGHTS CANNOT DISAPPEAR WHERE THEY NEVER EXISTED

ROBOTS AND THEIR FUTURE RIGHTS

ROGER EBERT AND THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA

ROMAN POLANSKI AND THE DANGEROUS CLAIM THAT ARTISTIC STATUS GRANTS ALLOWANCE FOR VIOLENT CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

RUSSIA’S SUPPOSED THREATENING AND BULLYING

SARAH PALIN’S TACTICS CALLED INTO QUESTION – BUT HER TACTICS ARE THE LEAST OF A BAD BUSINESS

 

SCIENCE AS RELIGION?

SECOND-RATE ACADEMIC AND MURDER-ADVOCATE TOM FLANAGAN AND “PARIAH PRODUCTS” – THE LAST BEING FLANAGAN’S AWKWARD TERM FOR GOODS LOADED WITH “SIN TAX”

 

SEEKING EXCUSES FOR BUSH’S AND BLAIR’S WAR CRIMES

SEVEN POINTLESS YEARS IN AFGHANISTAN

SHOE-THROWING MUNTADHAR AL-ZEIDI RELEASED FROM JAIL IN IRAQ: A HERO FOR OUR TIME

SILLY BABBLE ABOUT THE BORING JOHN MANLEY AND HIS NEW SINECURE AT THE CANADIAN CHIEF EXECUTIVES

SLEAZY SARKOZY TELLS PEOPLE HOW THEY SHOULD DRESS – WITH HIS EMPHASIS ON ONE GROUP HE DISPLAYS CLEAR ANTI-MUSLIM PREJUDICE

SOME BASIC PROBLEMS IN EDUCATION

STATE CLINTON SPEAKS ABOUT MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN IRAN AND A NEW ARMS RACE

STEPHEN HARPER TWO-FACED? ACTUALLY NOT IF YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT HIS HAITI BEHAVIOR VERSUS HIS USUAL

STEVIE CAMERON ASKS: HAVE WE FORGOTTEN HORRORS LIKE THE MONTREAL MASSACRE? A BIZARRE PIECE OF WRITING

STILL MORE ABOUT MERIT PAY FOR TEACHERS : A TOTALLY UNWORKABLE IDEA IN PRESENT DAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS – PUBLIC SCHOOLS’ CULTURE OF DISHONESTY

 

STILL MORE ABOUT THE GOOFY TEA PARTY: THIS TIME JOHN IBBITSON WRITES ABOUT AMERICAN ANTI-STATUS QUO MOVEMENTS

STILL MORE ON THE NIQAB – FREEDOM OF SPEECH – UGLY ASPECTS OF MANY RELIGIONS – NO ONE WHO LOVES FREEDOM WOULD SUPPORT SARKOZY

 

SUPREME COURT DECISION ON THE TERRIBLE CASE OF OMAR KHADR – AND THE IGNORANT SAVAGERY OF SOME COMMENTS

SWINE FLU AND THE POOR JOB THE PRESS DOES REPORTING IT

TEACHERS’ UNIONS A BARRIER TO EDUCATION?

TELEGRAPH EDITORIAL SAYING THAT BLAIR DESPITE HIS PAST RECORD SHOULD BE TRUSTED ON IRAN – AN EDITORIAL AS DISHONEST AS TONY HIMSELF

 

TERRY FOX’S FAMILY WANTS A MUSEUM

 

THE ABSURD NOTION OF MICHAEL IGNATIEFF AS “A TRUE PATRIOT SON”

THE AFGHANISTAN ELECTION NEWS REPRESENTS NO NEWS AT ALL

THE AMERICAN CLAP-TRAP VERSION OF HITLER’S STAB IN THE BACK: THE SMEARING OF HILLARY CLINTON DURING THE PRIMARY

THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE POLITICAL MESS: A KEY FACT NOT WIDELY APPRECIATED OUTSIDE THE U.S.

