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Saturday, June 28, 2008

CANADA'S REX MURPHY ON JAMES HANSEN AND GLOBAL WARMING - ALSO COMMENTS ON QUOTING CATO INSTITUTE

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY REX MURPHY IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL "Truth may enter the world by many doors, but she is never esc...

ARE THE BRITISH ROYALS WORTH WHAT THEY COST?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH Well, just imagine the alternative, which is, of course, where head of state and h...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

MACCAIN MAN CHARLIE BLACK AND HIS COMMENTS ON THE HELPFULNESS OF ANOTHER TERRORIST INCIDENT

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MICHAEL TOMASKY IN THE GUARDIAN Michael Tomasky, I take some exception to your argument. It is true that huma...
Monday, June 23, 2008

COMMENTS ON A SERIES ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS AND HOW IT IS TREATED

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A SERIES IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL I do wish that we could wave a magic wand to eliminate the plague of mental illn...

AFGHANISTAN PRISON BREAK SHOWS GAP IN INTELLIGENCE ACCORDING TO CANADA'S JOHN MANLEY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Yes, indeed, Mr. Manley, but I’m afraid the gap is in the intelligence is in peo...

CUBA: MEMORIES OF ELIAN AND THE MAYOR OF MIAMI STILL PLAYING NASTY POLITICAL GAMES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE The mayor, like so many of those crazed exiles in Miami, was in his efforts to keep Elian...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

MCCAIN'S FREE-TRADE BELIEFS MEET SUPPLY-SIDE REALITIES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JEFFREY SIMPSON IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Jeffrey Simpson offers a good marshalling of the facts. There a...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF MCCAIN'S OFFSHORE-DRILLING PROPOSAL

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY HANNAH STRANGE IN THE TIMES You are exactly right on this, Hannah, it is hard to understand just what McCain hopes t...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

THE INSANE CLAIM THAT BUSH HAS MADE THE WORLD A SAFER PLACE

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TWO POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN BY OLIVER KAMM Safer for whom, Oliver Kamm? For the more than 600,000 murdered by Bush in I...

BUSH'S READING SKILLS AND LEGACY GRADUATES IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JONATHAN FREEDLAND IN THE GUARDIAN 'Jonathan Freedland clearly fails to understand irony. Bush's ...

WHAT HILLARY WON BY LOSING AND THE CLINTONS' BELIEF OBAMA WILL LOSE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES The Clintons' egos each pretty much tip the scales into the range beyond any instrumen...
Friday, June 13, 2008

JOHN MCCAIN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST SUPREME COURT DECISION FOR PRISONERS IN GUANTANAMO

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NYT McCain is a disgrace. You might think that a man with his history would be more sensitive in these matters, ...

THE ANNIVERSARY OF ROBERT KENNEDY'S DEATH AND AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLOIT IT FOR PROPAGANDA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY STEPHEN KINZER IN THE GUARDIAN Attempting to disguise his efforts as analysis, Stephen Kinzer here offers rea...

RIOTS IN SOUTH KOREA OVER MAD-COW BEEF IMPORTS AND A RIDICULOUS COLUMN CONCERNING THEM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARCUS GEE IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL What a silly column this is. Marcus Gee here displays, under intense...

DION HOLDING OUT AGAINST HIS LIBERALS ON AN ELECTION

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY LAWRENCE MARTIN IN THE TORONTO GLOB AND MAIL Dion is a fine man in many respects, and he might have made a go...
Thursday, June 12, 2008

FURTHER ON MCCAIN AND COLD-WAR MENTALITY: PUTIN HAS NOT STARTED A NEW COLD WAR

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POSTED RESPONSE TO COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES Mr. Cox, You've written complete rubbish here. You may not like Putin's...

MCCAIN ON COMMUNIST PRISONS AND HIS COLD-WAR MENTALITY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES Mentally, McCain apparently still lives in the Cold War. In recent comments a...

