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Raymond de Souza highlights the deception that most Western media are hiding behind in relation to the Muhammad cartoons:Doug Kelly, the Post's editor-in-chief, told me flatly that his decision not to publish the cartoons to date was an editorial one, made on principle, not from fear of reprisals. He added that he would not publish an offensive image of Jesus in similar circumstances.Given the

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Fry his ass.A 40-year-old Toronto comic better known as the obnoxious Scot who berates bartenders and pub patrons in television commercials for Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale has been charged with possessing child pornography and making it available over the Internet.Robert Norman Smith was charged yesterday after detectives from the Toronto police child exploitation section searched his home

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Salim Mansur has an interesting observation on the ages of religions:Why, then, is there such a disconnect between what Muslims insist their faith represents and the conduct of some Muslims, as we witness it in recent times?For a plausible figurative explanation consider the following: Chronologically speaking Islam is in its 15th century, Christianity in its 21st and Judaism in its 58th.We might

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Hugo Chav-ez is trying to stir up trouble by inflamatory lingo over the Falkland Islands.Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, has called Tony Blair "the main ally of Hitler" and called on him to return the Falkland Islands to Argentina.As part of an ongoing verbal dispute, Mr Chavez said the islands belonged to Argentina and demanded Britain give them back.Mr Blair infuriated Mr Chavez

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Michael Kinsley points out that the Muslim's cartoon of Hitler and Anne Frank merely demonstrates that the West does in fact believe in freedom of speech, despite the craven reactions of many of its newspapers and governments.Meanwhile, whatever point these European Muslims were making with their cartoon of Hitler and Anne Frank is more or less disproved by their very exercise. No one tried to

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So put that pepper shaker away.

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The controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have incited worldwide violent protests are now causing a stir at the University of Prince Edward Island.The student newspaper, The UPEI Cadre, chose to run the cartoons in its most recent edition fresh off the press. UPEI moved quickly Wednesday to stop the paper from being distributed on campus.“When we realized that they were in

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Theodore Dalrymple gives a pessimistic view of Europe's future, which is sadly well-rooted in current realities.The principal motor of Europe’s current decline is, in my view, its obsession with social security, which has created rigid social and economic systems that are extremely resistant to change. And this obsession with social security is in turn connected with a fear of the future: for the

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She will not run for the Senate after all. Damn! What am I going to do with all the popcorn I've been hoarding?

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LOL!THE BILL OF NO RIGHTSby Lewis NapperWe, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our descendants, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the

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Canadi-anna has made a post at her blog in which she supports the non-publication of the Muhammad cartoons in the Canadian media for the reason of not gratuitously causing religious offense to Canadian Muslims. It's well worth a read, and as usual, it is a well written and thought-out post, but I have to disagree with her.When Jyllands-Posten originally posted the Muhammad cartoons, they quite

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Exciting stuff for archaeology freaks!An American team has found what appears to be an intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first found in the valley since that of Tutankhamun in 1922, one of the archaeologists said on Thursday.The tomb contains five or six mummies in intact sarcophagi from the late 18th dynasty, about the same period as Tutankhamun, but the archaeologists have not yet had

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Deserting American traitor Jeremy Hinzman will shortly receive the decision of Federal court.UPDATE: And by "shortly" I mean "could take bloody ages".The soldiers want the Federal Court of Canada to overturn an immigration board decision last March that denied them refugee status in Canada. A decision on this round of the judicial process is not expected for several months, and it could take

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Erm...."They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers" Thanks for clearing that up, then.H/T: Secular Blasphemy

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Next time you read lamentings about how people's real wages have declined, keep this column by Thomas Sowell in mind:Economists' estimates of how much the consumer price index exaggerates inflation range from an estimate of one percentage point by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan to an estimate of 1.5 percent by Michael Boskin, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to

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Lovely column by Walter E Williams:The way our Constitution's framers used the term, a right is something that exists simultaneously among people and imposes no obligation on another. For example, the right to free speech, or freedom to travel, is something we all simultaneously possess. My right to free speech or freedom to travel imposes no obligation upon another except that of

