Entries from the blog quebecois tagged with 'politics'
Cat Fight In The Court Of The Sun King
Thomas Lifson: The coming weekend will be a painful one for Desiree Rogers, the beautiful former White House Social Secretary who discovered that outshining Michelle Obama is a very, very bad idea. After following the Obamas from Chicago to DC...
Operation Hubris
Jonah Goldberg: Look closely at Obama’s State of the Union address, and you see not a progressive colossus poised to conquer all in his path, but a mostly spent force, desperately trying to figure out how to get anything done...
When Liberals Attack
Offbeat Empire: Increasingly, I've started recognizing this kind of behavior for what it is: privilege-checking as a form of internet sport. It's a kind of trolling, with all the politics I agree with, but motivations and execution that turns my...
A Prediction
I called the election for Romney on September 12, on the heels of the debacle in Libya, and I see no need to change my mind. Mitt will win easily, with 300+ Electoral College votes. The happiest person to see...
Make No Mistake: Beneath That Melted Candle-Wax Face, It's A "Tête De Cement"
Gordon Laxer: If you think B.C. opposition to the Northern Gateway pipeline is fierce, wait until you see Quebecer’s opposition to letting “dirty tarsands oil” into and through their province. Quebec holds the key to such a pipeline. You can’t...
Anti-American Savages of the Post-American World
I nearly stole the whole damn thing. These excerpts barely do it justice. Go read. Daniel Greenfield: Let us dispense with any pretense that if we do criminalize defamation of religion or prosecute Mohammed cartoons as a hate crime,...
The Scarecrow of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Daniel Greenfield: Biden's ego has made it impossible for him to understand the uses he has been put to. And that is part of the joke. Joe Biden wasn't selected despite his penchant for saying stupid things in public....
Of Chicken Sandwiches, Unintended Consequences . . . And Revolutions
Cold Fury: One more time: this ain’t about chicken. It isn’t even about gay marriage. It’s about straws, and camels’ backs, and being absolutely fed to the gills with being lectured, hectored, harassed, shouted down, mocked, and ignored. It’s about...
Twilight of the West
Just before last week’s Eurovision finale in Azerbaijan, the Daily Mail in London reported that the Spanish entrant, Pastora Soler, had been told to throw the competition “because the cash-strapped country can’t afford to host the lavish event next...
Big Lies In Politics
Thomas Sowell: The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy them, and only...
Julia's Circle Of Life
Iowahawk's parody of Obama's wildly-misnamed composite girlfriend lucky subject, "The Life Of Julia."...
Change -- And Some Hope
Victor Davis Hanson: Rather than Obama destroying the economy, there is a sense emerging that he is merely restraining it. Should Obama lose in November, there will be the greatest collective sigh of relief since 1980 and a yell...
It Was the Power, Stupid!
I have a confession to make that may upset readers. I was neutral in the Republican primaries, but especially interested in one fact: who would take off the gloves and run a “war room” campaign in the fashion of Bill...
This Sounds Like A Job For Bond -- James Bond
OTTAWA, ON-- Newly elected NDP leader Thomas Mulcair cackled in insane glee today as he watched Peggy Nash’s suspended body dangle perilously above a tank of Amazonian piranhas at his secret mansion in the south of France. “So Nash, you...
Hobbling The Herd
Ottawa Citizen: The federal government can't recruit enough disabled people into the public service and should develop new strategies that will attract them to federal work, says Canada's staffing watchdog. Maria Barrados, president of the Public Service Commission, said the...
The Business Of Government
Publius takes a look at the apparently intractable problem of ever-expanding government: Having children spend a large portion of their time being indoctrinated in the latest environmentalist propaganda is not education. It does, however, give employment to teachers who have...
Carving Up The Thanksgiving Turkey
Jay Stone, Postmedia: The Ides of March, George Clooney's cynical drama about an American presidential election, is an entertainingly bleak story of backstabbing, betrayal, lies, corruption and sexual misconduct in the camp of a brightly idealistic politician who is running...
The Progressive Crisis
Ace Of Spades HQ: You can ask your average person: Do you wish people would exercise more? Take more of an interest in their health? Stop eating too much? Stop smoking? Stop drinking so much? Stop gambling away their kids'...
