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Not a Girl You’d Bring Home to Mom…

Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

… unless it’s Mom Boucher.
- Credit Dominic Leblanc -
Wow, Maxime, you really got into it over this one. I guess we know why there are no ministers in the Harper government, just Steve running the show. It’s because when one of them strays too far from the pack, they screw up so badly that it [...]

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Conservative Ideal: Central Planning

Posted in Alberta on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Health care is one of the things that defines what it means to be Canadian. Or system of universal health care, the guarantee that every Canadian has access to the heath care that they require is one of the reasons that I am proudest to be a citizen of this nation. Now, whether or not [...]

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Comeback

Posted in Books, USA on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I am currently reading “Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again” (because how else can we figure out their evil plans) by David Frum, who was at UBC a while back. I like the book, and it has some interesting propositions in it, like “Why don’t we just completely redefine the Republican Party to start doing [...]

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Carbon Tricks

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was listening to “The Current” this morning on the way to the airport to fly back to Vancouver, and there was a discussion of the Liberal Carbon Tax proposal. It was interesting for a number of reasons. One, I am now irrevocably convinced that the Carbon Tax is the right thing to do, and [...]

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Charting Clinton’s Course

Posted in Democrat, USA on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I would think that it would be difficult to find apart that is that much more dysfunctional than the current Liberal Party (although things seem to be improving). However, it turns out all I had to do was look a couple of miles to the south, where we have the Democrats.
Now, the Liberal leadership race [...]

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BlogLaunch!

Posted in Uncategorized on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So, I’m back. After almost an entire year of darkness, I am returning to the blogosphere. Why?
The first part is personal. Mostly, I’m bored, and I like to argue and share my opinions, and this seems to be a decent way to do that. As another facet, I find that writing things down helps me [...]

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