SportsFilter (Free subscription) | yesterday
The women's soccer semifinals of the Mountain West Conference between the Brigham Young Cougars and New Mexico Lobos featured such bad sportsmanship that it made ESPN SportsCenter. One dirty shot by Lobos defender Elizabeth Lambert may singlehandedly revive interest in the Dorothy Hamill haircut among female athletes.
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
For the progressive left. radical lefty michael byers is also very afraid. he wants the NDP and the grits to cooperate. Thats most amusing. The NDP has been spending much of its energy attacking the clueless grits. He also wants proportional representation. None of this is going to happen. Poor michael byers, he'll have to just cry in his milk. This kind of arrangement was tried by dion with the greens...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Is it absolutely essential to have an overwhelming sense of your own importance before declaring yourself an environmental activist? Maybe not. Maybe there are some self-effacing activists out there, shouting slogans and waving placards in people's faces with a touch of humility. But it seems to help. Remember the youths who disrupted Question Period last week? "The most responsible young adults...
Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
eyeballs �The environment� is the most ingenious cover story for Big Government ever devised. You float a rumour that George W. Bush is checking up on what library books you�re reading, and everyone goes bananas. But announce that a government monitoring device has been placed in every citizen�s trash can in the cause of �saving the planet,� and the world...
ThePolitic.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Meet the Players In 1980, a newcomer to the game of politics set out to challenge the powerful, to force those in government to take notice of matters relating to the environment. In the election of that year, Elizabeth May ran for Parliament in the riding of Cape Breton Highlands – Canso. She earned 272 votes, and [...]
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
This AP story (found in the Mainichi Daily News) reminds me of an acid comment by Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary -- "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" : …U.S. defense and intelligence agencies, viewing … potential impacts of global warming, have concluded if they materialize it would become ever more likely global alliances will shift, the need to respond...
The Virginian (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Mark Steyn on Environmental Totalitarianism. Dead tyrants just had the wrong slogans ... At their Monday night poker game in hell, I’ll bet Stalin, Hitler and Mao are kicking themselves: “ ‘It’s about leaving a better planet to our children'’ Why didn’t I think of that'” This is Two-Ply Totalitarianism—no jackboots, no goose steps, just soft and gentle...
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
From Ian Robinson in the Calgary Sun : The recent election of Danielle Smith as leader of the Wildrose Alliance reminded me that among the many things I love about the libertarian/right wing are the women. Could be our slogan: Come for the culture war ... stay for the chicks. Right-wing women rock. Not for us the sturdy, honest calves of the New Democrat/Green Party female, honed on eco-tourist rainforest...
Devin Johnston (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May will be giving a talk at my law school today entitled "Greening Democracy in the Courts, and at the Ballot Box". Provided that the University of Manitoba wireless internet gods smile upon me, I will be liveblogging her speech, which begins in about 4 minutes. 11:57 AM While we wait for Elizabeth May to take the stage, I should point out that I may...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The merry pranksters who disrupted Question Period in the House of Commons the other day are upset that their display of activist fervor is not being treated with the respect they feel it deserves. The pranksters, self-described activists under the apparent guidance of an NDP overseer, took it upon themselves to disregard the rules of the House, not to mention the rules of common courtesy, and started...
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
"For Sarah Palin, party loyalty in New York’s 23rd congressional district asks too much," says Patrick J. Buchanan — Conservatives of the Heart . "Going rogue, Palin endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over Republican Dede Scozzafava." "Those who have been crying out for a 3rd party alternative to Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum can only chuckle at the...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Fact and fiction: A Trudeau biographer calls Bob Rae a 'hairy, rumpled student radical' and a novelist puts the Green Leader in Parliament
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Elizabeth May was joined in the visitor’s gallery today by author William Deverell. Here is the publisher’s synopsis of Deverell’s latest book. In bestselling Deverell’s latest hilarious mystery, Arthur Beauchamp moves to Ottawa, and all hell breaks loose. Arthur Beauchamp has followed his wife, the leader and first elected member of the Green Party, to Ottawa. But [...]
The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
By Ian Robinson, via the Calgary Sun : The recent election of Danielle Smith as leader of the Wildrose Alliance reminded me that among the many things I love about the libertarian/right wing are the women. Could be our slogan: Come for the culture war ... stay for the chicks. Right-wing women rock. Not for us the sturdy, honest calves of the New Democrat/Green Party female, honed on eco-tourist rainforest...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Last week a learned professor told us that failure to adopt an appropriate attitude towards environmental issues will soon be so socially unacceptable you'll have to glance over your shoulder before telling a Green joke. "So, an environmentalist, an activist and David Suzuki walk into a bar..." The Gazette reports: "I see this country at the cusp of great social change," says [David]...
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