Monthly Archives: June 2011

Breaking: Conrad Black going back to prison (1)

Conrad Black is going back to prison. Judge Amy St. Eve on Friday sentenced Lord Black to a total of 42 months. Having already served 29 months, he must now go back to jail for about one more year. “I … Continue reading

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Fighting Words: DeMint Warns Republicans They May Be ‘Gone’ if They Support Debt Ceiling Increase

Conservative firebrand Sen. Jim DeMint has a message to fellow Republicans in Congress: If you support increasing the debt ceiling without first passing a balanced budget amendment and massive across-the-board spending cuts, you’re gone — destined to be swept out … Continue reading

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Afternoon Update June 24th, 2011 (10)

CANADA #1 — CNews | Vancouver riot damage bill near $5M VANCOUVER – About 60 downtown businesses suffered damage totalling up to $5 million in last week’s riot, according to first estimates released Thursday, and one company has filed a … Continue reading

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Euro Crisis Has Decimated Greek Private Sector (2)

Consumption has plunged in Greece and so too have the profits of several small and mid-sized companies in the country. Many say that the government isn’t doing enough to help — and a new round of austerity could make the … Continue reading

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Delingpole: The science is settled – US liberals really are the dumbest creatures on the planet

Today I am in New York on my publicity tour for Watermelons and as I sat at breakfast this morning, chomping on an Ess-a-bagel and reading Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics I found myself wondering – not for the first time … Continue reading

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Editorial: Desperate Democrats jump the stimulus shark

“Jumping the shark” refers to TV sitcoms that have run out of ideas and resort to desperate stunts to stay on the air. Yesterday, Democrats, led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his chief deputies, Sen. Dick Durbin of … Continue reading

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Karzai surrounding himself with anti-US advisers (2)

President Hamid Karzai is increasingly isolated and has surrounded himself with an inner circle of advisers who are urging him to move closer to Iran and Pakistan as the U.S. draws down its role in Afghanistan, several friends and aides … Continue reading

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Solomon: Supreme skeptics

The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the world’s most august global warming sceptics. Not by virtue of their legal reasoning – the global warming case they decided turned on a technical legal issue — but … Continue reading

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Kheiriddin: Without Canada, French Quebec would be lost in a generation (1)

According to former Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe in an interview aired June 22 on RDI: “If Quebecers do not move [to separate], within 15 years, inevitably, they will find themselves on the same slope as the French Canadians and Acadians. It … Continue reading

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Klavin: Nuts

When Barack Obama was running for president, he put forward the idea that the war in Iraq had been no more than a distraction from the just war in Afghanistan.  I, on the other hand, who was running for nothing, … Continue reading

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Editorial: Geert Wilders’ important victory (1)

Geert Wilders is Dutch, not Canadian. And his acquittal this week on hate-speech charges was decided by a court in the Netherlands, not Canada. Nevertheless, his case deserves close scrutiny in our own country, because it points the way toward … Continue reading

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