Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul Krugman highlights the anti-social austerity agenda at work in the U.K. and U.S.: (T)he austerity drive in Britain isn’t really about debt and deficits at all; it’s about using deficit panic as an excuse to dismantle social programs. And this is, of
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David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Tories train their intellectual big guns on Tom Mulcair: if Rex Murphy fails, there’s always Don Cherry!
Prime Minister Stephen Harper (clutching the balloon, centre) sets off his attack on Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair, who is illustrated standing in the background. Beep-beep! Actual federal politicians may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Tory big guns Rex Murphy and Don Cherry, plus former Tory big gun Norman Spector,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Mulcair’s Dutch Disease Comments: A More Rational Assessment
Despite the near-hysterical reaction of certain CBC broadcasters to the comments made last week by Thomas Mulcair about how tarsands developments are inflating the value of the Canadian dollar, thereby weakening our manufacturing sector, there are those who are able to more objectively assess his comments. One of them is
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Powerful Stench Of Obsequiousness At The CBC
With the polls revealing that the NDP, under leader Thomas Mulcair, is enjoying 34% of popular support while the Harper Conservatives languish at 30%, it is probably no surprise that the CBC is once again polishing up its apples in yet another desperate and misplaced effort at appeasing its political
Continue readingLeDaro: Peter MacKay: F-35 Purchase Fiasco
Rex Murphy once in a while gives great commentary. This is one of those commentaries. Peter Mackay an Honoury Defence Minister or not so honoury. “Is anyone in charge? Or is Peter MacKay a kind of honorary Defence Minister?” Murphy asks. “A real minister would resign after this week’s sad
Continue readingDear Rex Murphy/National Post
If you’re going to write about the Trayvon Martin case, at least pretend to care enough to get the dead kid’s name right: “Trevyor”? Twice?? I am available part-time for editing work… Call me…
Continue readingObama addresses Rex Murphy, Ezra Levant, Stephen Harper
Rex and Ezra look for Stephen. “I know he’s around here somewhere.” Not by name of course; Obama has no idea who the first two are and merely a begrudging acknowledgement of the third. But by speaking about climate change denialists, equating them with flat earthers, Obama could have been
Continue readingFlat Earthers, here’s an event you don’t want to miss. Breakfast with Rex Murphy.
You have to wonder about these big-time charitable foundations. Last week we discovered that the much-heralded Susan G. Komen Foundation was nothing but a front for rabid right wingers and Republican henchmen. Now I see the Heart & Stroke Foundation here in Vancouver is hosting a breakfast with Rex “Never
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Rex Murphy’s Year Ender
CBC’s professional curmudgeon offers up his patented barnacle encrusted summary of the year’s events: If you had hypothetically slept through the entire year like Rip Van Winkle and suddenly awoken to watch that demoralizing re-cap, might you not have been quite glad to have missed the whole demoralizing affair in
Continue readingJohn Doyle’s most irritating TV people of 2011
I’m beginning to think that John Doyle is Canada’s best social critic. His job may be to cover TV but his columns cut through the bullshit of so much more. It’s as if he’s talking for those of us on the outside without any national voice, a voice currently dominated
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On Canadian Churches, Climate Change, And Durban
Its all good, but my favorite bit is about how The National Post felt it necessary to spike Rex Murphy’s geriatric rage at the fact a mere African might dare to criticize Canada’s environmental record: The advertisement generated a torrent of exaggerated invective from some of the usual suspects – including CBC
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Rick Salutin Skewers the Mythology of the NDP and CBC’s Leftishness
My favorite columnist, Rick Salutin, has a brief video on The Star website in which he asserts that the NDP and the CBC are no more leftist than Rex Murphy, Kevin O’Leary, or Don Cherry. You can watch it here. Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Global Express: Rex Murphy on Vancouver Riot
Only in Vancouver would you see a riot after a hockey defeat. Afterall, Libyans are being killed by fighter jets, so how do we justify the actions that had taken place? Rex Murphy (in this video) give his expressive opinion on the mindless riot that took place.
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