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.
The middle class is hurting. Maybe the government should do something. Click here to read the rest.
What just happened in that mall in Kenya? I know that shouldn’t be such a difficult question. But for a lot of people it apparently is because they just can’t grasp that ideas matter. Click here to read the rest.
What are all these politicians doing here? And how can we make them go away? Click here to read the rest.
When a British soldier was slaughtered in London in broad daylight by people shouting Allahu Akbar, the British government typically threatened to crack down on illegal hate speech that is, in fact, already punished from anyone except Muslim extremists, while insisting there is no problem of Muslim extremism. It will not do. Click here to read the rest.
On Wednesday Globe and Mail arch-pundit Jeffrey Simpson called the Harper administration "a government of salesmen, not statesmen" who "don't let facts stand in the way of the pitch" because they've replaced good old broad-minded Red Toryism with a "narrower ideology". This deft rendering of the conventional wisdom managed, remarkably, to insult both salesman and ideologues while being exactly backwards. Click here to read the rest.