Obama’s victory marked by a wealth of opportunity Posted: November 15, 2008, 10:30 AM by Kelly McParland Conrad Black, Full Comment, U.S. Politics Having confidently predicted the victory of John McCain, and having stuck with that until his blunderbuss campaign blew up, I will offer a few thoughts to the incoming U.S. administration. Rarely have […]
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Dear Mr. Prentice, Congratulations on your elevation to Minister of the Environment. I use the term advisedly because you are now in a position to do great good for current and future generations of Canadians. With respect, I submit you have a golden opportunity to effect real improvements in our environment by redirecting funding to […]
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Rescuers pulling market under – Drowning in too much stimulus. Drowning
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The G20’s architectural folly – One definition of folly–but of merely conventional policy making–is doing the same thing over and over, …. G20’s Folly
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Quantum of failures – Forget the markets: massive government failure is behind world fincial chaos. Forget the Markets
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by John Thompson. ‘For civilization is not something inborn or imperishable; it must be acquired anew by every generation, and any serious interruption in its financing or its transmission may bring it to an end.’ Survinging the Elite Will Durant
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Gerry Nicholls National Post Tuesday, October 21, 2008 With Stephane Dion shuffling off the political stage, the Conservative government must now come to grips with a new enemy. And I am not talking about Bob Rae or Margaret Atwood or a hostile left-wing media. The new enemy for the Conservatives is time; simply put they […]
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Conrad Black: Harper’s future is an opportunity waiting to be grasped Posted: October 18, 2008, 9:33 AM by Kelly McParland in National Post Stephen Harper has been rather unfairly panned for calling a mid-term election to try to get a parliamentary majority and falling short. But the government gained 17 MPs, extended its lead over […]
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The following lists the factors that denied the Harper Tories a majority despite facing the weakest lineup of opposition leaders in recent memory. 1. They played Liberal identity politics with a vengeance. Tribal/religious/territorial payoffs, apologies, pandering, appeasement to Chinese, Punjabis, Aboriginals, Sikhs, Quebecois, etc. What about Canada? The vast majority of Canadians are united in […]
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Conservative Party votes “overwhelmingly” to repeal hate speech law By Ezra Levant on November 14, 2008 11:28 PM According to reports from the Conservative Party’s convention in Winnipeg, Resolution P-203 — repealing section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, the “hate speech” provision — passed “overwhelmingly”. The vote was in a policy plenary session.
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