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At Michelle Malkin, details of how Imams in Denmark fabricated additional (and very offensive) cartoons to inflame the Muslim world.In addition to the fake drawings and photos and the other lies included in the Danish imams' propaganda pamphlet posted over at The Counterterrorism Blog, my reader reports that Danish radio has enumerated additional falsehoods.The imams reportedly spread lies that

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Kathleen Parker tackles the leftist idea that the cartoon portrayals of Muhammad are somehow equivalent to Nazi cartoons of Jews or racist cartoons of blacks:The other argument, also based on a logical fallacy, is that the Danish cartoons are comparable to racist caricatures of Jews in Nazi Germany and blacks in the segregationist South. The Boston Globe, which saw fit in the past to defend "Piss

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Via National Review.So - the New York Times writes about the Danish cartoon controversy, and includes a photo of demonstrators... and one other photo. The caption:Chris Ofili's "Holy Virgin Mary" was at the center of controversy when shown at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999.Yup, it's the Virgin Mary depicted in elephant dung painting.What a bunch of wimps. They'll run photos of art that offends

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Tom Bevan asks the question.And so we wait and continue to wonder: where are the moderate Muslims today? Where have they been for the last five years? We saw protests against terrorism in the streets of Amman last year – but only after the horrendous suicide bombing of a wedding shocked the consciousness of Jordanians. Aside from that, we’ve seen nothing demonstrating the magnitude and

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Michelle Malkin rounds up the largely disappointing reactions of the American media to the Cartoon Jihad. Needless to say, Canadian and UK papers are equally cowardly.

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Daniel Pipes gets it:The key issue at stake in the battle over the 12 Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad is this: Will the West stand up for its customs and mores, including freedom of speech, or will Muslims impose their way of life on the West? Ultimately, there is no compromise: Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or

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Hirsi Ali is the Dutch politician who was forced into hiding by threats from Islamofascists. She is interviewed at Spiegel Online:SPIEGEL: Why have the protests escalated to such an extent?Hirsi Ali: There is no freedom of speech in those Arab countries where the demonstrations and public outrage are being staged. The reason many people flee to Europe from these places is precisely because they

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Much of the leftwing intellectual elite has been lecturing against freedom of speech, condemning the publication of the Muhammad cartoons, and pontificating that we all need to be more respectful of religious sensibilities, and that the real issue here is Islamophobic intolerance.Meanwhile, leftist actors are involved in this:In a new Turkish movie, "Kurtlar vadisi - Irak" ("Valley of the Wolves-

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Victor Davis Hanson sees hopeful signs that Europe is regaining its spinal fortitude.Yet suddenly in 2006, the Europeans seem to have collectively resuscitated. The Madrid bombings, the murder of Theo van Gogh, the London subway attacks, and the French rioting in October and November seem to have prompted at least some Europeans at last to question their once hallowed sense of multiculturalism in

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From filibuster cartoons.

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Paul Marshall makes an important distinction.Finally, amid current calls for "toleration" and "respect for belief," we need to be very clear about the distinction between religious toleration and religious freedom.Religious toleration means not insulting somebody else's religion, and it is a good thing. But religious freedom means being free to reject somebody else's religion and even to insult

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The crooked David Dingwall got his severance package, and once again the Liberals covered up the truth from the Canadian people.CTV News has learned the deal to pay the former president of the Royal Canadian Mint $417,780 along with associated pension benefits was approved Jan. 20, three days before Canadians voted in the federal election."I believe that could have been the difference between a

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An article in The Australian discusses historical depictions of Muhammad by Muslims.Depictions of Mohammed were common during the Ottoman Empire, when the taboo on portraying him was less strong, although often his face was left blank. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a 16th-century picture of Mohammed in a mosque, wearing long sleeves to hide his arms and hands.A 14th-century Persian miniature

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For reference, the cartoons are here.