I Just Threw Up In My Pants A Little Bit
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hm. I heard Jack Layton whining away on TV about the lack of women in Harper's new cabinet. Oddly, though, I can find...
Wretched Ingrates
Toronto Star: They aren’t ready to hear this yet, but the anti-poverty activists who work tirelessly to promote the interests of low-income Canadians need to ask why so many of them voted for Stephen Harper last week. They won’t like...
One Day In The War Room
JSOC CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT CLEARANCE G2 REQUIRED [ . . . ] SECDEF Quiet everyone, the satellite feed is coming in. This infrared image is from the inside of chopper 1. SECSTATE Wait a minute... is this SEAL team 6? COMGEN...
The Farce Is Strong With This One
The Province: I am disgusted to be a new Canadian. Although I felt considerable satisfaction when I cast my ballot Monday for the first time ever in a Canadian election, all pleasure at participating in my country's electoral process vanished...
Telephone Sex (2)
This one was the first that gave me some faint hope that we might be able to make a go of it. The song was good, with coherent lyrics. We played it well (you'll have to excuse the minute of...
How Little Old Me Almost Threw The Canadian Election
Toronto Star: Facing charges of political sabotage by the powerful head of Sun Media Corporation, the Conservative Party has denied wrongdoing but cut ties with a key political strategist. The move was made to distance the Stephen Harper campaign...
Misty Watercolor Memories
Mark Steyn, writing in Maclean's in 2006 about the new "Canadian" politician, Mikey Ignatieff: I've met him just once, a decade or so back, at a dinner party in London for Canadian expats. He left early, telling me he found...
He's A Poet And Doesn't Even Know It
In trying to explain himself when bombing foreign lands, It behooves a modern president to keep his prose in hand. One little slip in lexicon accounting for the rubble Will end up in congressional investigative trouble. Ohhhhhh! Overseas-contingencies-kinetic-aliocious I must...
Blog Quebecois Endorses New Democrat Loon!
Though I've been specifically warned by my probation officer to stay out of Winnipeg civic politics, I can hold my tongue no longer after seeing this shocking video of its racist brute of a mayor: That tears it. I'm throwing...
What Caused Me To Have Second Thoughts
P.J. O'Rourke: I think Obama is losing a lot of people in the US because he’s got a know it all, lecturing sort of attitude. He’s a capable public speaker but he talks down to his audience constantly, and that’s...
You Sure 'Bout That, Preston?
Globe and Mail: The most frequently televised image of the U.S. Congress is the congressional hearing: senators sitting in judge-like dignity on a dais, interrogating some brilliant or villainous (but always interesting) witness. The most frequently televised image of the...
The Varieties of Liberal Enthusiasm
Kathy Shaidle points to an interesting essay in City Journal about the messaniac nature of modern American politics. Religion has long been a powerful force in American politics, of course, for good and ill. The difference with the more traditional...
Driving Ziss Jaffy
National Post: Helena Guergis is rejecting allegations, made by the Liberals in the House of Commons, that her husband, former MP Rahim Jaffer, used her government car and chauffeur and was allowed to use her parliamentary office to conduct his...
Frankly, I Think That Maude Barlow's Got A Better Chance
The Victoria Times Colonist floats a dark horse for Governor General: Finally, what about Ujjal Dosanjh? He would have to resign as MP for Vancouver South. But no member of Canada's Sikh community has ever served as governor general. Perhaps...
Why Does Bob Rae Hate Colored Folk So?
The Globe and Mail: Liberal attempts to ignite muffled anti-abortion sentiment on Conservative benches and foster doubts about the social policies of Prime Minister Stephen Harper have been foiled from within. A motion by Liberal MP Bob Rae demanding that...
He's A Cossack In The Sack, Too
I don't know why I didn't think of it before, but one of those "Rate My Teacher" sites must have something on Michael Ignatieff. And what do you know? He also attracted comments such as: His friends call him iggie,...
Olympics Shocka: Vonn Out/Obama In!
The International Olympic Committee announced Monday that it has taken back the gold medal previously awarded to American skier Lindsey Vonn and given it to U.S. President Barack Obama. More....
Obama's Eleven
What a tragedy. Iowahawk is in a terrible rut, monotonously hitting yet another one out of the park. God help us all if he ever discovers steroids. Spend me to the moon, and let me play around with TARP, Give...
