Unlike some commentators, I do not think it is inappropriate for the sitting leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition to be given a state funeral. Perhaps he did not hold the honorific “Right Honourable”, nor was he Prime Minister or Governor General. I do not believe that every opposition leader, nor every prime minister should …
Category Archive: Politics
Aug 15
Book Review: The Original Argument
The Original Argument was not, as it leads one to believe from the cover, written by Glenn Beck. It was largely compiled by Joshua Charles, a student at the University of Kansas who heard Beck’s call for some to “translate” the Federalist Papers into modern English so more people could appreciate them. As far …
Aug 15
Book Review : Reckless Endangerment
In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenstern and Joshua Rosner, both of the New York Times, do a reasonable job of exposing some of the greed and corruption that led to the financial collapse of 2008 and the Great Recession which America finds itself unable to recover from even three years later. I found the exposé of …
Aug 15
Book Review : Rollback
I first read Thomas E. Woods in his book Meltdown, which I reviewed two years ago. Hi most recent book, Rollback, attempts to lay out a process by which America – and by extension many western countries, including Canada – can reduce the size of government and remove many of the ways the government interferes …
Aug 07
Mark Cuban on Patent Law
Mark Cuban has a very good post recommending improvements to the patent law system. While his reference is clearly the US patent system, this applies to most of the patent laws around the world, including here in Canada. I would add one more thing to Mr. Cuban’s short list of fixes. While he focuses on …
Aug 06
On Infrastructure Spending in Calgary
Although it has passed from the daily news in the City of Calgary, we still have a budget problem. The municipal government is spending too much money and is having to raise property taxes steeply to pay for it all. Municipal politicians, such as Mayor Nenshi, continue complain that cities should be given more …
Jul 11
Santelli on the US Debt Ceiling
Rick Santelli goes on a classic rant: He clearly points out that the US Government must start to live within the revenue it has, and not just reduce the growth in government spending, but actually reduce spending and come up with a real plan to balance the budget. The other folks in that vi deo …
Jun 19
Could be about Canadian Health care
Small Dead Animals points us to an excellent column in the Telegraph, which points out that we need honesty and hard decisions on the health care system – and that while right leaning politicians know the right answer, they are too afraid to speak to us like adults. I raised this during the 2011 federal …
Jun 16
A Lesson for Canada’s Dairy Industry
And for the Government of Canada. The Economist, in the Monday 20 June 2011 print edition, has an article on the success of New Zealand’s agricultural exports. Some 25 years ago, the NZ government, in a spate of government cuts, dismantled the supply management system that had coddled various agricultural businesses for decades. The result? …