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Jeff Jacoby:HINDUS CONSIDER it sacrilegious to eat meat from cows, so when a Danish supermarket ran a sale on beef and veal last fall, Hindus everywhere reacted with outrage. India recalled its ambassador to Copenhagen, and Danish flags were burned in Calcutta, Bombay, and Delhi. A Hindu mob in Sri Lanka severely beat two employees of a Danish-owned firm, and demonstrators in Nepal chanted: ''War

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Daniel Schwammenthal is pessimistic about Europe's chances in the ongoing conflict against Islamofascism.The Islamists demand no less than absolute supremacy for their religion--and not only in the Muslim world but wherever Muslims may happen to reside. That's why they see no hypocrisy in their demand for "respect" for Islam while the simple display of a cross or a Star of David in Saudi Arabia

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Mark Steyn recognises that the multiculti "sensitivity" being displayed by gutless Western government officials is nothing more than craven appeasement and spineless surrender.Jyllands-Posten wasn't being offensive for the sake of it. They had a serious point -- or, at any rate, a more serious one than Britney Spears or Terence McNally. The cartoons accompanied a piece about the dangers of "

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A statement often heard by leftists goes along the lines of "why shouldn't Iran have nuclear weapons? America and Israel have them!"Lee Harris shows why this is flawed reasoning.There is an important law about power that is too often overlooked by rational and peace-loving people. Any form of power, from the most primitive to the most mind-boggling, is always amplified enormously when it falls

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James Glassman skewers it.America is no more addicted to oil than it is addicted to bread, to milk, to paper, to water, to computers or, in the immortal words of the late Robert Palmer, to love.What the hell is Bush thinking?

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Tim Cavanaugh thinks that the controversy over the Muhammad cartoons is a welcome breath of fresh air.Free expression advocates have made an effort to frame the Jyllands-Posten cartoons as a responsible attempt to broaden the conversation on religious freedom, when in fact (as several of the cartoonists themselves acknowledged) the stunt is unambiguously provocative, juvenile, offensive, and

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What do China, Cuba, Sudan and Saudi Arabia have in common?They are all brutally repressive dictatorships.And they all have seats on the UN Human Rights Commission.Joseph Loconte discusses the failure of the UN, and the alternatives for those who still have a sense of moral realism.Earlier this month the Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations, chafing over a U.S. plan to salvage the

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This is such a good article by IbnWarraq at Spiegel Online, I'm just going to paste the whole thing.The great British philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote in On Liberty, "Strange it is, that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free discussion, but object to their being 'pushed to an extreme'; not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any

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It seems that there is something badly wrong with the Blogger system today. New posts are nt showing up on the dashboard, and when any republishing is done, the new posts just disappear.This is happening with quite a number of people. Consequently, I wont be posting for a couple of days, or until I find out somehow that this problem has been fixed. I've already lost a number of posts today which

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The BBC is going to stand up for freedom of speech, according to a report in The Times.The BBC is tonight planning to screen the 'blasphemous' cartoon images of Muhammad which have caused uproar across the Muslim world.Station controllers said this afternoon that they had decided to use the pictures during tonight's edition of Newsnight on BBC2 in a report on the international dispute which has

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Debra Saunders points out the hypocrisy of Cindy Sheehan whining about freedom of speech after being turfed from the SOTU speech for violating House rules.If Sheehan wants to fight for First Amendment rights, she might want to stand up for The Respect Life Ministry of the Oakland Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. The group paid to put up billboards on BART that ask the question, "Abortion:

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One of the papers that published the Muhammad cartoons yesterday was France Soir. Its editor, Jacques Lefranc, has now been fired by the owner, Raymond Lakah.France Soir originally said it had published the images in full to show "religious dogma" had no place in a secular society.But late on Wednesday its owner, Raymond Lakah, said he had removed managing editor Jacques Lefranc "as a powerful

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Read more.Addendum: Michelle Malkin has much more on this, including how Western media actually seems to be getting behind the fight for freedom of speech.Addendum 2: Oh yes, and while we're at it, let's not forget this little guy, the victim of craven dhimmitude by authorities in the UK.

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It just had to be recorded for blogsterity.

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The Globe & Mail: Same-sex vote likely to be tight.Yeah yeah, so I don't have much to blog about today. What's your point?

