Thomas More’s Words Are Still Appropriate Today
I can always find something in Shakespeare’s works to console, inform, delight, or move me, and more often than not, something that is remarkably relevant to current issues and events.…
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Choosing Bits from the Bible
This post from the U.S. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth is just distracting fluff, but it's such a curious collection that I want to give it a second look (video…
Plague Update: POStmedia Aims To Kill
The Gazette published an absolute turd of an article. Here are some of the lowlights: “Outside of a health-care institution, people aren’t really thinking about transmission,” he said. “In a…
Plague Update: Surviving or Thriving?
I really don’t know how people do it. How does the average person expect to survive the next decade? The last 6 years have gone terribly, and there is no…
2 Men Attacked By President
Here are two famous men attacked by the Orange Menace. I was impressed by this interview, especially given that he is facing unfounded charges. The goons doing this to journalists…
Pasting Facebook is blah
Nothing says trust the antiwaxxer more than them saying they hadn’t heard of a form of heart disease before they thought they could blame the COVID vaccine for it. Below…
Trump’s Nazification of the USA
Project 2025 was the MAGA world’s blueprint for turning the USA into a totalitarian state run by President — now dictator in all but name — Donald Trump. But the…
The Perfidious Lust for Unbridled Power
Saving this here. It's the beautifully penned order, in full, from Fred Biery, U.S. District Judge, a federal judge who ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Arias and his…
The Fakeness of Poilievre’s Leadership Victory
Mainstream media disingenuously called the vote to keep the rage-farming Trump mimic, Pierre Poilievre, on as CPC leader “a resounding endorsement.” Global News claimed “Members of the Conservative Party of…
Time to wean myself off my Trump addiction
OK, I admit it. I’m an addict. No, not to alcohol or opioids. I AM addicted to caffeine, but you’ll have to pry my Tims out of my cold, dead…
Plague Update: Emergency (Department) Over
If society organized and chose even a month to focus on preventing sick people from wandering around and flying everywhere, we’d wipe out more influenza like we did 6 years…
Where is John Pym Now That We Need Him?
John Pym is the sort of hero we need these days; a politician who risked his life and liberty to stand up against the abuse of power by a king…
How Neoliberalism Leads to Libertarianism to Mad Max
Despite its misleading name, neoliberalism is not a liberal, progressive, woke, or left-wing ideology. It is a deeply far-right economic policy that aims to benefit the rich, the businesses, and…
2025 Year in Review: Work and Impact
Every year I send around to former students some highlights of this years work. This time I’m posting here! Hoping some of this work is of interest to all of…
Can the USA be Saved?
The United States’ long experiment with democracy ended last year, just months shy of its 249th birthday since it declared independence from Britain. It quickly transformed itself into an authoritarian…
Epiphany
How many of the “do your research” blowhards figure they’re clever because a mobile device game told them their IQ is over 140 because they can free Santa from a…
Did anyone tell Premier Smith that the world is awash in oil today; and maybe for the next five years?
Sadiq S. Adatia CFA, FSA, FCIA is a bright man. He is currently the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for BMO Global Asset Management , and he’s responsible for overall investment…
Where did all the conservatives go?
Reading an article about immigration, a hot topic these days, in my latest copy of... The post Where did all the conservatives go? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Andrew Coyne in Regina
4 minutes to the Minifie Lecture with Andrew Coyne. Auditorium is nearly full in the wings too.#YQR #cdnpoli— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy.bsky.social) 2025-11-28T01:28:07.284Z