Great New Yorker essay on Eastwood http://j.mp/9dXeiG
Live Free or Die
Nick Ragaz
Inspiration:
Mike Barrenger
Mission:
We aim to reclaim the language of liberty from its enemies on the left and the right: those who would bind liberal societies in the chains of moral relativism, and those who would impose the false freedom of a society in which the market is the only source of value.
Original:
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All thy sons command... no change
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Phew. But I don’t think that Speeches from the Throne are the intended forum for trial balloons.
I’m a bit stunned at the speed with which this O Canada lyric change trial…
Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Wall Street Journal has an editorial today blaming the 2007 minimum wage hike for higher teen unemployment. It features this nifty chart:
Hmm, is there anything else that might have…
An empty, almost flippant budget - Andrew Coyne's Blog, Canada - Macleans.ca
Andrew is right. But he really needs to start adopting a structural rather than an ideological analysis, if he wants to understand what’s going on and not just be mad about it. The mad is funny, though.
“ Every few months, he gets into a feud with Kevin Page, the Parliamentary Budget Officer. Page says the deficit will be bigger than Flaherty projected. Flaherty puts on his little Irish-cop smirk and says, poncy little crat doesn’t know what he’s talking about. And then the deficit turns out bigger than Flaherty projected.
Peering into tomorrow, blind as a bat - Inkless Wells - Macleans.ca
RT @stephenfgordon: Average revenue growth during the 2002-2008 expansion = 4.6%. 7% is dreaming in technicolour. #budget2010
Arctic Seabed Methane Stores Destabilizing
It’s a good thing this is all part of some giant conspiracy, because if I thought scientists at the University of Alaska were undertaking good-faith scientific research I’d be really worried about…
Los Angeles fact of the day
Not since the Beach Boys were in peach fuzz and crew cuts has it been so safe to live and play in the City of Angels. Believe it: you are more likely to be murdered in Columbus, Ohio, or Tulsa,…
Entering the Larry Craig Pantheon
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How do these people exist?
It’s no good for a family values Republican to get picked up on a DWI. But substantially worse to get picked up for a DWI after leaving a gay…
Did Rubin really say that?
This Huffpo article has no byline, and the quote is mostly an indirect one, but if Bob Rubin said anything like this he deserves all the pillorying that he’s getting, and more:
Much of the blame…
Obama’s speech today was great - wish we ever heard that tone from Cdn leaders. http://bit.ly/bkZi7e
Hébert: Tepid Tories hurt by inexperience - thestar.com
Agree, naturally. But - what would we expect their agenda to look like? I sort of think it’s actually a lot like what they’re doing - gradually dismantling some public services, posturing about the military, blocking climate change legislation, etc. - and spending wildly with no regard for deficits.
Obama's closing argument on health-care reform
“We began our push to reform health insurance last March with the doctors and nurses who know the system best,” Barack Obama said today, “and so it is fitting to be joined by all of you…
Toward better political candidates
Ross Douthat would like to see more “political journalists, think-tankers or public intellectuals” throwing themselves and their ideas into the arena. The only problem is that the people who spent…