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The disturbing anti-free speech Racial and Religious Hatred Bill has had most of its sting pulled by Parliament. The Government lost a couple of key votes on the bill, one of them by just one vote after Tony Blair had left the House!TONY BLAIR’S authority was shaken by two surprise defeats last night that weakened his Bill to create the crime of inciting racial hatred. Key measures were lost by a

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An interesting post at the YouGov blog on a survey conducted about attitudes to evolution, ID and creationism in Britain.A BBC Horizon programme last week covering the recent court case over the teaching of intelligent design in US schools commissioned a MORI poll asking what people in Britain thought. 48% of people in Britain thought the theory of evolution best described their view, 17% thought

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McKenna....withdrawn.Manley.....withdrawn.Tobin......withdrawn.Cower before the power of BELINDA!Coming soon to a natural party of government near you.

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Dennis Prager (who I often find irritating), nails it this time:First and foremost, it proves what people who perceive reality have been saying for decades: The great majority of Palestinians -- like the majority of Arabs elsewhere and like vast numbers of non-Arab Muslims -- want Israel destroyed. Even granting legitimacy to the argument that the complete moral, financial and political

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The rhetoric employed by the political left during the election concerning Mike Harris reminded me a lot of what you hear from British leftists about Margaret Thatcher. The left hates both of these politicians, of course. They both inherited an economy shattered by left-wing policies, and they both turned things around with tough but necessary common sense measures (usually involving conflict

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A disturbing column about new MP Omar Alghabra, who won election in Mississauga.Despite the Conservative victory in Canada, the Liberals can boast a new member of parliament, Omar Alghabra from the suburban Toronto riding of Erindale-Mississauga. Even before his election, Alghabra’s nomination victory made news because of the Islamic supremacist statements made then.The event featured

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Michael Barone writes a good column on the most putrid decade of the post-war period: Stuck in the 70's.Do you ever get the feeling, while listening to the political debate, that we're stuck in the '70s? The 1970s, that is, that slum of a decade which gave us the worst popular music, the ugliest hairstyles and clothes, and the most disastrous public policies of the 20th century. The decade in

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Hartley Steward doesn't mince words in the Toronto Sun:Paul Martin: Full to overflowing with the notion that the Liberal party was the rightful ruling party of Canada; fuelled by an awful ambition to somehow redeem his father and become PM; blessed with the skin of a rhinoceros; cursed with a mind that maddeningly simplified the most complicated of ideas; possessed of a vocabulary so intemperate

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From the Regina Leader Post:Stephen Harper's new government could face a $1-billion legal penalty after a European aerospace firm filed a claim for damages, citing political interference by the Liberals during the 2004 purchase of naval helicopters.Aerospace giant Agusta-Westland recently filed the $1-billion claim for damages in Federal Court, alleging its EH-101 helicopter didn't win the

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The crew of the shuttle Challenger, lost twenty years ago today.From President Reagan's address:For the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, "Give me a challenge, and I'll meet it with

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The Ottawa Citizen, via Nealenews:The Canadian Forces want to raise morale among troops deployed here by setting up the furthest flung coffee and doughnut franchise in the world: Tim Hortons Afghanistan.But the Canadian icon is balking at the idea of opening shop at Kandahar Air Field, where more than 2,000 Canadian soldiers are being deployed this month, saying it "is not part of our business

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It appears that John Kerry and Edward Kennedy may attempt a filibuster on the Alito nomination. This is political suicide. Alito's confirmation is strongly supported by the American people. The Democrats are split, with a significant number already indicating that they will vote in favour of Alito. All the Democrats will demonstrate is their own impotence and how much they are pandering to the

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As usual, the regular disclosure: I'm an atheist.And this is complete madness:An Italian judge heard arguments Friday on whether a small-town parish priest should stand trial for asserting that Jesus Christ existed.The priest's atheist accuser, Luigi Cascioli, says the Roman Catholic Church has been deceiving people for 2,000 years with a fable that Christ existed, and that the Rev. Enrico Righi

