The Future Of The CPC
Andrew Coyne made an excellent point in his column about the Manning Networking Conference that the Manning Centre is hosting in Ottawa: So this is what a Conservative convention looks…
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Alberta Bills 45 and 46
Others have spoke very eloquently about the problems with Bills 45 and 46. What I want to bring to readers’ attention is how the Redford Government is abusing not just…
More on Baird and Iran
People, even the media who watch such things, seem mystified by the Harper Government(tm) stance on Iran. It’s no big surprise, really. When I took this blog out from under…
The Face of Corporate Feudalism
Democracy is reeling. Corporatist authoritarianism is quietly ascendant. Rights and freedoms are now being issued with price tags and, if you can’t afford them, you don’t get them. Zoe Williams,…
CCCP, Meet CPC3
For years I’ve been pointing out that Stephen Joseph Harper has certain instincts reminiscent of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. The way Comrade Steve “reformed” the Prime Minister’s Office was a dead…
Are Conservatives Inherently More Biased than Liberals? The Scientific Debate Rages On
Republican Brain.jpg In the first round of critical reactions to my book The Republican Brain, there wasn’t much to impress. As I related at AlterNet, the general conservative response to…
Let’s Just Say It: When It Comes to Science, The Right is the Problem
polar_House_Means.jpg This weekend in The Washington Post, two deans of the Washington establishment, the Brookings Institution’s Thomas Mann and the American Enterprise Institute’s Norman Ornstein, finally stated what has been…
The Peril of the Authoritarian Mind
“They would march America into a dictatorship and probably feel that things had improved as a result…. And they are so submissive to their leaders that they will believe and…
Map reading equipment
Early on in my courtship with the man himself we still hadn’t figured out the best way to drive from Eastern Ontario to Western Massachusetts. Mapquest would have us go…
Liberals, NDP, whoever. I don’t care what we call them | #cdnpoli
The Tyee – This Year, Put the Country Ahead of the Party: ” … with the election of Stephen Harper, everything changed. No prime minister in Canadian history has come…
A File with Teh See-Siss
I have a seemingly unanswerable question that’s been giving me brain aches, so I thought I’d throw it out there on this fine Saturday afternoon. Why would an ordinary, if…
Lawrence Martin on Harper’s proto-fascism | #cdnpoli
Under this PM, the state is everywhere – The Globe and Mail: ‘via Blog this’ It doesn’t make up for the fact that it still publishes Wente, but every now…
Lt. John Pike, UC Davis Police: Little Eichmann of the Day
Time to revive a dormant feature. Here’s the tough guy, pepper-spraying unarmed students. Can’t help but notice the contrast: students sitting peacefully and silently get pepper-sprayed in the face. Students…
Is There a Bias Asymmetry Between Democrats and Republicans?
democrat_and_republican_symbols.jpg There’s a must read item today at the Huffington Post by Jonathan Weiler, co-author of the excellent book Authoritarianism and Polarization in American P...
The next time
… some screechy, screaming conservative Catholic like Our Lady of the Fetuses or Father Tubesock tries to make the case that conservatives like them are all about “liberty” and “the…
A Tale of Two Georges
I shouldn’t have to say it, but for the benefit of the cerebrally-deprived I will anyway: I am not a fan of George W Bush — far from it. But…
The capacity for critical thought – how do we build it?
Just as we wind down the first half of 2011 in preparation for Canada Day, three disparate blog posts are jumping out at me:At Sixth Estate, Government of Canada Issues…
@LacyMacAuley and my namesake: This is where we juxtapose, redux | #G20
"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal."She thought it over.…
On CBC, a further demonstration of Toronto cops’ contempt for us
On Metro Morning today, Matt Galloway talked to police union boss Mike McCormack about the nameless asshole who broke Dorian Barton's arm at the G20 last summer, and about the…
Toronto Police: Unaccountable, uncaring, unbelievable
The Star doesn't always get it right, but this time it's taken a centring pass in the slot and buried it in the top corner. When the provincial Special Investigations…