Month: March 2011

Peas in a Pod: Peter King & Khaled Meshaal

The New York Times has been impressing me recently. Today they fire a shot right across hometown Congressman Peter King’s bow. For Representative Peter T. King, as he seizes the national spotlight this week with a hearing...

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In Praise of Politics

Politics is often used as a bit of a dirty word: as a synonym for corruption, inefficiency, favouritism, cronyism and an offence to objectivity and merit. Those who criticise “politics” frequently do so from a...

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Casual Observation

Bureaucrats want to take away your debit card!. That’s right. Have you seen that advertisement? Banks are going to take away your debit card because they won’t be able to charge retailers 44 cents a transaction...

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If you had cancer would you ignore it?

On Thursday, the House is set to vote on a bill to cut the EPA’s budget by 30% (including investments in green technology research and development) and strip the agency of the right to issue regulations to control...

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I’m Tired of This Crap

This is ridiculous: The Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced this afternoon that it was putting on administrative leave 21 priests alleged to have behaved inappropriately with minors. The archdiocese said it was acting in...

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