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David Miller, Toronto's leftwing (and extremely useless) Mayor is up for re-election in November. This wont help his re-election bid:Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong (Don Valley East), a critic of the mayor, has been asking questions about how Northstar Research Partners won a competition to do market research for several city departments. Veteran political strategist John Laschinger, Mr. Miller's

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"It's not a good thing to think that you have to earn everything, because that's an illusion."That quote pretty much sums up most of what is wrong with the political left. It was made by Professor David Weale at the University of Price Edward. Professor Weale is currently on suspension for bribing his students with an offer of a B- grade if they dropped out of his class.The Globe & Mail article

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Canadianna discusses the role of blogging in the media, beginning withDarcy of Dust my Broom points to a column in Winnipeg Free Press which, like so many others before it, dismisses political bloggers (conservative bloggers in particular) as the stereotypical 'guy in his pyjamas, typing away in the basement of his mother's home'.I really don't know why the MSM have this idea of political

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Al Gore has been spouting moonbat nonsense about oil companies bankrolling the Conservatives."The election in Canada was partly about the tar sands projects in Alberta," Gore said Wednesday while attending the Sundance Film Festival in Utah."And the financial interests behind the tar sands project poured a lot of money and support behind an ultra-conservative leader in order to win the election .

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Especially the useless David Miller, who should be top of the list for a free trip to the scrapheap of history.Toronto Mayor David Miller did his best prior to and throughout the long, eight-week election campaign to create panic amongst Torontonians toward Harper by saying revenue-sharing programs from the feds to the cities would evaporate like gasoline fumes should the Tories win.Miller has

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Hillarious stuff from Lorrie Goldstein in the Toronto Sun.Imagine if the folks who may soon be running for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada apply the same ethical standards to attacking each other as Paul Martin did to attacking Stephen Harper during the election.Ready? Here we go. Cue the ominous pounding of drums and an ugly picture of each candidate slowly coming into focus...

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Shiela Copps writes on the infighting in the Liberal party that may have cost them this election.The untold story of this election campaign is how many Liberals were hoping their own party would go down to defeat.But not for the reasons usually enumerated in the media. The fight between the Chretienites and Martinites was so divisive and bitter that it played out like the aftermath of an ugly

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We don't need Hollywood moonbats up here!Rosie O'Donnell says she and all her gay friends will be moving to Canada if Stephen Harper gets elected. "If you get another Bush up there, we're going to move to Canada," O'Donnell said. "We love Canada ... and if someone is raising gay marriage as an election issue, it's sad. But as [White House advisor] Karl Rove -- the most evil man in the universe --

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I doubt the result will be overturned, but it is interesting to read yet more about the Liberal dirty tactics.Harrison, who was first elected in 2004, said the Conservatives are suspicious about voter turnout levels that seemed to reach 100 per cent on some First Nations in the riding."We got reports of things like the Liberals driving around and threatening Natives that they wouldn't get their

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Rick Bell, Calgary Sun: Ontario blinksLicia Corbella, Calgary Sun: Leader thrilled with Quebec supportPaul Jackson, Calgary Sun: Darkness LiftsKerry Diotte, Edmonton Sun: Laurie has the last laughMindelle Jacobs, Edmonton Sun: Take a deep breath, you Chicken Littles!Paul Stanway, Edmonton Sun: Night of the living deadLarry Cornies, London Free Press: Harper rides blue Tory waveGreg Weston, Ottawa

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Despite this being a weaker minority than hoped for, the opposition parties will probably be smart enough not to trigger yet another election for at least a year. During that time, the Conservatives will run a steady ship, acting to disprove the scary right-wing extremist label that the Liberals have been so successful in hanging on them (including it would seem, yet again in this election). In

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12:13 Paul Martin concedes, and will resign the leadership of the Liberals.11:54 And the despicable Svend Robinson fails. Good!11:49 Olivia Chow wins, knocking off Tony Ianno. Big pickup for the NDP.11:27 There's no doubt that this is a weaker result than Tories were hoping for. I was looking forward to at least 130 seats. It is worrying that the Libs and NDP have a combined total at least 10

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By Douglas Fisher.And hopefully they stay fallen.