THE ANN COULTER CIRCUS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA: CALLING THIS A MATTER OF FREE SPEECH IS SILLY

THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT IRAN HAS A SECOND NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT PLANT: SO WHAT?

THE APPROACHING REVOLUTION IN VALUES

THE CAMBRIDGE SPIES OF THE 1950s AND THE GOOD PURPOSE THEY MAY WELL HAVE SERVED

THE CASE OF CONSERVATIVE MINISTER RAITT’S EMBARRASSING RECORDED CONVERSATIONS

THE CBC AND THE HARPER CONSERVATIVES

THE COMING ASSAULT BY HARPER’S GANG ON DION: TRYING TO MAKE HIM INTO DUKAKIS

THE CONTINUING POLITICAL SOAP OPERA OF CANADA’S MADCAP HELENA GUERGIS AND OUR ABUSIVE MINORITY PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER

 

THE COURT’S RELEASE OF ABDULLAH KHADR – OMAR’S BROTHER – AND THE MEANINGLESSNESS OF CALLING PEOPLE TERRORISTS

THE DARK ASPECTS OF KENNEDY’S ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE WERE FAR DARKER THAN DESCRIBED BY BRITISH JOURNALIST ANDREW MARR

 

THE DEATH OF ROBERT MCNAMARA

THE DECLINING BEAUTY OF COINS NOT OWING TO DECIMALIZATION IN BRITAIN

THE DILEMMA OF OPPRESSED MUSLIM WOMEN

THE DOLLAR’S REIGN IN THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END – A MAJOR ECONOMIC PROBLEM FOR AMERICA NOT EVEN DISCUSSED THERE – PLUS OTHER ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

 

THE EFFORT TO REMOVE A CHILD FROM HATEFUL PARENTS

THE EFFORTS OF CANADA’S LIBERALS TO PICK A NEW LEADER AND MICHAEL IGNATIEFF PROVES HIMSELF INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM HARPER

THE END OF KODACHROME

THE EXTREME DANGER OF AMERICAN PROTECTIONISM TODAY

THE FALSE IDEA OF HOPING OBAMA INHERITS KENNEDY’S LEGACY – OBAMA’S BETTER THAN THAT

THE FANTASY OF FIXING WHAT IS WRONG IN EDUCATION BEFORE IMPLEMENTING ONTARIO’S DAY CARE-KINDERGARTEN PROPOSAL

THE FBI DIRECTOR SPEAKS OUT ON SCOTLAND’S MERCY TOWARDS THE MAN CONVICTED OF LOCKERBIE AND ONLY ADDS TO THE FBI’S LONG, SHAMEFUL RECORD

THE FENCE CONTROVERSY AND THE VANCOUVER OLYMPIC CAULDRON

THE FOOLISH AMERICAN NOTION OF PROMOTING DEMOCRACY

THE FOOLISH USE OF AN UGLY EPITHET

THE FRITZEL HORROR AND OTHER DARK TRUTHS

THE GLOBE AND MAIL’S MATCHLESS LIGHT-WEIGHT MARGARET WENTE ASKS WHO’S AFRAID OF RIGHT-WING NORTH TELEVISION?

THE GOOFY TEA PARTY AGAIN – AND THE CLOWN SARAH PALIN – AND THE TRUTH ABOUT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

THE GOVERNOR OF BIBLE-BELT SOUTH CAROLINA AND HIS GLANDS

THE HARPER GOVERNMENT’S PROPOSED PURCHASE OF A GHASTLY EXPENSIVE AMERICAN FIGHTER PLANE ALMOST USELESS TO CANADA

THE HORRIBLE CASE OF MR. ABDELRAZIK LEFT STRANDED ABROAD AND TIME TO BRING HIM HOME

THE IDEA OF CHINA BECOMING A MILITARY RIVAL TO THE UNITED STATES – AN IDEA WITH NO BASIS

 

