Hobby Lobby, Obamacare, Discrimination And Evangelicals
In case you have missed it, yet another US company owned by an evangelical Christian family has challenged the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on religious grounds. Craft store chain Hobby...
View ArticleCanada’s National Post Deliberately Misleads Readers, Betrays Public Trust
Readers of these pages will know that I have a long history of calling out misleading news organizations. In fact, it is one of the reasons this site exists. Therefore, you will also know that...
View ArticleNRA Releases Shooting Video Game For 4 Year Olds
The headline is accurate – you really can’t make this stuff up. To be fair it is for ages “4 And Up”, which of course, makes it all so much better. Find the app on iTunes and then read the NRA quote...
View ArticlePresident Obama, Gay Rights, Discrimination And A Simple Solution
One of the things I hope to do here on these pages, is to boil seemingly complicated issues down to their simplest form. In his second inaugural address, President Obama did the same, when it comes to...
View ArticleNRA’s Wayne LaPierre Proclaims No New Gun Laws – Ever
Now that the control of semi-automatic weapons appears all but dead in the current US gun debate, NRA chief Wayne LaPierre has proclaimed that there should be “no new gun laws” whatsoever. As if...
View ArticleMentally Ill South Carolina Woman Shoots Down NRA’s Gun Control Positions
UPDATED Welcome to the NRA’s America. A mentally ill South Carolina woman is charged with attempted murder after she showed up outside a local school, pointed her gun at teachers and pulled the...
View ArticleRepublicans,Truth About Sequestration, And The Impact On You
I’ve been asked a lot over the past few weeks why in the world the US Congress would allow rather unfocused budget cuts to come into effect. New to the term Sequestration? CNN explains it for us...
View ArticleRob Portman His Gay Son And The Problem With Being Conservative
I ponder this question a lot. Why do conservatives think the way they do? Are they selfish? Uncaring? Unthinking? Or simply ideologically afraid of progress? If the latter, is it for one of the...
View ArticleSpineless US Senate Votes Down Gun Bill, Shames Newtown Victims
President Obama said it best “All in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington”. Indeed. In order to save their own reelection bids in 2014, cowardly US Senators turned their backs on every...
View ArticleSecond Arrest In Murder Of Man Who Appears In Photo With Mayor Rob Ford
As reported the the Toronto Star here. Gotta love the Ford boys: The mayor’s brother, Councillor Doug Ford, said “Rob has taken thousands of pictures with young black men, with their hats on, with...
View ArticleWhat Are The Other 50 Percent Smoking?
From the Toronto Star: Rob Ford crack scandal: Over half of Toronto residents believe alleged Ford video exists Yikes.
View ArticleHmmm… Perhaps This White Supremacist should Heed His Own Words…
Out of the mouth of New Jersey nazi Heath Campbell, the father of four children who is fighting for the right to see his youngest son, a two-year-old boy he named Heinrich Hons. “It’s not what is on...
View ArticleThe Prime Minister At Times Incurs Expenses That Are Best Paid By The Party
An incredible head-shaker uncovered by CBC News. One of those headlines than makes you squint and read it three times. This has the potential to make the Sponsorship Scandal, which helped elect...
View ArticleAnd How Has That all Turned Out for Canada Mr. Harper?
Stephen Harper as Canada’s Official Opposition Leader, April 2005: The Conservative Party wants to give this country direction. We want, and we believe you want, to end corruption and restore honest...
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