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tjic.com has examples of idiocy from the New York Times.The odds against meeting someone else at a party with your birthday are not 365 to 1. In a room with just 23 people, the chances that two of them will share the same birthday are better than even.And this howler:On the other hand, it is deeply satisfying to know that a Canadian farmer named McDonald has the postal code EIEIO As tjic says:

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Oh the irony.If Stephen Harper's Conservatives win tomorrow, their victory will no doubt be heralded as a seismic shift in Canadian politics „ as the dawn of a new conservative era.Actually, it will probably have more to do with the shifting loyalties of Canada's elite.Yes, it's all the fault of rich, older men. The perennial evil on Planet McQuaig have shifted their loyalties from the Liberals

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I've read in several places the question as to whether the Liberals and NDP could form a coalition which has more seats combined than the Conservatives, and in this way request the Governor-General to appoint them as the Government, thereby keeping the Conservatives out.Such a possibility is extremely unlikely, as this National Post column points out.In Canada, there has been only one time when

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And is nailed for it in this Globe & Mail article.With only the weekend left in the campaign, Mr. Martin has tried to rev up crowds in London, Kitchener and Brampton by telling them that he is in the same position now as he was late in the game in the 2004 campaign."Today, we're right where we were when we were going into the final weekend of the election the last time," he said to a crowd of

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Interested in a game of poker against theleaders of Canada's main political parties? According to a national survey bythe online poker website PokerRoom.com, you'd do well to be wary of PaulMartin: the majority of Canadians believe the prime minister would be the bestat bluffing his opponents, more than all the other federal leaders combined. The survey, conducted for PokerRoom.com through

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Michael Coren lists the many reasons in one column.This is one of the most important elections in the history of Canada and the future of the country is in the balance. There are some things about Stephen Harper that do not impress and some things about his party that cause concern.But whatever your reservations about the Tories and however much you have to hold your nose on Monday as you vote,

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The Globe & Mail endorsed the Conservatives in a tepid fashion. That hasn't stopped them from creating a fake Liberal surge in the pages of their newspaper. Obviously, a tighter race will mean more people tuning in to the MSM to keep up with the election, which will mean more revenue (and influence) for those MSM outlets. Sadly, non-partisan and objective professionalism should be considered a

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At small dead animals.At an all candidates meeting in Refrew, ON. ("up the valley" from Ottawa) last night, a WW2 vet (one Mr. Tomkins) stood up and asked the Liberal candidate, Don Lindsay, what plans the Liberals had to compensate handgun owners for seizing their private property. Instead of answering the question immediately, Lindsay started by spouting Martins favorite line: "The United

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And she does so effectively, pointing out how he is using women as pawns to try and get votes through fear. Paul Martin obviously thinks that women are incapable of rational thought, weak-minded creatures who can be swayed with a bit hysterical fear mongering. Fortunately, there are women like Ms. Ambrose."I am truly troubled and disappointed in Paul Martin’s fear mongering on women’s rights –

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From the Ignatieff campaign:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDefection of opponent “overdue” and “no surprise” to Ignatieff campaignEtobicoke Lakeshore, January 20, 2006 – The official defection of “Liberal of convenience” Ron Chyczij to the Stephen Harper camp in Etobicoke-Lakeshore is a welcome and long overdue event according to Ignatieff supporter and former MP Jean Augustine and Ignatieff campaign

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Stephen Taylor has the quotes from the two-faced Liberals, including Paul Martin, fake Catholic.Paul Martin on abortion:"I am personally against abortion on demand, but I believe it is very clear that there must be legislation brought in that will deal with what is becoming simply a mish-mash of approaches" - Paul Martin (Halifax Daily News, July 20, 1989)Further, according to the same edition of

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From The Toronto Star, a possible disaster for Ignatieff:In a last-minute blow to high-profile Liberal candidate Michael Ignatieff, the president of the party’s riding association in Etobicoke-Lakeshore swung his support today to Conservative rival John Capobianco in Monday’s federal election.The controversial process by which Ignatieff was acclaimed the candidate over local hopefuls ruled

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The New Scientist says that Paul Martin employs the most spin.According to a new computer algorithm, Prime Minister Paul Martin, of the Liberal Party, spins the subject matter of his speeches dramatically more than Conservative Party leader, Stephen Harper, and the New Democratic Party leader, Jack Layton.Spin, in this case, is defined as “text or speech where the apparent meaning is not the true

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Conservatives 21NDB 12Liberal 3Read the analysis.

