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January 22, 2012 vanillaman

The Happy Wanderer: The Gingrich who stole South Carolina

Now I don’t actually want to sound mean, but I just couldn’t resist. Well so far we have three candidates who won a state. Rick Santorum after some recounts in Iowa, Romney with his neighboring state New Hampshire and now Gingrich after getting endorsed by Rick Perry wins South Carolina. One Candidate in the whole

January 22, 2012 thescottross.blogspot.com

The Scott Ross: Canadian Pride

Canada has the best government, the best history, and the best culture, but what makes me proudest to be Canadian, is not the democracy, not the tolerance and diversity, not the public health care, nothing, absolutely nothing makes me prouder to be Canadian than the Canadians who believe they can

January 21, 2012 mollymew

Molly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-01-21 22:47:00

HUMOUR: HARD TIMES REPUBLICAN STYLE:

January 21, 2012 somecanuckchick

somecanuckchick dot com: On SOPA + PIPA + [Un]Lawful Access…

Millions of internet users and entrepreneurs already opposed the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act (aka SOPA and PIPA), including Google. Why NO SOPA? In case you missed it, somecanuckchick dot com went dark — along with thousands of others — on January 18, 2012 to protest SOPA

January 21, 2012 bazie

Progressive Proselytizing: The N-Party Problem

There is a famous problem in classical mechanics, a branch of physics, called the n-body problem. While interesting in its own right, the problem can be used as an analogy that is illustrative towards politics; in particular, the issue of predicting long term trends of political systems with two or

January 21, 2012 Massimo

Exponential Book: Education disadvantage

If a cash-strapped province or state had to make painful cuts to public services, the immediately noticeable effect would be the outright elimination of some of them. One would not think of, say, laying off a fraction of all bus drivers and asking the remaining ones to work longer hours,

January 21, 2012 mollymew

Molly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-01-21 14:44:00

HUMOUR: WITHOUT STRUGGLE THERE IS NO VICTORY:

January 21, 2012 CanadaToo

Canada II: Digging Deeper on Keystone XL

We are seeing a lot of headlines concerning pipelines these days. Here are some articles that should help shed light on what is actually happening with respect to the XL project. California Awaits Tar Sands Legal Ruling California’s low-carbon fuel standard is the world’s first attempt to require oil suppliers

January 21, 2012 The Arbourist

Dead Wild Roses: The Illusion of Choice – George Carlin

Wading through politics in North America one can get the idea that we have a lot of choice when it comes to running our countries and determining our social policies. It takes the brilliant thoughts of a late comedian to crystallize what our societies have become. Agree or disagree, Carlin’s

January 20, 2012 CanadaToo

Canada II: Winning Against Dirty Politics

How are we going to get the next Liberal Party candidate past the opposition Super PAC’s and their coordinated attack ads? Just in case Bob Rae was thinking of entering the fray, which many Liberals are not very interested in anyway, the so-called National Citizens Coalition released an opening salvo:

January 20, 2012 somecanuckchick

somecanuckchick dot com: 240 Days of Rae

It seems the Liberal Party of Canada is better with Bob Rae than without him… After all, it has been approximately 240 days since Bob Rae became the interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada… and the Liberals are up in the polls. Coincidence?

January 20, 2012 bazie

Progressive Proselytizing: Issues and Themes in the Toronto NDP Federal Leadership Debate

Part one of this blog’s coverage of the Toronto NDP Federal Leadership debate on January 18th gives an overview of the various candidates more on the side of personality, debating skills, speaking skills, and the like. This second post takes a look at the dominant themes and issues raised in

January 20, 2012 Saskboy

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Get Mad At SaskPower

I don’t know why I’m mad today at SaskPower. It’s not like they’ve gone out of their way to piss me off lately. I simply started thinking about how unjust it is that there are unscientific smear campaigns against wind power, but there aren’t as many well funded groups of

January 20, 2012 Alex Aylett

openalex: Republicans and Democrats Together on Climate Change…in Florida

It’s easy to forget that climate change hasn’t always been such a partisan issue. This is Mitt Romney, current Republican front-runner, in 2003: “I think the global warming debate is now pretty much over and people recognize the need associated with providing sources [of energy] which do not generate the

January 20, 2012 ADHR

On public goods and services.

January 20, 2012 CanadaToo

Canada II: XL: The Zombie Pipeline

Wait, did you think the XL pipeline was dead? Don’t be silly. This pipeline is still on target… it just wasn’t given quick approval during the false deadline artificially imposed by US conservatives. Why Keystone Pipeline Project May Get Built After All In December, Congress passed an extension of the

January 19, 2012 Anon

Canada II: Is the NCC a Super PAC?

It’s obvious, isn’t it? If you’ve been watching American television, and who hasn’t during the recent GOP convention Olympics, you know that Super PACs are third party funded operatives who do things on behalf of candidates. They do things that candidates can’t do. For example, they can raise unlimited amounts

January 19, 2012 Joseph Uranowski

The Equivocator: Hot Or Not: January 18th NDP Leadership Debate Edition

Hot: Beards: The hottest accessory at the Tom Mulcair after-party was a beard. If you are showing solidarity with your leadership or simply waiting in the forest for the revolution to come, you need to get yourself a beard. Transit City: The planning policy that would have turned “Toronto the

January 19, 2012 Adam

Things Are Good: Why We Went Down Yesterday

Yesterday you probably noticed that most of your favourite websites were down yesterday or had a notice up warning you about two bills in front of the American government. Those bills are SOPA and PIPA and essentially if these bills pass the internet would be all but dead to American

January 19, 2012 Ian

Terahertz: Brand politics

Dan Gardner’s latest article compares the success of the Conservatives and failure of the Liberals in terms of their basic branding message. He argues that one of the keys to the success of the Conservatives is that they have identified and sold their brand as “small government and individual liberty.”