Live from the Nuke Free Zone

Today, I saw one of the most depressing things I have ever seen.
A casino bus.
Where I’m writing from, people who ride buses are those who cannot afford the means to drive themselves somewhere. Here was a whole busload of people on their way to a casino. Even if today’s load quickly loses what little they […]

I’ll write a more wordy post on the recall soon. In the meantime, I had to share this with you all.

July 31st was a bad day for the Arab-Israeli peace process. Israel strayed from the “road map for peace” by inviting construction bids for expanding the Jewish town of Neveh Dekalim in the Gaza Strip. On top of that, Israel’s Knesset [parliament] passed a law temporarily banning the immigration of Palestinian Authority citizens who are […]

Nova Scotia columnist Scott Taylor maintains a weekly series of articles called On Target, a running commentary of the military events of the past week. I’ve followed this guy’s articles for most of a year, and I’d say he knew his stuff except that I would be generally insulting him by selling him so short. […]

I recently got a pair of “URGENT: EXPRESS PRIORITY” packages in the post from Terry McAuliffe and Nancy Pelosi. I’m not even registered Democratic, so I don’t know where they would have gotten my name from. Perhaps the ACLU or EFF, bravely defending privacy in the digital age of conglomerate databases? Who knows. Rip ‘em […]

Someone at Harvard University did a study of editorial bias in four major U.S. newspapers by examining 510 of their editorial responses to 10 similar political and policy initiatives in the Clinton and current Bush administrations. The results, in a neat table:

Paper
Attacks Clinton
Defends Clinton
Attacks Bush
Defends Bush

New York Times
37%
37%
68%
8%

Washington Post
22%
34%
65%
12%

Wall Street Journal
83%
5%
3%
75%

Washington Times
93%
1%
10%
78%

Summing positive and negative […]

In places along the left-wing echo chamber, we hear a fair amount of noise from various people who “want their (fill in the blank) back” and are at least willing to talk a good game about breaking things and generally causing Damage. This in and of itself is pretty harmless stress relief, but every now […]

Well, the general election for Nova Scotia went through today. It was one of those ideal days to decide the political fate of an area - dull, cold, and rainy, with driving winds that occaisionally kicked up enough to make the rain hurt. Wonderful day to me, aside from that whole election thing. In any […]

The latest rumour on the censored bit of the Sep11 report is that it says the Saudis did it. Now, other rumours have suggested Saudi financing not just of al-Qaeda but of the specific terrorists who pulled off the Sep11 attacks. I’ve heard from someone who read the book Forbidden Truth that it also ties […]