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John Derringer takes a look at the three (worthless) reasons some people are still voting Liberal.A typical conversation with a voter who's on this program goes something like this: I ask, "Why is it you're so dead- set against Harper?" "Well, he's got a hidden agenda," comes the response. " What kind of agenda?" I press. "I don't know," states the Liberal, "it's hidden." There's only one way for

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Updates below:So this is how low the Liberals are willing to go and how desperate they are.The Liberal Campaign in the Saskatoon-Wanuskewin riding of Saskatchewan has reached a boiling point after the campaign office was caught calling in to a television show falsely accusing the Conservative candidate of sexual abuse. Tuesday night on Shaw Cable, a caller phoned in falsely accusing front-runner

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Michael Geist deconstructs Bulte's justifications.As Sam Bulte gears up for her fundraiser tonight (and Online Rights Canada holds its event at the Drake Hotel at the same time), several people have written to ask whether Sam Bulte really tried to argue that CRIA et al are not hosting a fundraiser for her as was reported in the Toronto Star. It turns out there is an MP3 version of that

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The BBC is running a "Have Your Say" on the Canadian elections. Of course, being the BBC, most of the comments are from the moonbat leftist end of the political spectrum. If you want to see a Liberal's wet dream, amble on over and read all the Scary Stephen Harper comments.

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Buzz says VOTE PALPATINE and stop the imperialistic Tories!

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Buzz says VOTE KLAN, and stop the racist Conservatives!

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MADD are the latest group to get pissed off at the Liberals arrogant behaviour:Mothers Against Drunk Driving has accused a Nova Scotian Liberal candidate of trivializing their message, "Friends don't let friends drive drunk."Gary Richard, the Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley candidate, is using the slogan "Friends don't let friends vote Conservative" in his campaign pamphlets.The

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Are you feeling toasty, Sam?Sarmite Bulte, the Liberal MP running for re-election in Toronto's Parkdale-High Park riding, is the focus of what may be the most written-about controversy in this election, though many can be forgiven for not knowing anything about it. Most of the coverage Bulte has received has been in the online world of blogs, where in recent weeks she has become the focus of an

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Vote for the Bloc to defeat the separatists, says Buzz.Interesting thought, I mused, while sticking my head in the blender to get a haircut. It just might work....Meanwhile, Andrew Coyne remains disturbingly sane.

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The Tamil Tigers, listed as terrorists by the US, UK and Australia (amongst others), and with good reason, would also be listed as a terrorist organisation by the Tories, according to Peter Mackay.A Conservative government would add the Tamil Tigers to Canada's list of outlawed terrorist groups, deputy leader and public safety critic Peter MacKay said yesterday."The short answer is yes," he said

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Demonstrating once again that corruption is an accepted part of left wing ideology, The Toronto Pravda has editorialised its support for the Liberals.But on a wide range of issues about which the Star cares deeply, the Liberal vision and program come out ahead. And Martin himself has gotten a lot right since the June 2004 election, even hobbled by a minority.Those "issues" include continued

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Unbelievable!Paul Martin's Liberals have issued an "urgent" call to Privy Council Office staff for their support and donations in the run-up to the Jan. 23 vote.Liberal party president Mike Eizenga mailed bright yellow teledispatches directly to the office addresses of employees of the PCO, which is supposed to remain non-partisan and non-political.The memo lays out the Liberal election platform

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You have our sympathy Anne. Not.The comments from Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan were a further indication of disarray in the ruling Liberal Party which is trailing badly in polls ahead of the Jan. 23 elections.McLellan said she has spent too much time defending Martin to her constituents in the western Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta."It's the national campaign and they've done something

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SES: Con 35.8%; Lib 29.6%Strategic Counsel: Con 42%; Lib 24%

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