Saying “cheese” is supposed to make you smile. So why doesn’t it work in trade negotiations?Click here to read the rest.
So what exactly is this quaint throne speech ritual? Just one more chance for carefully focus-grouped, insincere, pompous PR that further reduces our ability to control politicians. What else would it be? Click here to read the rest.
To put this U.S. government shutdown in perspective, forget for a moment that all right-thinking persons know Republicans are ignorant fanatical bigots and imagine it was happening in Canada. Click here to read the rest.
Almost 20 years ago, Bill Clinton said “The era of big government is over.” He was lying, of course. But for a reason: To convince voters he wasn’t too dumb to grasp that painful experience over at least three decades had proved big compulsory bureaucratic state programs weren’t just wasteful but actively harmful. So why do politicians go on creating them in response to every problem, real or imagined? Click here to read the rest.
O Canada, land of our ancestors, what hath become of thy anthem? Click here to read the rest.
At times like this, you’re sure glad Barack Obama is a uniter, not adivider, and used to be a professor of constitutional law. Think what harm a sneering hack in the White House might do at this worrisome juncture in America’s fiscal affairs.