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Do Teabaggers Read Books?
Well, not that much, apparently. At least if sales figures for the latest raft of books penned by Tea Party icons are any indication of that group’s appetite for book…
The PCs may not be a fully Tea Partyesque group, but there are some similarities
John Ivison from the National Post recently wrote a column calling out Liberal interim leader Bob Rae on his comparison of the Harper Progressive Conservatives to American Tea Partiers. Bob…
The Answer to the Tea Party No-Taxes Pledge
The world had just watched in befuddlement as the mighty USA has reeled from the impact on its governance of a large group of members of Congress who have united…
Tea Party is racist
A study by the university of Notre Dame has removed any doubt. It has only changed its uniform otherwise it is just another white supramist group with a tiny number…
What Rob Ford, the tea party and the Conservatives should learn from the British riots
But they won't.The last time Britain saw widespread rioting, in the 1980s, street violence came after a long and failed political struggle against the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, which…
Has the Ottawa Press Gallery Joined Big Bird’s Red Army?
The late Dalton Camp, former president of the now defunct federal Progressive Conservative Party, tells a story in his book: Whose Country is This Anyway, of a group of young…
The so-called “bipartisan” agreement in the U.S…
… is only putting off the inevitable unless something more substantive can be done to alleviate the unfathomable levels of American debt. Americans are going to have to pay now…
Happy Civic Holiday… and why Obama did the deal he did.
To all of you in Canada who get this first Monday off, whether it’s called Civic Holiday or whatever, all the best to you. As for politics on this day,…
Ross Perot, the Tea Party: Why Are Third Party Politics In the US So Crazy?
As radical as they think that they are, the Tea Party follows a pattern of attempts to create a third party in the US political duopoly - which, let's face…
Could the Tea Party Be America’s Salvation?
No seriously, just bear with me for a moment. Tea Party members of America's House of Representatives appear intent on bringing their government down. These excerpts from der Spiegel illustrate…
Norway: Terrible Side-Effect of Islamophobia
The horror, tragedy and seeming madness of the killing spree in Norway are almost impossible to imagine. There is a temptation to focus on the mourning and solidarity with people…
Is the Tea Party America’s Khmer Rouge?
The struggles underway between Congressional GOP leaders and the White House over America's debt ceiling have an eerie, nihilistic air to them.Some attribute it to the struggles Republican House leader…
Is Slavery Really the Best Thing for Families?
If you think keeping track of the myriad of think tanks and AstroTurf groups that prop up the neoconservative movement, is a challenge; try unravelling their Religious Right infrastructure.Just when…
A clever move in a broken political game
The "negotiations" surrounding raising the debt limit in the United States is a particularly poignant example of the oh-too-funny-if-not-so-serious circus of partisan, brinkmanship showboating that dominants so much of American…