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Winning hearts and minds "Thanks for the free exercise, G.I.! America is No.1!" I bet these kids grow up to love America. Five ye...

the dirtiest commercial I 've ever seen

Poonoka's finest Once again we bring you the RCMP's fantastically talented Cst. Douglas Enns and the the world's greatest small ...

The Turner Diaries Poor, poor Garth Turner. After being a lifelong member of the Tory party, an MP on and off since 1988 and even a cabinet ...

IN YOUR EAR Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer TOM WAITS Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards Sony Music/Epitaph, 6,300 yen The grea...

Let the trials begin Depending which version of events you believe Donald Rumsfeld has resign or been fired in disgrace over the blazing clu...

The genius of Brian Mulroney Admittedly this is not a phrase I ever expected to type, but this week I've been listening to the 2005 Mass...

Electoral Crystal Ball In the U.S. Senate elections, Joe Lieberman will squeak out a narrow win (not more than 5%) against Ned Lamont and jo...

What's Farsi for "Last Stand"? By the end of the year, at least 3,000 U.S. soldiers will have "died with their boots on....

Media Matters vs. the MSM Hacks This plea for less crapulous horserace coverage and more (any) substance should be nailed to the door of eve...

More Spankers! "Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV" has drawn over 12,000 hits to this blog in the last month (and over a quarter...

True punditry, thy name is Billmon Sometimes, I write something and read it and pat myself on the back. Other times I read what someone else...

Wavy Gravy alway says: If you remember the 60's you weren't really there, but this study on Alzheimer's and marijuana indicates ...

The Hockey Sweater One of my all-time favorite stories -- I love the narration by the author, Roch Carrier.

Over the hill and picking up speed Okay, I've been 40 years old for about 99 minutes now. I don't like it, but I suppose it beats th...

Dilbert's Unified Theory of Everything Financial Everything you need to know about money in under 130 words. From Scott Adams' ...

Guilty until proven innocent Ex-con (1) and Canadian Justice Minister Vic Toews has brought in a bill to establish a U.S. style three-strik...

So it goes Another day, another Republican accused of nepotism and corruption . Seriously, if the Democrats can't turn all this into a c...

Religious round up Salon has an amusing juxtaposition of articles this week: A story on Steven Baldwin , who has morphed from C-list actor i...

Sweet Jesus And they wonder why there is a problem with obesity in North America? As a bit of a lardass, I suppose I'm not in a great p...