THE IDEA THAT OBAMA’S ELECTION SHOULD HELP RAISE GRADES

THE IDEA THAT PALIN’S QUITTING AS GOVERNOR IS A POLITICAL PLOY

THE IDEA THAT THERE MIGHT WELL BE MORE THAN TEN COMMANDMENTS OWING TO PUNCTUATION

THE IDEA THAT WE HAVE SUCH AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION

THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTS IN CHILDREN’S DRINKING

THE ISLAMIC THREAT

THE ISSUE OF FAITH SCHOOLS IN BRITAIN

THE JOE BIDEN CHOICE

THE LAUGHABLE PRESTON MANNING IS AT AGAIN – PONTIFICATING FROM HIS DESK AS SELF-APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF A SELF-CREATED INSTITUTE – SHIFT IN POLITICAL GRAVITY

 

THE LIBERAL PARTY SENDS ARROGANT IGNATIEFF ON A SUMMER-LONG BUS TRIP TO TOUCH ORDINARY FOLK – RICK SALUTIN CALLS IT HIS HUMBLING

THE LIKELY TRUTH BEHIND PALIN’S RESIGNATION AS GOVERNOR

THE LIMITS TO THE USE OF HARD POWER – OR ANOTHER ACADEMIC WRITES WITHOUT THINKING USING LANGUAGE FROM THE BANALITY OF EVIL

THE MASSACHUSETTS SENATE CONTEST AND OBAMA’S SITUATION

THE MATCHLESS FOLLY OF MARGARET WENTE ON COMPARISONS OF ISRAEL WITH APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

THE MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF AMERICAN POLITICAL CONVENTIONS

THE MEANINGFULNESS OF THE BIDEN AND CLINTON SPEECHES AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND DELUSIONAL AMERICAN THINKING ABOUT ITS POWER UNDER OBAMA

 

THE NEED FOR SEPARATING THE ART FROM THE PERSONAL VIEWS OF THE ARTIST: THE CASE OF DIRECTOR GODDARD AND HIS SPECIAL OSCAR

 

THE NEED FOR THE RCMP TO GET THE HELENA GUERGIS BUSINESS CLEARED UP?

THE NEW AMERICAN OFFENSIVE IN HELMAND AFGHANISTAN FINDS LITTLE ORGANIZED RESISTANCE

 

THE NEW YORK TIMES SAYS AMERICA’S TECHNIQUES IN GUANTANAMO COPIED FROM CHINA OF THE 1950s

 

THE NEWS THAT ABBAS IS ABOUT TO STEP DOWN AS PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT

THE NOAH’S FLOOD OF FALSE CLAIMS AND ARGUMENTS IN THE WAKE OF ISRAEL’S GAZA CONVOY ATROCITY – SOME FACTUAL CORRECTIONS

 

THE NONSENSE OF EXPERIENCE IN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

THE PALIN PARADOX? THE IDEA THAT AMERICAN ELECTORAL DISTRICTS WITH MORE MEN ELECT WOMEN

 

THE POPE BLUBBERS ABOUT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN CHINA: HERE IS WHAT HE REALLY MEANS AND POPE AS SYMBOL OF FREEDOM TO NONE

 

THE PROBLEMS WITH USING A “NO-FLY ZONE” TO HELP LIBYA’S REBELLION – AND IS ISRAEL HELPING GADDAFI?