State Of The Union
If you want snarky, funny remarks on Obama's SOTU address, Ace of Spades is the place to be when he throws open the floor for comments. I'll post the exact link when it comes up. Link here. (By sheer coincidence,...
Blessing In Disguise
Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe: [Senator-elect Scott] Brown ran explicitly against Obama’s domestic agenda, above all the radical healthcare overhaul that the president has made his priority. Not long ago, such a strategy would have been dismissed as suicidal....
But EastWestward, Look, The Land Is Bright!
I think it might be the Young Pioneers' production of the peppy musical number, "To God's Knees." * * A joke that Ronald Reagan liked to tell: A commissar was touring a collective farm and asked one of the...
Um, Margaret Thatcher? Lucretia MacEvil?
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday Who could hang a name on you? The Beast of Brampton?...
Never Let It Be Said
that we haven't anticipated this very situation: Topic 357 - Tax Information for Parents of Kidnapped Children You may claim a kidnapped child as your dependent if the following requirements are met: The child must be presumed by law enforcement...
An Experiment In Ecumenical Outreach
Colleen Carroll Campbell: Once again belying its stated purpose of "promotion and protection of human rights around the globe," the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution last week straight out of George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984." The measure,...
Mama Always Told Me
Never play poker against a man named "Doc"; and, Never date a woman with open sores; and, Canada.com: Union leaders were on Parliament Hill Tuesday pushing for the federal government to adopt a "Buy Canadian" policy before it rolls out...
"Her Not Unsubstantial Butt"
Ian Robinson: Jake did not whine. He did not say it wasn't fair that the other kid was bigger. He didn't say football players should be handicapped to make things "fair" by, perhaps, tying the giant nose guard's right foot...
Editing Their Way To Oblivion
Michael S. Malone: The traditional media is playing a very, very dangerous game. With its readers, with the Constitution, and with its own fate. The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just...
The Great Wall Street Swindle
CBC Sunday ran a long documentary on the fiscal crisis in the States. What a fine piece of journalism that was, featuring an interview with the famously unbiased George Soros. Host Evan Solomon was rather coy, too, about what caused...
Carry On, Babs!!!
barbrastreisand.com: John McCain has served this country. No one in this election is denying him that. But his selection of Governor Palin has demonstrated that he is willing to put his desperation to win this election above the welfare of...
Nowhere Man
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The Idiossey
Iowahawk knocks one out of the Colosseum one of those Greek amphitheater thingies his misspent years of Classics Studies: Speak to me, O Muse, of this resourceful man who strides so boldly upon the golden shrine at Invescos, Between Ionic...
Happy Clappy People
This is a remarkable achievement, No, not Dion's proposed "Green Shift" tax program -- which is approximately the stupidest idea ever. I refer to the director of this commercial, who accomplished the previously-thought impossible task of getting politicians to...
The Banality Of Evil
Andrew Coyne, editor of Maclean’s, live-blogging the farcical Mark Steyn "trial" by the B.C. HRC: 2:37 PM We’re going through an interview Awan gave on Mike Duffy Live. He tells Duffy that this isn’t a case of free speech versus...
A Rose By Any Other Name
A few years ago I mused how unlikely it was that a well-known Islamic terrorist group would take its name from a pig's hindquarters. It now seems that Hamas has caught up with my logic, and is taking a serious...
Stop The Presses!
Forget your Burmas; piss off, you whining Chinese quake victims! We've got real news here: Barack Obama called a woman "sweetie"! Clearly, it was inappropriate for Obama to address the female reporter as "Sweetie." This trivializes her professional status...
Let's Play 'Moral Equivalence!' It's Fun!
Globe and Mail: If Canada doesn't act to protect human rights in the case of Omar Khadr, the country is no better than terrorists, Liberal Senator Romeo Dallaire told a parliamentary subcommittee Tuesday. The former general, one of the most...
With The Mice Entrée, The Cats Will Play
On Deadline: WANTED: Russian President Vladimir Putin's bodyguards are soliciting offers to provide 3,200 "white, female, laboratory mice ... between sixteen and eighteen grams" before the end of the year, according to Agence France-Presse. Why does the Federal Guard Service...
H.U.A.C.
I was perfectly happy writing songs about girls and stuff, but once every hundred or so songs, I would remember that this was supposed to be a political band, like The Clash. Well, sort of like The Clash, but stuck...
