Honourable senators, were I among your number I would rise to remind you, at this moment of political and constitutional crisis, that in the Red Chamber we are masters in our own house. 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.

What are all these politicians doing here? And how can we make them go away? Click here to read the rest.

Can someone tell me the password for deleting accountability in Ontario? If it's as obvious as "McGuinty" we should change it. Click here to read the rest.

If Brent Rathgeber's footsteps echo as he walks through Parliament it's not because he's all alone after leaving the Conservative caucus. It's because he's walking through history. 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.

If someone in the PMO paid off a big chunk of my mortgage, how much would you trust my coverage of politics? Now, what if they did it for a legislator? It's wrong, totally wrong. And dangerous to our Constitution. Click here to read the rest.

Now the opposition are having fits over the Harper administration ...   Not really necessary to complete that sentence, is it? But I'm thinking about them being shocked and appalled at Tory MPs wondering how history is taught in Canada. Click here to read the rest.