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Thursday, July 31, 2008

GUNS AND AMERICA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES The gun issue in America is complex and bizarre. First, it is clear, if yo...

THE NONSENSE OF EXPERIENCE IN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY JOHN IBBITSON IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL These claims about experience and inexperience are always laugha...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

ELECTION ISSUES IGNORED IN IMAGE CONTEST

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES Clive Crook is absolutely correct, but he seems to imply that things have ...

ALBERTA BOOM MEANS FEWER FINISH SCHOOL

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL It's called making hay while the sun shines. It makes perfect sense and is a r...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION AND THE NEED FOR AN INTERNATIONAL FRONT: IGNORING THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY BENNETT RAMBERG IN THE GUARDIAN Bennett Ramberg quite clearly ignores the elephant in the room. Israel. Israe...

OBAMA AND THE AUDACITY OF HUBRIS FROM A COLUMNIST WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY REX MURPHY IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Rex Murphy, I've always enjoyed you as host of Cross Country Ch...
Friday, July 25, 2008

OBAMA'S BERLIN SPEECH: SOME SPARK, A LOT OF DISAPPOINTMENT

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES There are some fine phrases, but I am disappointed overall. Obama, sadly, felt the need to...

THERE IS NO MORE HOPELESS EXPRESSION THAN "WE MUST REMEMBER" WHEN IT COMES TO PAST HORRORS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY INAYAT BUNGLAWALA IN THE GUARDIAN Sorry, but there is no more hopeless expression in human affairs than, ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

AMERICA'S PAST CLOSE RELATIONS WITH GERMANY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES There are many aspects of this relationship you have missed, including some quite dark one...

THE DILEMMA OF OPPRESSED MUSLIM WOMEN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY NESRINE MALIK IN THE GUARDIAN Yes, but there is nothing unique about the circumstances of Muslim women trappe...
Monday, July 21, 2008

FORECASTING THE RESULTS OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND THE BIG UNKNOWN THIS YEAR

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES As one whose job for years involved making (economic) forecasts, I can tru...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

IRAQI VETERANS AND THEIR AD ABOUT "FINISHING THE JOB"

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES “Finish the job”? What “job” would that be exactly? The purpose of this invasion has never...

OBAMA BLAMES THE RIGHT WING FOR THE ATTACKS ON HIS WIFE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES Obama's right, of course. The American Right has a large number of truly unpleasant pe...

CONSPIRACIES AND 9/11 AND CHARLIE BROOKER'S SHABBY ARTICLE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DAN HIND IN THE GUARDIAN Charlie Brooker's shabby approach to discrediting the idea of conspiracies looks...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

AFGHANISTAN: ITS TRUE MEANING AND WHY CANADIANS ARE THERE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL We are only there to please the Pentagon. Ottawa, having turned the US down on M...

OBAMA AND THE NEW YORKER CARTOON COVER

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES I think you've got it quite wrong here, Clive Crook. The New Yorker is...
Friday, July 11, 2008

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND OLIVER KAMM

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES "...cognitive dissonance - the way we change facts in our mind until the...

THE ISLAMIC THREAT

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY SOUMAYA GHANNOUSHI IN THE GUARDIAN The Islamic Threat is the creation of American Neo-cons. That fact alone s...

GLOBAL WARMING AND G-8 BREAKTHROUGH

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES Wouldn't it be the right thing to do for the advanced countries to mo...

HOW SHOULD WE HANDLE IRAN?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Handle Iran? I'm not aware of anything in need of "handling." Iran minds it...
Saturday, July 05, 2008

REFLECTIONS ON THE ORIGINS AND MEANING OF AMERICA'S INDEPENDENCE DAY

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July 7, 2008 REFLECTIONS ON THE ORIGINS AND MEANING OF AMERICA’S INDEPENDENCE DAY Why no on should be surprised when America behaves as an i...

CHINA AND THE FAILURE OF OLYMPIC BOYCOTT EFFORTS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL Sorry, but human rights do mean something in China. It is simply ignorant to say o...

LIBERTY NOT AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN THE LEFT AND RIGHT?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY WILL HUTTON IN THE GUARDIAN Yours is a somewhat muddy argument. It depends clearly on the definition of ...

RUSSIA'S SUPPOSED THREATENING AND BULLYING

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY WILLIAM HARRISON IN THE GUARDIAN "Unable to offer Ukraine a positive alternative to NATO, the Kremlin is...

THE STORY ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN'S ASSAULTING A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL IN NICARAGUA IN 1987

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY HANNAH STRANGE IN THE TIMES Well, the man who reports this ugly incident is an American senator, and he is a ...

THE ISSUE OF FAITH SCHOOLS IN BRITAIN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY ZOE WILLIAMS IN THE GUARDIAN "...the competitive taper was lit..." " [faith schools] their dis...

THE NEW YORK TIMES SAYS AMERICA'S TECHNIQUES IN GUANTANAMO COPIED FROM CHINA OF THE 1950s

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES Oh, here we go again, blame the Chinese for something. Who cares, even if this report were...

CONCERNING OBAMA'S SHIFTS IN VIEW

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JONATHON FREEDLAND IN THE GUARDIAN The first comment is right on the mark. My only objection to it is that th...

THE AMERICAN CLAP-TRAP VERSION OF HITLER'S STAB IN THE BACK: THE SMEARING OF HILLARY CLINTON

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN Sorry, but yours is a ridiculous article. Hillary was not smeared. If anything is a smear, it is...
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...