Haroon Siddiqui hits these columns out of the park. Much needed to be said but our media has been reluctant to shout out the obvious.
‘Islamophobia: The new anti-Semitism‘
Just as the Muslim world turned against the U.S. and Europe, Americans and Europeans turned against Muslims, including their own minorities, nearly half of . . . → Read More: Two powerful Star columns on Islamophobia. The new anti-Semitism. Tactics of Islamophobes.
Continue readingWhen a university takes money from an oil company to build skepticism for climate change, you not only have a dishonest higher educational body but also one that goes against everything that is sacred about the pursuit of knowledge. It becomes one big Con of a PR firm, you know like the Fraser Institute. Plus, . . . → Read More: Oil Illiteracy. University of Calgary paid to deny climate change.
Continue readingTasha Keirridin is a frightened woman. She is terrified of everyday life. She wants a man around to protect her from the inconveniences of life, the petty criminals and especially the big bad Muslim men with big black beards (emphasis mine).
Personally, I’d like to see some more law and order in this . . . → Read More: Tasha Keirridin embraces the Daddy State
Continue readingHarper could have said this himself on the CBC last night. In fact I think he did. It fit right in with his fear mongering about ‘Islamicism’. (Funny, it almost rhymes with ‘narcissism’.)
H/T: @AnonymousIRC
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And any little criticism of Israel is an invitation to be called an anti-Semite. It’s the official position of the ‘Harper Government’! That is what is disturbing; it’s your weapon against any discussion, any contrary thought, any questions.
Now you are taking that weapon and trying to turn it on Islam. It’s religion, son. It what religions . . . → Read More: Tarek Fatah: “What’s happened is that any attempt to attack Islamism is portrayed as racism. It’s very disturbing.”
Continue readingWhy not just get it over with and just imitate American presidents to maximum effect. How about an edict that Canadians must now hold our hands over our hearts during the “Star-Spangled Banner” “O Canada”?
Keep god out of our politics and government, sir. I know that shouldering a whopping Napoleon Complex is hard work . . . → Read More: “God bless Canada”? God has nothing to do with it, Mr. Harper. Also, caption this photo.
Continue readingI’m beginning to like Wikileaks all that much more.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s top priority last year was to stay in power while touting his economic stewardship, looking for a “graceful exit” from Afghanistan and avoiding any “sexy initiatives” on climate change, diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Canada wrote in . . . → Read More: “Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s top priority last year was to stay in power while touting his economic stewardship”
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Unlike the Federal and Provincial Governments – a Municipal Government is a Corporation and that may explain why some local Councils appear to have no conscience. Living breathing people have entirely different needs than a Corporation so perhaps it’s not so strange that the voting public can be amazed and . . . → Read More: the corporate nature of municipal governments…
Continue readingI thought the right couldn’t dive any lower but Ezra Levant and Michael Coren did just that on Fox News North. What can I say? Not even Fox News would ever go this low.
You still think Christie Blatchford’s opening salvo across the bow was a kindness? To all those journalists who . . . → Read More: “Put him in ground, for god’s sake”: Ezra Levant wears orange wig, drinks Orange Crush. Mocks Layton’s passing.
Continue readingYesterday, Christie Blatchford wrote a column for the National Post full of back handed compliments to Jack Layton on the day his death. Between the lines, however, lay a great streak of right-winged opportunism, attacking the man and his party for their beliefs and actions. Using terms like ‘vainglorious’ and ‘sophistry’, Blatchford used . . . → Read More: Jonathan Kay defends Christie Blatchford’s indefensible column on Jack Layton
Continue readingStephen Taylor must be so proud.
“By the end of today’s news cycle… …there will be no part of his anatomy left unkissed… “
Small Dead Animals begins its discussion of Layton’s passing begging for civility from commenters. Commendable but the fact that it is even necessary is a sad commentary of its own.
. . . → Read More: The right reacts to death of Jack Layton
Continue readingI understand the the importance of preserving forensic evidence but this borders on torture – and worse. Or, is this another example of guilty until proven innocent (emphasis mine)?
A woman who was bound and sexually assaulted by her then-neighbour, Col. Russell Williams, says the police left her tied up for five hours after responding . . . → Read More: To protect and serve: Police left Russell Williams victim bound and naked for five hours
Continue reading"believe me, the only reason the photo is available is because I WANTED IT OUT THERE…. actually it is quite a flattering photo of me: With finger cocked and pointing, I say "And I gotta take out these idiots!"
After two decades of issuing on-line threats Montreal’s Dennis Marcuze, better known by his . . . → Read More: Montreal police dragging its feet no more. ‘David Mabus’ arrested.
Continue readingYou don’t have to be under criminal investigation for tapping voicemails to be a corrupt organization. If you’re a news outfit, all you have to do is print yellowed, sensationalistic profiles solely intended to demean anything or anyone outside your ideological world view.
Such is the case with legendary 60′s icon and . . . → Read More: Rupert Murdoch fear mongers Robert Crumb from visiting Sydney
Continue readingDawg posted a video tonight I wish I had never seen. No, not a clip from the latest slasher flick. Worse. Michael Coren, using the meme begun by disgraced ‘historian’ David Starkey that it’s ‘not racism, it’s culture’, went on a riot of his own on Fox News North with Brian Lilley gleefully cheering him on. His rampage . . . → Read More: Michael Coren: “It’s not about race. It’s about culture”. Bullshit.
Continue readingDan Gardner calls this an “indecently enjoyable read”. I wholeheartedly agree. Too bad there is not more reporting like this about Fox News North (it really is).
The summation (emphasis mine):
Oh, and remember the news about Conservative Transportation Minister Denis Lebel being a Bloc Québécois member? I asked the folks at the media monitoring service Infomart . . . → Read More: Who knew Sun TV News was such a welfare queen?
Continue readingIt takes a special person to be proud of being the brunt of the blame from S&P downgrade, but the members of the Wisconsin tea party are such special people. During a TP event in Fond du Lac, about 200 baggers cheered proudly when it was announced they were being blamed for the downgrade.
SHEA . . . → Read More: WI tea party CHEERS being blamed for causing S&P downgrade
Continue readingJust in case you didn’t get that the first time around. This is a point the Democrats (and progressive media/bloggers need to hammer) for the next few weeks. But they won’t. The right is massed with talking points blaming the left for the defeat. But the text of the S&P downgrade doesn’t specifically call out the Democratic . . . → Read More: S&P on downgrade: “…the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.”
Continue readingThe Daily Mail, another one of those disreputable papers from the UK, has a rather strange profile of the National Post (so appropriately yellow in its colour design) founder. Strange, because it is so revealing not just of Mr. Black but of its oh so British author, who can’t decide if she is a gossip . . . → Read More: Conrad Black: guilty as hell – of being a pig, a prig and a sleazy fraud.
Continue readingLegendary media charlatan Andrew Breitbart does it again. One of his blogs put up an edited version of a video seemingly showing MSNBC talking head Norah O’Donnell saying, “…you gave them everything they wanted and we got nothing” in a question to the WH’s press secretary. Makes it sound like O’Donnell is using . . . → Read More: Schmuckraker Breitbart caught doctoring video AGAIN?
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