 

THE PROPORTIONALITY OF ISRAEL’S RESPONSES: AN ARGUMENT BY SCHOLASTICS DEVOID OF HUMANITY AND ETHICS – AND THE ONLY WAY TO END THE HIDEOUS VIOLENCE

 

THE REAL MEANING OF RUSSIA’S GEORGIA ATTACK AS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF AMERICA’S GLOBAL HEGEMONY

 

THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD PARENTS IN BRINGING UP KIDS – RESPONSE TO A DEBATE BETWEEN BRITAIN’S DAVID CAMERON AND POLLY TOYNBEE

THE RETIRING OF ANDY BARRIE FROM HIS MORNING CBC RADIO SHOW

THE RIGHT DISHONORABLE BRIAN MULRONEY AND HIS ILL-GOTTEN MILLIONS

THE ROAD TO VICTORY IN AFGHANISTAN IS THROUGH PAKISTAN: VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA DEJA VU

 

THE RUBY DHALLA ABUSE OF CAREGIVERS BUSINESS

THE SINE QUA NON OF DEMOCRACY

THE SO-CALLED SADDLEBACK DEBATE: FUNDAMENTALISM CREEPS FURTHER INTO AMERICAN NATIONAL POLITICS

 

THE SO-CALLED SUPER-NOTE ONE-HUNDRED DOLLAR COUNTERFEITS AND THE IDEA NORTH KOREA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM

 

THE STONING OF GEORGE GALLOWAY’S EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE MISSION TO GAZA IS NOT ABOUT GAZA BUT IRAN?

 

THE STORY ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN’S ASSAULTING A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL IN NICARAGUA IN 1987

 

THE STORY BEHIND THE SHOOT-DOWN OF A MISSILE BY AN AMERICAN AIRPLANE-MOUNTED LASER

 

THE STUNNING CASE OF MICHAEL BRYANT – FORMER ONTARIO ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO FACES NO TRIAL FOR KILLING A MAN AND DRIVING RECKLESSLY

THE STUPIDEST THING YOU EVER HEARD OF?

 

THE STUPIDITY OF CALLING OBAMA A ROCKSTAR

THE SUPREME COURT DECISION ON CAMPAIGN FUNDING: AMERICA’S DYSFUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT

 

THE TATE MODERN AND THE SOFT-HEADED IDEA OF ART FOR EVERYONE

THE TIRED NEWS THAT OBAMA IS TO HAVE A MEETING WITH ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS

 

THE TIRESOME CHARGE OF ANTI-AMERICANISM OVER CANADIAN RESPONSES TO THE LOCKERBIE RELEASE: JUST A FORM OF REVERSE PREJUDICE AND HATRED

 

THE TORONTO SCHOOL BOARD’S CHRIS SPENCE PROPOSES AN ALL-BOY SCHOOL

THE TWISTED USE OF AHMADINEJAD AS PREPARATION FOR ISRAEL’S ATTACKING IRAN AND THROWING THE WORLD INTO CHAOS

 

THE ULTIMATE LAUGHING-STOCK EDITORIAL CALLS MUBARAK SHREWD AFTER HIS SPEECH DISAPPOINTING THE WORLD AND JUST HOURS BEFORE HIS RESIGNATION

THE UNITED STATES AND TERRORISM

THE UNITED STATES DECIDES ON A PRISON IN RURAL ILLINOIS AS A PLACE TO KEEP MANY GUANTANAMO PRISONERS

 

THE UPCOMING PULITZER PRIZES AND THE GENERAL FOOLISHNESS OF PRIZES

THE VOICE OF AUTHORITY FROM ONE OF AMERICA’S GREAT PROPAGANDA MILLS ON THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE ECONOMY

THE WIKILEAKS AFFAIR AND THE SHORTCOMINGS OF CONVENTIONAL JOURNALISM

THEATER OF THE ABSURD: THE DETROIT UNDERPANTS “BOMBER” AND PARANOID OVER-REACTION

 

THERE IS NO MORE HOPELESS EXPRESSION THAN “WE MUST REMEMBER” WHEN IT COMES TO PAST HORRORS

 

THERE IS NO SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, BUT THAT’S LIKE TELLING A CHILD THERE’S NO FATHER CHRISTMAS

 

THERE IS NO WAY TO JUSTIFY WAR IN AFGHANISTAN – THE MEANING OF THE SO-CALLED MISSION – SOLVING PALESTINE/ISRAEL THE SOURCE OF MOST MUSLIM DISCONTENT

