Monthly Archives: January 2010

CEOs to Hill: Quit Calling Us for Campaign Cash

Dozens of current and former corporate executives have a message for Congress: Quit hitting us up for campaign cash. Roughly 40 executives from companies including Playboy Enterprises, ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s, the Seagram’s liquor company, toymaker Hasbro, Delta … Continue reading

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Booker: The real story behind the Glaciergate scandal

Dr Pachauri has rapidly distanced himself from the IPCC’s baseless claim about vanishing glaciers. But the scientist who made the claim now works for Pachauri, writes Christopher Booker. I can report a further dramatic twist to what has inevitably been … Continue reading

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Will Blair go to war again?

The TV trucks and protesters are ready. The former PM will take the Chilcot stand on Friday – but will it be Showdown Day or a classic British anticlimax, asks Andrew Gilligan. Jack Straw’s appearance before the Chilcot Inquiry, as … Continue reading

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You need a brave heart to stomach haggis (1)

A stench like halitosis from the worst demon in hell threatens to bludgeon everyone out of the room. A cauldron of steaming livers, hearts and lungs disappears into the maw of an industrial mincer and slops out of the other … Continue reading

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Steyn: Too Much of a Bad Thing

So what went wrong? According to Barack Obama, the problem is he overestimated you dumb rubes’ ability to appreciate what he’s been doing for you. “That I do think is a mistake of mine,” the president told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. … Continue reading

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'A cure in sight'? Not so fast

From the opening seconds of CTV’s W5 report last November on an Italian doctor’s new treatment for multiple sclerosis, host Lloyd Robertson firmly established the aura of the late faith healer Oral Roberts. The lame will walk and the sick … Continue reading

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Subsidy system obnoxious

Buzz Hargrove, the former head of the Canadian Autoworkers’ Union, has a new memoir entitled Laying it on the Line. Among the many tired, hackneyed political myths he perpetuates is this one: Last year’s threat of a Liberal-NDP coalition held … Continue reading

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World Jan. 24th, 2010 (10)

#1 — BBC | Afghanistan parliamentary election postponed Afghanistan is to postpone its parliamentary elections by four months until September, the country’s election commission has confirmed. [...] #2 — BBC | Tanker spills oil off Texas coast after collision Up … Continue reading

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Canada Jan. 24th, 2010 (10)

#1 — CBC | Prairies punched by winter storms Manitoba and Saskatchewan are in for a weekend of stormy weather as two nasty systems move through the region. [...] #2 — CBC | Thousands protest Parliament’s suspension Thousands of people … Continue reading

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Lasers to beam energy to Earth from space

Solar energy collected in space and beamed back to Earth by laser could soon be used to power homes and electric vehicles under a project by European space engineers. It sounds more like a scheme dreamed up by a James … Continue reading

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Lobbyists prepare for battle with President Obama

Banking industry lobbyists are preparing to do battle, buoyed by a landmark US Supreme Court ruling striking down limits on corporations’ political spending, against the ambitious and agressive plans laid on Thursday by President Obama. Despite the pointed attacks made … Continue reading

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