Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomas Piketty discusses our choice between developing models of global trade which actually produce positive results for people, or fueling the fire of…
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Trump University and the Dawn of the Donald
Once upon a time Donald claimed that his Trump University could make anyone as rich as he was, and that all could learn from the Master.Until after only five years…
Donald Trump and the Strangelove Nightmare
For a moment yesterday I thought we were saved.When news leaked out that Donald Trump might make Mitt Romney his Secretary of State instead of the sleazy Rudy Giuliani. Or…
New column day
Here, on how the impression that our votes for change don’t produce the expected results can lead to the public putting up with a destructive alternative just to have an…
Political campaigns matter #nlpoli
New information calls for a change in perspective. Turns out that the drop in turnout identified by the initial vote results wasn’t as big a drop from 2012 as initially…
If Donald Trump won’t knuckle under, could he face an American ‘Colour Revolution’?
PHOTOS: One of many anti-Trump rallies in the United States in the past few days (from Facebook). Below: U.S. President Elect Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, U.S. Senator…
Trumpland and the Need for Resistance
At a time when the whole world seems to be unravelling, or going mad, I'm not really interested in hearing from those trying to explain how we got to this…
Alex Jones and the Madness of Donald Trump
Alex Jones is a right-wing radio host, a fanatical Trump supporter, and one of America's most deranged conspiracy theorists.A man so crazy you have to see it to believe it…Read…
Guest Post: Where’s the evidence for a health care sustainability crisis in Canada?
PHOTOS: Well, that’s one way to “bend the cost curve” … premier Ralph Klein’s way. The old Calgary General Hospital begins to fall an instant after the dynamite was triggered…
Small Mercies? Is Trump Softening Stance On Climate Change/Paris Agreement?
There are signs. Climate change denier Myron Ebell may not get top spot at the EPA: Myron Ebell, a prominent climate change skeptic who runs the Competitive Enterprise Institute libertarian…
Small Mercies? Is Trump Softening Stance On Climate Change/Paris Agreement?
There are signs. Climate change denier Myron Ebell may not get top spot at the EPA: Myron Ebell, a prominent climate change skeptic who runs the Competitive Enterprise Institute libertarian…
Kellie Leitch, Donald Trump, and the Racist Rebel
I don't know from what diseased mind or minds those hateful posters came from. I don't know whether those racists were inspired by their Lord Emperor Donald Trump.Or boosted by…
Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and the Rise of The Resistance
It's easy to understand why so many Americans are so depressed, or so angry, at the thought of a Donald Trump government.Having any one of those deplorables in the situation…
The Travesty of the Electoral College
Of the myriad outrages that define last week’s United States presidential election — namely, the elevation of scandal over policy, of demagoguery over competence, of unabashed sexism and racism and…
At The Altar Of Baal
All along, Trump seemed like a twisted caricature of every rotten reflex of the radical right. That he has prevailed, that he has won this election, is a crushing blow…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of November 14, 2016
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Nov 14, 2016 at 7:03am PST Janet Reno dies at…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Karl Nerenberg examines new research from the Canadian Centre for the Study of Living Standards showing how workers have seen hardly any benefit…
Leaders and salaries #nlpoli
Donald Trump says he won’t even take one dollar in salary as president. Sounds familiar. In Newfoundland and Labrador, Proto-Trump said the same thing. His fan club insist the Greatest…
Don’t laugh or scream, but Jason Kenney is the Hillary Clinton of Alberta politics
PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton, grim faced, gives her concession speech on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. Below: Jason Kenney, who, it is predicted here, will in future be seen as the Hillary…
Trump win a call to arms for radical feminist men
Donald Trump’s election as the 45th President of the Unites States is a renewed call on radical feminist men to reject patriarchy, misogyny, sexism, white supremacy, and other men’s claim…