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May
18
Yasser Arafat transferred millions of dollars in international aid and taxes transferred to the Palestinian Authority by Israel to purchase large quantities of weapons, the PA chairman’s former financial aide, Fuad Shubaki, has told the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency). Some of the Israeli money, Shubaki told his investigators, was also used to fund Palestinian […]
May
18
By a Whisker
May 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’ve been busy. Too busy to do the political calculus which lead to tonights’ 149-145 vote in favour of extending the Canadian mission in Afghanistan by two years. It is important that the Tories won the motion and important that Canada’s commitment be affirmed. However, the Tories need not have taken the risk […]
May
17
Quick, someone tell Heather
May 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad have been reprinted in a U.S. magazine with commentary by leading U.S. cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who offers what he calls a “fatwa bomb meter” to rate their offensiveness.
Harper’s Magazine published the article by Spiegelman in its June edition available on newsstands from Tuesday, joining only a handful of […]
May
15
Melanie Phillips for a Monday
May 15, 2006 | 1 Comment
Get a cup of coffee and then read Melanie Phillips’ interview over at Front Page
Multiculturalism has turned Britain’s values inside out – and the root cause of the problem is the deconstruction of Britain’s identity. For decades, the British elite has been consumed by loathing of its national identity and values which it decided […]
May
13
NSA…USA…F**K Yeah
May 13, 2006 | 3 Comments
A majority of Americans initially support a controversial National Security Agency program to collect information on telephone calls made in the United States in an effort to identify and investigate potential terrorist threats, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The new survey found that 63 percent of Americans said they found the NSA program to […]
May
12
Tough…
May 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment
As their government withers without international aid, Palestinians are tailoring modest lives to desperate times. Bartering, borrowing and doing without, thousands of people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are improvising their way through a deepening financial crisis with help from native sons, virtual strangers and each other.
Government salaries directly or indirectly sustain […]
May
12
NSA…
May 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment
USA Today has published a story which is putting the left side of the US blogosphere into a lather. The National Security Agency has been, quietly, creating a data base of all of the telephone calls made in the US - with the exception of those in the QWest area as QWest was not co-operating. […]
May
11
Nuts
May 11, 2006 | 2 Comments
A Senate committee wants drinkers to pony up a nickel a beer to help fund an ambitious, 10-year, $5-billion fund aimed at reforming mental health treatment in Canada.
In a sweeping report released yesterday, the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology calls for a new excise tax on beer, wine and alcohol to […]
May
11
Brooks puts the boot in…
May 11, 2006 | 2 Comments
Here’s the bottom line, though: Jack! hasn’t got the balls to try it. Behind the inflammatory rhetoric and the porn-star moustache, he’s too addicted to sniping consequence-free from the sidelines to throw himself into action. Layton understands with a second-generation politician’s instinct that bleating costs him nothing, whereas going over the top of his political […]
May
11
Onward Christian Soldiers
May 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment
While I am not a fan of the word “Christianists” as a parallel for Islamists it does serve a purpose as Andrew Sullivan points out:
In all of this, the Christianists do not represent most Christians, although they have made great strides in the Vatican and in the fundamentalist leadership. I should stress: these people have […]