Iran & Israel: The Timing of the Attack
Today we probably learned the outer limits of the timing of an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities during a speech to the UN by Prime Minister Netanyahu. Israeli red…
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Justin Trudeau: The Tide Turneth
The National Post has an exclusive poll that shows that the Liberal Party would win a national election if Justin Trudeau became its leader: In an exclusive poll conducted for…
Justin Trudeau & The Ibbitson Question: Lessons from George Lakoff
John Ibbitson questions whether Canadians will follow the values that Justin Trudeau represents, and concludes that there is much mushiness which bodes ill for the Liberal Party under the younger…
Kay on Justin Trudeau: He’s not just a Pretty Face
Jonathan Kay of the National Post has an interesting reply to those commentators who describe Justin Trudeau as a lightweight politician: Justin Trudeau into the ring? It’s fashionable to write…
John Ibbitson gives some good reasons for choosing Justin Trudeau
In today’s Globe & Mail Ibbitson sets out some reasons why Justin Trudeau deciding to run for Liberal Party leadership is a good thing for the party. His point about…
Romney threat to Obama: The Middle Class vote
This poll shows that despite recent Romney ‘gaffes’(as defined by anti-Romney media and some Republicans), Romney is holding a lead over Obama when it comes to the middle class, who…
Unsettled state of voters’ views of leaders good news for Liberals
Especially if Liberal Party members and supporters select Justin Trudeau as their new leader in 2013. Trudeau has lots of room grow and could easily eclipse a much disliked Stephen…
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Use Facebook, twitter, email, blogs – whatever it takes. It is about voter fraud in the US – language is a bit rough, but her heart is in the right…
Obama’s Noise Gaffe on Iran-Israel: Will it cost him the election?
President Obama made a remarkable statement on 60 Minutes when he characterized the Israeli government’s concern about the need for a red line to deter Iran as ‘noise’ which he…
Open Letter to Paul Adams about Electoral Cooperation
Paul Adams has done us all a service by commenting on the wishes of the majority of voters in recent elections, and is now fending off attacks from right wing…
Cost of a botched coalition: A poll shows LibDem leader Clegg at MINUS 2%
How low can you go? If you are a politician of a party that traditionally has won around 20% of the votes cast in election after election, but with your…
Japan, China & Those Islands: Dueling flotillas increase tensions
A potentially deadly game of tit-for-tatis taking place at the two islands that are the centre of the dispute between China and Japan, both of whom claim ownership of the…
NDP’s Mulcair challenges PM Harper to stop the hollowing out of Canada
Thomas Mulcair’s NDP is onto a good thing with its policy of taking steps to stop the continuous hollowing out of the manufacturing industries in Canada. Harper’s Tory government is…
Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, Framing: When will Thomas Mulcair learn?
Stephen Harper, the one party leader who probably reads a chapter from George Lakoff’s magnificent work Don’t Think of an Elephant each night before he switches off the light, dragged…
Should Mulcair channel Hillary Clinton on the Ballot Box Question?
The 2015 election is already on, with Stephen Harper trying to choose the ballot question as anything but the poor Conservative performance in so many areas, the party’s blunders and…
Let us hope Justin Trudeau, like his father, can say this in 2015: We beat the bastards. Now it’s possible for us to do things
Like a modern Beverley Hills Cop actor, Newman – the man who would wreck the unmarked Liberal Party of Canada with a banana stuffed into its tailpipe; the man who…
Modified Red Queen Hypothesis: Do we need conflict for our further evolution?
Consider this latest takeon what made humans evolve so fast over 2 million years, compared to other animals: Red Queen hypothesizing “Inter-group conflict would certainly have placed a premium on…
Chinese state newspaper: Japan has been wolfishly pushing its luck on the islands
China Daily, the Hong Kong based English language newspaper owned by the Chinese state, and regarded as the window into China, has a few choice words to describe the conflict…
Mitt Romney’s failure: The Recession is Not Enough
Seems American voters want more than simply I am not the other guy from their presidential contenders, even when the country is suffering from a deep recession with high unemployment,…
Harris-Decima Poll: Has Thomas Mulcair’s waffling cost NDP support?
Has Mulcair’s waffling caused voters to start a fresh appraisal of the Mulcair-led Dippers? That just might be the case according to the latest poll showing slippage: Waffling Thomas A…