Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
"Defending the indefensable" is my favourite line. Here's the rest.
Daimnation! (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
There ain't no stinkin' oil involved in Afghanistan, dude. A letter sent to the Globe and Mail, though not published: Lawrence Martin, in his column "Big Oil pumps up the ugly Afghan and Iraqi mix" (July 3), goes on and...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Part of a blogging theme today...In addition to Lawrence Martin's bulls eye today that puts responsibility where it properly lies for the obstruction at the Ethics Committee this week, i.e., with the "crybaby stuff" Conservatives, there's a Star editorial as well that calls it like it is. These pieces are notable in that we can see that the print media, at least as far as we can see here,...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Today's Lawrence Martin column does an excellent job of exposing the Conservatives hypocrisy on "dysfunction". I've used the analogy before, but Harper complaining about parliament functioning properly is akin to the SKUNK bitching about the SMELL:Cry us a river, Tories, but who wrote the book on chaos'Oops. Maybe they forgot.Last year, the governing Conservatives prepared a secret handbook...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Lawrence Martin in today's Globe talks about the claim that Parliament has become dysfunctional. He reminds us of two things. First, the Conservatives are hardly innocent of causing chaos in committees -- remember their 200 page handbook on how to hijack committee meetings. Second, if Parliament is so dysfunctional how is it that it passed almost all the legislation put forward by the...
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Even uber grit Lawrence Martin, thinks dion and his grits will have trouble, explaining that they oppose legislation they supported three months earlier. Playing the immigration card will come with some risk for the Liberals LAWRENCE MARTIN In the spring the Liberals acquiesced in the passage of the Conservatives' immigration legislation. In the fall they will bring forward...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Speculation on the possible sale of the perennially money-losing National Post has been running rife of late, with far more people than actually read it mulling over its fate.Lawrence Martin says the Postâs sale would be politically ground shaking, particularly if a Liberal such as Senator Jerry Grafstein picks it up, given the Postâs long-held Conservative bent (it tried single handedly...
Canadian Christian Conservative (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
The Globe & Mail's Lawrence Martin as an interesting piece in yesterday's paper, entitled, "A new vision for the country?", where he offers his two cents on the apparent Conservative plan to correct some of the "political imbalance" (my own new word) that has existed for far too long... where Ottawa has been controlled by Toronto's wishes and interests, rather than the interests of the...
WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
... Apollo 15 was launched from Cape Kennedy, Fla.In 1986, kidnappers in Lebanon released the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, an American hostage held for nearly 19 months.Ten years ago: The White House said President Clinton's lawyers were working with prosecutor Kenneth Starr to avert Clinton's direct testimony to a grand jury about the Monica Lewinsky case. (The president ended up testifying...
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
... Apollo 15 was launched from Cape Kennedy, Fla.In 1986, kidnappers in Lebanon released the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, an American hostage held for nearly 19 months.Ten years ago: The White House said President Clinton's lawyers were working with prosecutor Kenneth Starr to avert Clinton's direct testimony to a grand jury about the Monica Lewinsky case. (The president ended up testifying...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Yep. Lawrence Martin with a good one today. No big ideas from Harpie, just "war politics." Martin's suggestion: The war mentality of governance can work in the short term. But, in the long term, something more is needed. With the tides shifting, the Conservatives need a bold new program, something to show the public they can do more than crack heads. At the two and a half year...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Lawrence Martin in the Globe today, continues the ongoing scolding from the establishment press of Stephen Harper's inexplicable defense of the gulag at Guantanamo Bay. Harper is playing to the base here - and it's an unpleasant base as anyone who ever waded into the comment swamp at The Western Standard's Shotgun blog could tell him.He's got the redneck vote already and playing to them...
Daimnation! (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The Globe and Mail's reality-challenged Lawrence Martin quotes reality-challenged Prof. Michael Byers on changing the NDP's name: [...] Just calling them the Democrats would also widen the party's reach, make it sound more accessible. "It will be an indicator of...
Accidental Deliberations (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
I'll leave aside for now the merits of Michael Byers' proposal for an NDP name change, as well as the positive signs for the NDP pointed out in Lawrence Martin's column today. But it's definitely worth noting that just weeks after Byers chose the NDP over the Libs in the face of direct appeals from both, he's already publicly showing a strong interest in building the NDP in the long term...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... in August 2001, one month before, well, you know … ..and, as Toronto’s Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin put it, “Washington was furious, leading to speculation it might take out the Taliban. After 9/11, the Taliban, with good reason, were removed — and pipeline planning continued with the Karzai government. U.S. forces installed bases near Kandahar, where the pipeline was...