And eBay Saw That It Was Good
I admit, I was skeptical at first, but this uncanny image of Barack Obama burnt (or possibly stenciled) onto a piece of toast is proof enough for me. It is The Sign we were promised. O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!...
It Takes A Woman
to write an article like this, because a man would never dare. Charlotte Allen of the Independent Women's Forum plays agent provocateur in the Washington Post: Here's Agence France-Presse reporting on a rally for Sen. Barack Obama at the University...
A Shot Across The Bow
I've never been one for "linkage" -- using one field of trade as leverage in an unconnected trade dispute. Like, say, tying energy exports to a resolution of the softwood lumber issue. For one thing, ownership of natural resources (with...
Khadr-ectomy
Toronto Star: OTTAWA-The United States returned up to a dozen children and teenagers held as "combatants" in Guantanamo Bay to their respective countries, and might well act if it received a request from Canada to return Omar Khadr, says his...
Doctor Death
National Post: Several Conservatives are objecting to David Suzuki's suggestion that politicians who ignore the science behind climate change should be jailed. "It's environmental fascism," said Ontario MPP Randy Hillier, who has previously cast doubt on the theory of global...
When The Lady Smiles
she looks like a barracuda, frankly. It's been widely reported that Hillary Clinton has selected a new campaign song. which, if true, would have been a decidedly odd choice. It's called "When The Lady Smiles," and it's by the Dutch...
A Small Price To Pay
Times OnLine: Humanity faces oblivion if it fails to reach agreement on global warming, Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary General, said yesterday as the US and the European Union continued to scuffle over a successor to the ten-year-old Kyoto...
This One's For You, Irene
Canada.com: OTTAWA - Conservative MP James Moore denied Wednesday that he looked at a picture of a "scantily clad" woman on his laptop computer while at his seat in the House of Commons. "I don't know where this attack is...
Profiles In Courage
I was playing with my Xbox a few days ago and eventually wandered upstairs for coffee and a sandwich when I turned on the news to learn that someone claiming to have a bomb had taken hostages at Hillary!'s New...
Frumpton * Comes Alive!
I'm thinking that this could be an invaluable resource in the year ahead: zombietime's Gallery of Unflattering Hillary Clinton photos. *...
J'Excuse!
Back in the days of the Mulroney Government, a report on women and the criminal justice system was commissioned. The purpose of this was to funnel a few million in salaries to the otherwise-unemployable feminist hacks who wrote it. The...
Possible Breakthrough In Iraq?
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: "At this point -- with 95 percent of the American public hopelessly lost in his video address -- bin Laden the anticapitalist unveils the only solution that could possibly alienate the remaining 5 percent: religion. Your...
What To Do?
cnews: Liberal MP David McGuinty, the Opposition environment critic, excoriated the Conservative government for its secrecy. "This is the kind of subterfuge and hidden agenda that the government has on such an important issue," said McGuinty. "It's not intending to...
In Small Brown Envelopes, I Presume
They lay one egg (each year). They put their excrement in one place. They hide their excrement. Michael Ignatieff, musing on the Atlantic puffin as a possible new animal symbol for the Liberal Party. Really. Then again, it does...
Joek
An old southern Baptist country preacher had a teenage son, and it was getting time the boy should give some thought to choosing a profession. Like many young men, the boy didn't really know what he wanted to do, and...
tHE diONaLYzeR
Toronto Star: Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams and Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion hail from different parties, but they have one thing in common - neither wants to see the re-election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In that spirit - call it...
Suddenly, My World Makes No Sense
The noted warmonger Mark Steyn admits all is lost: After valiant efforts by American opinion-makers to blame the bridge collapse on Bush, the war in Iraq and global warming, the truth may defy such glib pigeonholing: Pounded and strained by...
Free Peace Speech Racket
Via, um, someone who I forget and a commenter at SDA, a doubleheader from City Journal. Bruce Bawer: George Orwell would have understood the attraction of privileged young people to the Peace Racket. "Turn-the-other-cheek pacifism," he observed in 1941, "only...
The Dion-key Brays
Toronto Star: Canada is in secret talks with the United States that could lead to the bulk export of water south of the border, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion charges. "The pressure coming from our American friends to remove Canadian water...
You Kids Play Nice When We've Got Company Over!
