Well, it really didn't take Paulie long to comment on the racial taunting incident in London, Ontario:We were surprised that he would take this position on the fine city of…
I recently entered into an online Facebook discussion over the recent Supreme Court Insite decision. This person (whom I don’t know personally - a friend of a friend) opened with…
Longish but must read article on the Koch brother' questionable ethics. Here's just the introductory paragraphs:In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately…
A bunch of old white jerks are using God’s name to harrass women outside health clinics. Even here in my own city. It sickens me. Dear Christians who Don’t Get…
Just file this one under “it’s all fun and games until someone breaks his penis”: A penile facture, or “broken penis,” is an injury that occurs to the erect penis.…
Poor, poor Dick Cheney. He feels he has been grievously wronged and is waiting for an apology. How dare the uppity Keyan Muslim socialist usurper suggest that President Cheney and…
"The FBI has received substantial criticism over the past decade — much of it valid — but nobody can deny its record of excellence in thwarting its own Terrorist plots.…
... most emphatically NOT the same as the Old Boss.Alison Redford is the newly-elected Leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta. As a sitting MLA, when Redford takes the…
With polls showing a minority government possible after this Thursday's election, Hudak has started a Harper-clone drumbeat of "the socialists are coming" by talking about a vote for the Tories…
...from Gruending:You cannot be a person of faith without being political, says Paul Dewar, the New Democratic Party MP for Ottawa Centre. In early 2009, Dewar spoke to my Faith…
CTV tells tales for the bosses. But the truth is Inconvenient. $75 Billion? Is that not big enough to qualify as a bailout? Ah. looks like they missed it after…
The queue went down the escalator of the Lord Elgin hotel – not that it was running – and stretched across the lobby. Inside the room, people were arranged not…
So... I know this blog is supposed to be about things political and historical in nature, but allow me a brief diversion into the world of theatre. If you insist,…
The corporate media are at last taking notice of the swelling #OccupyWallStreet protests: 700 arrests by New York’s Finest, engaged in their age-old violent defence of capital, cannot be ignored.…
Want to know the ONE thing that separates us from our U.S. brothers and sisters? The one thing that is keeping us partly solvent and off the streets? The ONE…
This post has been percolating for a while, and I was motivated to write it by a Royson James column I read a couple of weeks ago. For the first…
oil_subsidies.jpg As the so-called “Super Committee” works to figure out how to trim $1.2 trillion from the U.S. government’s federal deficit, the dirty energy industry has thei...
Gun lobby endorsed NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen declares “I am a gun-control candidate.”
Quick whip of two items so let's go:Good on the Supreme Court of Canada for ruling the Insite clinic in Vancouver does not run afoul of drug control policies; more…
Herman Cain's 999 plan and a proposed song for his campaign.