Al QAEDA ON THE RUN?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JASON BURKE IN THE GUARDIAN First, to this day, there is no indisputable proof that al Qaeda even exists. Y...

CINDY AND MICHELLE

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY HANNAH STRANGE IN THE TIMES Michelle is vibrant, intelligent, and educated. She would make a delightful First Lady. ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

ISRAEL'S AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN LABELS BRITAIN AS ANTI-ISRAEL

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH We must remember another Israeli ambassador recently called Jimmy Carter, the most decent...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

FURTHER TO OBAMA CAN BE ORDINARY NOW AND WHEN SOMETHING IS NEW WITHIN LIMITS AND THE NATURE OF AMERICAN POLITICS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOKS IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES John Powers, Have you never heard of something being new within limits? I...

THOUGHTS AROUND OBAMA CAN BE ORDINARY NOW AND THE FOOLISHNESS OF COMPARING CLARENCE THOMAS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES BY CLIVE CROOKS This column of Clive Crooks is remarkably well-thought-out. It's the ...

HARPER AND A NEW SERIES OF ATTACK ADS AGAINST DION

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Harper is absolutely superb at one thing. And that is being nasty. He reminds me...

HILLARY CLINTON AND WOMEN ADVANCING

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN Women in all advanced countries have been progressing enormously during my lifetime. I am an int...
Friday, June 06, 2008

A READING BY THOMAS FRIEDMAN ON A GREEN WORLD

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY ADITYA CHARABORTTY IN THE GUARDIAN Anyone who goes to a Thomas Friedman reading deserves what he or she gets....

SPECULATION ON THE ROLE OF CLINTON WITH OBAMA AND THE SENSE-OF-ENTITLEMENT CROWD

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY HANNAH STRANGE IN THE TIMES I think your speculation, Hannah, about a post like healthcare for Clinton, plus some ca...
Thursday, June 05, 2008

THE DISMISSAL OF SEVERAL SENIOR AIR FORCE OFFICIALS - IT MAY BE MORE THAN IT IS MADE TO APPEAR

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE There may well be far more serious matters involved here than the blog writer captures. F...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

SHOULD HILLARY CLINTON BE CONSIDERED AS OBAMA'S RUNNING MATE? AND WHAT THE OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT MEANS

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY JOHN IBBITSON IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Selecting Hillary as his running mate would prove a catastrophe ...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

RUSSIAN JOURNALISM AND CRITICS OF PUTIN LOSING THEIR JOBS, A CASE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' SMIRKY SELF-SATISFACTION

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES And how is it any different in America? You really sound terribly self-satisfied reporting matter...
Monday, June 02, 2008

DEMOCRATS' BEHAVIOR IN THE PRIMARIES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES This behavior is not the behavior of a party. It is the behavior of an indivi...

SHOULD WE PUNISH PARENTS FOR THEIR CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOR?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH There's the old saying that parenting is the biggest job for which no one gets any ed...

IRAN'S RIGHT TO NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT TECHNOLOGY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Indeed, enrichment is part of nuclear technology. Iran has every right to exerci...

ONTARIO AND QUEBEC GET TOGETHER ON A CAP-AND-TRADE SYSTEM FOR EMISSIONS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Finally, an act with which I can agree with McGuinty. Harper's weird little ...

REFLECTIONS ON TRUFFAUT AND JULES AND JIM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY PETER PRESTON IN THE GUARDIAN This era of film is filled with such wonderful memories. Today, it seems we are...
Sunday, June 01, 2008

ELIZABETH THE FIRST AND HER LASTING INFLUENCE - NOTHING TO DO WITH MYTH

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY NEEL MUKHERJEE IN THE GUARDIAN Neel Mukherjee, I truly feel you've missed the essence of Elizabeth altog...

CHINA AND DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNIST PARTY BUYING OFF MIDDLE CLASS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JOHN LEE IN THE GUARDIAN But, John Lee, this is always what is done as nations progress to modernity. Eventua...