Sep

30

Top 100 intellectuals in the world

September 30, 2005 | 3 Comments

Prospect Magazine has a list of the top 100 intellectuals in the world. Michael Ignatieff and - I can barely write this - Naomi Klein are the only Canadians on the list.
It tells us just what sort of list it is when Ms. Klein makes it and Jane Jacobs doesn’t. (Hat tip Grandinite.)

Sep

30

Destabilization - its a good thing

September 30, 2005 | 1 Comment

Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, said Thursday that he had been warning the Bush administration in recent days that Iraq was hurtling toward disintegration, a development that he said could drag the region into war.
“There is no dynamic now pulling the nation together,” he said in a meeting with reporters at the Saudi […]

Sep

29

Hello

September 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Google TV

Sep

29

Arabs-I

September 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The drumbeats against Iraq that originate from the League of Arab States and its Egyptian apparatchiks betray the panic of an old Arab political class afraid that there is something new unfolding in Iraq–a different understanding of political power and citizenship, a possible break with the culture of tyranny and the cult of Big Men […]

Sep

29

SUV sales decline

September 29, 2005 | 3 Comments

Daiman Penny points to this:
John Mathews of Universal Toyota in San Antonio has witnessed the day that auto industry executives in Detroit said would never come.
“We are seeing people who are driving $40,000 Suburbans trading them in on $15,000 Corollas,” said Mathews, who manages a dealership in a state where big trucks and sport-utility vehicles […]

Sep

26

China Calling

September 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Last month the government tried to implement a scheme to pay journalists according to how much Communist party officials liked, or disliked, their articles. In July a political activist was given five years for posting a punk song on the internet deemed to be subversive, and in April a journalist was sentenced to 10 years […]

Sep

26

“It wasn’t me”

September 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The violence began on Friday after an explosion at a Hamas rally in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. A rocket displayed on a pickup truck fell off and exploded, detonating two others. Twenty people died and more than 100 were injured.
Hamas denied responsibility, blamed Israel and fired 39 Qassam rockets at the Israeli town […]

Sep

25

If it’s ANSWER even Kos is embarassed

September 25, 2005 | 5 Comments

As protests go today’s was a bust.
Watching clips of the Answer Anti-War Rally, all I see are things that I want nothing to do with. I am a staunch supporter of Israel, and its fundamental right to exist. I bet you that the majority of Americans who are against the war are […]

Sep

24

Ralph Goodale is so much smarter than anyone

September 24, 2005 | 1 Comment

This past spring Liberal numbers were showing an estimated $9 billion surplus, then came the Atlantic Accord: $2.7 billion payable starting this (not last) fiscal year and carried forward to future years. But Ralph piled it all into last year’s spending. Hmmm. Doesn’t sound like generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)?
Add on billions more in next […]

Sep

23

Okay, Brent is an Idiot, but

September 23, 2005 | 1 Comment

Earlier this week I received a call from the Fox News Senior Vice President for International Distribution in New York to discuss this story. She was very appreciative of my concerns and told me that the person responsible for negotiating the contracts with Canadian cable providers is no longer with Fox and that they had […]

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