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As a journalist I understand the need to use value neutral terminology in describing events much of the time, but sometimes my colleagues an...

Here are the "high"lights of soon-to-be-former-presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry's recent speech in New Hampshire. ...

And that reason is this: People who comment at newspaper websites are stupid, as are many people who complain to newspapers, as are many peo...

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"You won't recognize Canada when I get through with it" -Stephen Harper Not content with running roughshod over the wishes ...

Cartoon shamelessly stolen from Alison at Creekside , who got it from LeDevoir. It appears the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to...

There is a rare seasonly-themed event this week that I would love to attend, You don't often see seasonally themed events for political ...

I'm shocked, just shocked that Christie Blatchford said something stupid, mean-spirited and offensive about not-police people who work h...

Dear Nobel prize panel, Never mind handing out prizes for curing cancer or ending war, a solution has been found for the greatest modern pl...

92 years old and he is still fighting for the 99%. His machine "surrounds hate and forces it to surrender." FSM bless Pete Seeger ...

Before Archie Bunker made bigotry just another endearing trait of old white guys, like flatulence or Republicanism, there was Joe . While...

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Ah the city  of  brotherly love. We knew Philly sports fans hated Santa Claus , but who would have imagined that they would boo an anti-canc...

So I'm watching Saturday Night Live for the first time in ages and Ben Stiller, whom I generally enjoy, is doing an admirable job as hos...

The polls close in a about 40 minutes. I'm betting on a slim Liberal majority or minority and a surge for the NDP. My two bets in the ...

We took my visiting in-laws to the farmers market last week and bought a bushel of sweet red peppers. My mother-in-law couldn't figure w...

 Poor, poor Dick Cheney. He feels he has been grievously wronged and is waiting for an apology . How dare the uppity Keyan Muslim socialist ...

They've tried sandbagging the parliamentary committees involved, they've tried smearing the witnesses, they've tried wrapping th...