Bye Bye, Canada
Francisco Toro is a Venezuelan journalist, political scientist and blogger. Covering Venezuela as a freelance foreign correspondent from 1999 to 2003, he reported for the Washington Post, the New York…
January 2012
Bye Bye, Canada
Francisco Toro is a Venezuelan journalist, political scientist and blogger. Covering Venezuela as a freelance foreign correspondent from 1999 to 2003, he reported for the Washington Post, the New York…
The Club Strikes Back!
Conflicts? WeDon’tHaveNoStinkin’Conflicts!Ville In case you missed it, there is a very exclusive Club in Lotusland. And, as Ian Reid explained some time ago, you and I are not in it:…
Atlanta Jewish Times Owner: ‘it might be time for the Mossad to take out Obama’
In a column published last week in his community paper, Andrew .B. Adler put forth three options on how to deal with those who don't put Israeli interests ahead of…
Atlanta Jewish Times Owner: ‘it might be time for the Mossad to take out Obama’
In a column published last week in his community paper, Andrew .B. Adler put forth three options on how to deal with those who don’t put Israeli interests ahead of…
Atlanta Jewish Times Owner: ‘it might be time for the Mossad to take out Obama’
In a column published last week in his community paper, Andrew .B. Adler put forth three options on how to deal with those who don't put Israeli interests ahead of…
Atlanta Jewish Times Owner: ‘it might be time for the Mossad to take out Obama’
In a column published last week in his community paper, Andrew .B. Adler put forth three options on how to deal with those who don’t put Israeli interests ahead of…
On “the Poodles of Power”
by Adam Curtis
alberta’s super saturday – tories voting in hotly contested nomination races today.
Supporters of Joey Oberhoffner, who is running for the Progressive Conservative nomination in Calgary-Fish Creek, rap for their candidate in this YouTube video. Mr. Oberhoffner is facing former Mount Royal…
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appoints NBA Great Abdul-Jabbar US Cultural Ambassador
Read the story here.
Microsoft endorses marriage equality
American multinational computing corporation, Microsoft, headquartered in Redmond, Washington, pushed for gay marriage legislation in the state Thursday via the company’s official blog in which Brad Smith, General Counsel &…
The Political Roots of Inequality
Last Thursday I was at an event on the issue of rising income inequality, sponsored by Canada 2020. It featured one of the authors of the recent OECD report on…
Would You Like Fries With That, Sir?
The result of a survey of unemployment rates among college graduates: Nice to see what would happen if they split up “Communications/Journalism” into two catagories. Writing up press releases for…
PZ Myers takes on Jonathan Kay’s exhortation that we should all read the bible
A fellow blogger recently speculated that Jonathan Kay is actually one of the more moderate Conservative writers. I had my doubts but nodded reluctantly. I wish I had read this…
liberal party of canada convention 2012 – renewal past the tipping point.
Zack Siezmagraff Guest Post by Zack Siezmagraff I am confident that the LPC convention this past weekend, which I attended as a delegate and past candidate for AB-Yellowhead , is…
Latter-day Saints praised
In the current First Things, a highly influential if somewhat obscure journal of intellectual religious conservatives (generally Roman Catholic), there is a brief Opinion piece entitled "Mormonism Obsessed with Christ".…
Photoshop du jour: A dream jam session
You say you want a revolution? You got it: “Imagínate que no hay cielo…” Can’t you just hear it?
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jim Stanford highlights a trend of employers forcing work stoppages in order to force massive concessions out of their employees – and notes…
Favourite Poems XLIV
To a Locomotive in Winter Thee for my recitative, Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining, Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing…