A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada I realize that Friedrich Von Hayek died in 1992, but he is one of the “scholars” who helped to draft neoconservative theory.In Lawrence Martin’s book Harperland, he states that h…
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Pushed to the Left and Loving It: If There is a Referendum, I Will Vote to Abolish the Senate
There is a lot of discussion about Stephen Harper’s plans to reform the Senate, by placing term limits of nine years, but only on those appointed after 2008.Most of the opposition is coming from Harper’s own senate appointments, many of whom have been …
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: JP Morgan Fined $153.6M For Doing God’s Work
It is becoming increasingly evident that the so-called “Economic Crisis” was carefully engineered to force governments to tear down their welfare states.The 153.6 million fine for JP Morgan is a drop in the bucket, when we look at the billions of dolla…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: RCMP Looking Into Misappropiation of Funds Re: G-8 Spending
Several people, including myself, have contacted the RCMP about the $50 million dollars spent in Tony Clement’s riding, that was supposed to be for border security and the easing of congestion at crossings.Stephen Harper’s only defense was that they ha…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Allan Bloom Writes Harper’s War on Women Strategy
(Left to right, William Gairdner, Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom)A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada I first read Susan Faludi’s 1991 classic, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, several years ago, and I…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Harper Fires 92 Auditors Before They can Reveal His Military Expenses
After buying the Bush Doctrine and changing a few words (mainly just replacing ‘Bush’ with ‘Harper’), Canadians may never know how much Harper’s new ‘Democracy’ business is going to cost.In a premptive strike, Stephen Harper has fired 92 auditors, as p…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Rape as Weapon of War is Bigger Issue
During the debate over the extension of the Libyan “mission”, NDP foreign affairs critic, Paul Dewar, brought up the subject of rape as a weapon of war.He wanted the Conservatives to promise to address the issue.This may have been inspired by the chang…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Will Bob Rae and Jack Layton Attempt to Filibuster Back to Work Legislation?
Jack Layton has vowed to filibuster Conservative back to work legislation, and Bob Rae is standing in solidarity with postal workers.Harper is being Harper, siding with management and throwing in a few ‘economy, economy, economy’.The ‘economy’ doesn’t …
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Harper’s War on Women Was Launched in the USA
A CULTURE OF DEFIANCE: History of the Reform-Conservative Party of Canada “The woman who is truly Spirit-filled will want to be totally submissive to her husband . . . This is a truly liberated woman. Submission is God’s design for women.”BEVERLY LAHAY…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Harper Breaks Rules to Live Large on Our Dime
‘Harper Breaks Rules’ is becoming as common a headline as ‘Harper lies’, but in another arrogant reminder that he is boss and will do what he wants, Canadian Press has learned that Harper’s office spent $340,000 on hospitality, without prior approval.T…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: If Vic Toews Had Lived Then …
I spent several years researching my family history, not only to create a genealogy, but to find the stories that brought my ancestors to Canada.The first arrived in 1632 as an army surgeon. His future wife would join the colony at Port Royal, a few ye…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Will NDP Members Vote for Their Party to Go Right?
As angry as I have been with Jack Layton and his alliance with Stephen Harper, I had great hope for the party.Packed now with union leaders, activists and bright-eyed youth, I thought they might be able to rouse Parliament with a bit of the prairie fir…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Jack Layton May Have Sold Out for Nothing
I mentioned yesterday being surprised that every single NDP voted in favour of bombing the hell out of Libya.Layton performed his usual posturing, saying yes drop those 1000 bombs, but then I’m going to say enough. What an amazing blowhard he has turne…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: What is Really Going on in Libya?
I can’t help feeling that this so called “mission” in Libya is just more blood for oil. You can’t save people by bombing them, and yet we are bombing the hell out of the place.I’m no fan of Muammar Qaddafi, but the oil companies were, and in 2008, lobb…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: So Who’s the Elitist Now?
Rhys Kesselman, Canada Research Chair in Public Finance and a professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Public Policy, has an op-ed in the Globe and Mail discussing the Harper government’s new tax policies, clearly designed to benefit the high…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Why Are we Allowing the Media to Write the Narrative?
I’ve found myself getting upset the past few days reading columns about the Harper majority.There is an overwhelming attempt to rewrite Stephen Harper’s political story.Angelo Persichilli tells us that yes Harper was in the Reform Party but left becaus…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: What in the Heck Has Happened to Barack Obama?
Each visit would begin in more or less the same way, usually early in the morning or late at night, as a CSIS agent would ring the doorbell and flash his credentials.Then the questions would begin: How long have you known Stefan Christoff ? Is Stefan C…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Conservative MP Leon Benoit Doing Crossword Puzzles During Question Period
Robert Fife just tweeted that Conservative MP Leon Benoit was doing crossword puzzles during question period.Well he’s certainly earning his $150,000+Sorry that his work is cutting into his leisure.Not that he does anything of any importance, except pr…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: As a Political Analyst Angelo Persichilli Makes a Great Shoe Salesman
Angelo Persichilli finally came out of the closet a few months ago and admitted that he was indeed a Conservative. Phew!And I thought he was a liberal.Persichilli certainly isn’t the only right-wing columnist in the country, but at one time I thought I…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: I Stand Corrected on Tony Clement
I’m still unable to leave comments on my blog, or even respond to them, but several of my readers provided some vital insight into Clement’s spending orgy.One dealt with bicycle racks, which are indeed part of infrastructure spending. However, they sho…
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