THOUGHTS ON AMERICA’S RESPONSE TO CHINA’S RISE

 

TIGER WOODS AND COLOSSAL DISHONESTY AND THE MEANING OF CELEBRITY PRIVACY AND THE GOOFY CULT OF SPORTS

 

TIGER WOODS’ “APOLOGY” – A SCRIPTED LAS VEGAS SPECTACLE WITH A CAST OF THOUSANDS – PLUS A LAUGH-A-MINUTE SIDESHOW OF “SEX THERAPISTS”

 

TIME TO GET SERIOUS ON THE WAR ON DRUGS BLUBBERS A BRAINLESS EDITORIAL – REFLECTIONS ON AMERICAN SOCIETY THE CONSUMER OF HALF THE WORLD’S DRUGS

 

TIRESOME IN-HOUSE NEPOTISM AT CBC RADIO ONLY REDUCES PUBLIC RESPECT FOR THE NETWORK

 

TOM FLANAGAN AND STEPHEN HARPER WORK TIRELESSLY TOWARDS AN AMERICAN MODEL OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE – WHY ? BECAUSE THEY EMBRACE A NIETZSCHEAN VIEW

 

TOM FLANAGAN BLUBBERS ABOUT THE BLOOM BEING OFF ALBERTA’S GOVERNMENT OWING TO THE WILD ROSE PARTY’S RISE

 

TOM FLANAGAN SAYS POWER-SHARING WOULD GO A WAY TO SOLVING CANADA’S POLITICAL IMPASSE – AVOIDING POLITICAL SCIENCE TO PROMOTE HIS RIGHT-WING AGENDA

 

TONY BLAIR AND HIS BLUBBERING ABOUT RELIGION

TONY BLAIR IN SECOND APPEARANCE AT IRAQ INQUIRY SAYS HE REGRETS LOSS OF LIFE – MASSES & PRAYERS & THE PERFUMES OF ARABIA WON’T TOUCH YOUR STENCH TONY

 

TONY BLAIR SAYS HE WOULD STILL HAVE INVADED IRAQ

TONY BLAIR’S GREATEST CRIME NOT LISTENING TO CABINET?

TONY BLAIR’S PEACE AWARD: WHAT IT IS REALLY ABOUT

TOO EARLY TO WRITE-OFF NEW ISRAEL-PALESTINE TALKS? AN ANSWER TO JOURNALIST ALUF BENN’S EMPTY WORDS

 

TORONTO FINALLY AGREES TO DO CLEAN-UP OF ASBESTOS AFTER PROPANE EXPLOSION

TORONTO PUBLIC SCHOOLS’ QUALITY OF EDUCATION AND RATINGS

TORONTO SCHOOL BOARD OPENS ITS NEW AFRO-CENTRIC SCHOOL

TORONTO SCHOOL BOARD’S DIRECTOR ANNOUNCES ACADEMIES: A NEW BERNIE MADOFF PONZI SCHEME FOR EDUCATION

 

TORONTO’S GAY PRIDE PARADE AND THE ANTI-ISRAELI APARTHEID GROUP OF MARCHERS – A SAD ATTEMPT TO DEMONIZE THEM

 

TORONTO’S GLOBE AND MAIL SETS THE STAGE FOR ITS ELECTION ENDORSEMENT DISPLAYING ITS RECORD OVER MANY YEARS – BUT ENDORSEMENTS ARE OUTDATED AND INAPPROPRIATE

 

TORONTO’S MUNK CENTRE DEBATE BETWEEN TONY BLAIR AND CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS ON THE ROLE OF RELIGION – A NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN BARBARISM

 

TORONTO’S POLICE CHIEF BLAIR: NOTHING BUT POOR EXCUSES FOR POLICE EXCESSES AT G-20 MEETING

 

TWISTED NEWS COVERAGE OF THE SECOND CONVICTION OF OLIGARCH KHODORKOVSKY BY RUSSIA ‘S COURTS – AND A WORD ON THE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

 

TZIPI LIVNI AS WAR CRIMINAL AND THE PAINFUL TRUTHS OF THE 1967 WAR

U.S. NAVAL FORCES IN EXERCISES OFF EASTERN CHINA

WAR FROM A DISTANCE? GAZA?

