I thought it a travesty that no clear evidence to either exonerate or convict Casey Anthony was ever produced by the prosecution. In a case that involved the death of…
Heartland_Logo.png So recently, I’ve watched a few videos from the Heartland Institute conference on “Restoring the Scientific Method”—and it has been a fascinating experi...
Just curious….did you have a good childhood? If you’re reading this in a feed reader or email, you’ll need to visit www.knitnut.net to answer the poll question. Rest assured, all…
I've been yelling for the last couple of years that the first thing the Liberals needed to do to beat the Cons was to raise funds to create effective ads.…
Reading Christopher Hitchens’s article, titled “Some questions for the ‘activists’ aboard the Gaza flotilla”, in Tuesday’s edition of the National Post, almost got me to write a letter to Mr.…
Unless Stephen Harper breaks his own fixed election date law (ha ha ha!), we'll have a new set of ridings for the 2015 election.So for kicks this summer, I'm looking…
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Judge blasts Ottawa police over search - Ottawa Citizen -http://goo.gl/knvlVStrauss-Kahn Lawyers and Prosecution Set Meeting to Discuss Dismissal or Plea…
While I often castigate Canada's Sun and Post Medias, not to mention the editorial board of the Globe, for their conservative bias there are few more yellow-toothed than those hacks…
Renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has stated that climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of…
The whole column by Paul Robinson is worth a read but I was particularly struck by this part: When Peter MacKay is, as so often, praised for being popular with…
Fellow blogger Orwell recently wrote a post entitled The capacity for critical thought – how do we build it? In it, he was challenging readers to brainstorm ways in which…
openmedia_logo.jpg July 6, 2011 – OpenMedia.ca is announcing its boycott of the CRTC's controversial hearing on over-the-top (OTT) content, which will determine whether online video services l...
Ater invading Poland .... Oops! Wrong dicatator.After putting our soldiers in the most dangerous places in Afghanistan (A Soldier First, Rick Hillier) and blasting Libya back to the stone age,…
Statistics Canada released a survey today on the reasons given by those Canadians as to why they did not vote in the May 2 federal election: ..The most common response…
The past few weeks I've been a bit pre-occupied with several tasks and pursuits, so I haven't been blogging much, although I have been busy. About a month ago, I…
I love this routine by Larry Miller; it’s great storytelling, and it reminds me of my idiot friends. We went so far as to name all of these levels, including…
I wondered why Harper took the extension of the so-called "mission" in Libya to Parliament. He didn't have to. As prime minister he alone can decide whether or not to…
Firefighters in Downers Grove Illinois have found and rescued a 20 year old man with autism whose parents reported that he might be lost in the sewer system. Apparently after…
Chicago-based punk rock band Rise Against have contributed to the It Gets Better campaign by producing a video for their latest release, "Make It Stop (September’s Children)" to address a…