Editor & Publisher: It was only a couple of people who cheered and they, thankfully, are not among the people who get a say in news play. But obviously news staff shouldn't be cheering or jeering the day's news, particularly...
Coderre Goes For The Jugular
CTV brought Mike Duffy in yesterday to discuss the Cabinet shakeup. Among those commenting on Gordon O'Connor's removal from Defence were the NDP's Dawn "Big Guns! HUGE GUNS!!!" Black and Opposition Labour critic Denis Coderre. Black's take on things was,...
Greasing The Slippery Slope
Note how the "progressives" are warming to the idea. Give them a year or two and it'll become human rights orthodoxy, on par with holy homosexuality: When same-sex marriage was first raised as a possibility, social conservatives quickly condemned it...
Solidarity Forever
Toronto Star: In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labour union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective...
She Bangs
CTV: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has spent more than $20 billion so far on his military spending spree. But the Opposition is accusing Harper of an American-style defence buildup that seems "more attuned to offensive warfare" than peacekeeping. [. ....
Days Of Thunder
Susan Delacourt tut-tutting in The Star: Soldiers, hockey gear and race cars are not just the stuff of young boys' wish lists any more -- they're also symbols that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government is deliberately choosing to embrace. What's...
I've Got No Dog
in this fight: Anti-Syrian Lebanese minister Ahmad Fatfat said Friday he sued a television news anchor after she made unwitting remarks on air that he could be the next politician to be killed. While covering the bomb blast that killed...
Equalization Made E-Z
Plaintiffs: Mr. Rodney MacDonald, Halifax, NS Mr. Danny Williams, St. Johns, NL Defendant: Honest Steve's Auto Sales, 24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON Summary of Claim: In February of 2005, Plaintiffs visited the used car dealership located at 24 Sussex...
Hideous Harpy Hattacks Harper!
Proud To Be Canadian: In a meeting of the combined foreign affairs committee and defence committee in Ottawa, the failed former leader of the you’ve got to be kidding party, Alexa McDonough, just called our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, "dumb...
Our Selfless MSM
The Star: As Prime Minister Stephen Harper prepared to arrive in war-torn Afghanistan, the orders from his security detail to reporters were clear - don't get between the Prime Minister and his team of bodyguards. In other words, don't get...
Oaths? We Don't Need No Steenking Oaths!
Joel at Proud To Be Canadian has dug up a lot of information on Jeff Monaghan, the self-styled "anarchist" (I'll put it in quotes, as he denied the description tonight on the CBC) and Environment Canada flunky who is under...
Yeah, This Should Work
French artists paste giant posters of, from left, a Palestinian Muslim cleric, an Arab Christian priest and an Israeli Jewish rabbi on a separation barrier in the West Bank. The artists are part of the organization "Face2Face," and they hang...
Look What's Just Come Over The Telegraph!
CBC: The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a legal ban on reporting early vote results on federal election nights in regions of the country where the polls are still open. In a 5-4 decision, the top court ruled the...
So It's OK To Call Them 'Wogs' Again?
National Post: Canada's use of the term "visible minorities" to identify people it considers susceptible to racial discrimination came under fire at the United Nations yesterday - for being racist. In a report on Ottawa's efforts to eliminate racial discrimination...
'What kind of crack-smoking moron . . .
...phones up the Globe to share every single element of an internal strategic debate over the Liberal ad strategy designed to blunt the effect of a highly successful Conservative ad campaign? If I were Stéphane Dion or his principal...
Why We Need More Women In Politics
Because they are nurturing and considerate of others. And pretty good actresses, too. Background: A Carson City (Nevada?) council meeting. The black woman is identified as Vera Robles Dewitt, owner of Carson Bail Bonds; the other is Carson Public...
Mr. Smalley Goes To Oblivion
Captain's Quarters: Al Franken gave his listeners an expected going-away Valentine yesterday by announcing that he would seek the Democratic nomination for Norm Coleman's Senate seat. Franken had plowed the ground for this move since the 2004 election, and spent...
He Might Want To Look Into That 'Shores Of Tripoli' Thing, Too
The Texas Scribbler: Minnesota Muslim congressman Keith Ellison's use of Thomas Jefferson's two-volume copy of the Koran to take his oath of office was a pretty slick idea, until you consider that Mr. E. probably didn't take the time to...
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