WAR ON TERROR NEEDS TO EXAMINE EVENTS IN YEMEN?

WAS DEATH OF BRITAIN’S DOCTOR KELLY A SUICIDE OR A MURDER? THE DISHONEST TERM CONSPIRACY THEORIST AND CONSPIRACIES AS COMMON EVENTS

 

WESLEY WARK ON CANADA’S RICHARD FADDEN C.S.I.S. AFFAIR AND A RIDICULOUS COMPARISON TO KENNEDY AND DULLES

 

WIND TURBINES FOR “GREEN” ELECTRICITY – CLAIM MADE AESTHETICS ARE THE PROBLEM – BUT AESTHETICS ARE ONLY THE SMALLEST PART OF THE PROBLEM

 

WHAT AFGHANS WILL THINK OF CANADA’S CONCERN – COMMENTS WHICH SHOW HOW LITTLE SOME UNDERSTAND – HOPES FOR CHILDREN INCLUDING THOSE IN GAZA

WHAT IS AT STAKE IN AFGHANISTAN?

WHAT IS MISSING FROM ONE COLUMNIST’S LIST OF 2009’s FIVE TOP STORIES

WHEN IS CANADA’S OBAMA MOMENT?

WHO SAYS “GOD” MORE BUSH OR OBAMA?

WHOM TO BLAME FOR AMERICA’S ECONOMIC CRISIS ?

WHY IS THE UK STILL THREATENING ISRAELI POLITICIANS ASKS PHILIP JOHNSTON? THE ANSWER PLUS A COMPARISON OF GUERNICA AND OPERATION CAST LEAD

WHY QUOTE A PROPAGANDA MILL LIKE THE CATO INSTITUTE? AND PEOPLE WHO USE PEJORATIVE TERMS LIKE “LEFT-WING RANTS”

 

WIFE OF CANADA’S FORMER LIBERAL LEADER DION (MS. KREIBER) SPEAKS OUT ON FACEBOOK ABOUT THE DISASTER OF IGNATIEFF’S LEADERSHIP

 

WIKILEAKS AND THE IDEA THAT JULIAN ASSANGE IS A HERO ONLY FOR NOW – REFLECTION ON NATURE OF HEROISM

 

WIKILEAKS ON ROGUE STATES AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS – A BOOGEYMAN PIECE IGNORING THE GENUINE ROGUE STATE WHICH IS ISRAEL

 

WILL OBAMA’S SURGE WORK?

WIND POWER LUNACY INDEED

WINNERS AND LOSERS IN BRITISH ELECTION – THEY ALL LOST – AND THE NEGOTIATIONS NOW ARE THE NITTY-GRITTY OF DEMOCRACY

 

WOO CHINA WARILY: ANTI-CHINESE RUBBISH WITH NO PERSPECTIVE ON TODAY’S ECONOMIC REALITIES

 

WORDS IN MEMORY OF THE GREAT SOLZHENITSYN USED AS AN EXCUSE TO DISPARAGE OTHERS

 

YAWN: TELEVISION DEBATES COMING TO BRITISH POLITICS

YET ONE MORE MEANINGLESS EDITORIAL ABOUT “THE PEACE PROCESS” – NETANYAHU’S SPEECH TO CONGRESS

 

YET MORE ON CONVICTED OLIGARCH KHODORKOVSKY: A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A COMMENT MADE WITH NO KNOWLEDGE

 

YOUNG WOMAN WRITES OF CANADA’S ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN AFTER TROOPS LEAVE – SOME WELL-MEANING NONSENSE

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