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 …
Category Archive: The Law
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 …
Oct
16
“Multikulti” has failed
I hope that Pierre Trudeau is rolling in his grave! Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, has openly declared: And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other… has failed, utterly failed. I have waited a long time to hear a major world leader say this. …
Feb
01
On Campaign Finance
George F. Will writes and EXCELLENT column in the Washington Post and published today in the National Post. He clearly lays out why the Supreme Court of the United States was correct in it’s decision to overturn the ban on independent expenditures during elections. He puts it most clearly here: The Federal Election Commission, which …
Oct
28
The slow H1N1 clinics
OK, so there is evidence across Canada of long lines at H1N1 immunization clinics, and the data thus far shows that it could take months to immunize the population at this rate. This could be accelerated significantly if you change a few rules, in the name of “public health emergency”. First, I heard on the …
Sep
16
On free speech in America
I am very curious how the Supreme Court of the United States will deal with the McCain-Feingold restriction on corporate-funded (or even remotely funded) ban on election related publications, films or television. While I would never claim to be a lawyer, it would seem to me that the First Amendment to the US Constitution should …
Aug
21
On Child Services and Alberta politics
Kevin Libin makes a very good connection in today’s commentary in the Post. I previously discussed the mess that Canada’s Children’s Aid Societies are in, and Mr. Libin shows the horrible mess in Alberta where a provincial court judge has sentenced a director of child services for contempt for failing to return a child …
Jun
16
CAS is like HRCs – time for a major shakeup
Kevin Libin has written an excellent exposé of the Children’s Aid Societies (and their other named kin) across Canada, and he has gotten a significant amount of feedback supporting his findings. The problem is that unaccountable “social workers” have been given supra-legal powers to enter homes and “apprehend” children based on entirely subjective criteria. If …
Jun
01
Stop sending them money…
In the news today, Border guards abandon posts on Mohawk reserve. If the Mohawk at Akwesasne want to be a “sovereign nation”, perhaps we should set up the border posts AROUND the reserve with armed guards. And Ottawa should stop sending them money. Voila – problem solved!
Apr
27
On Shakedown
I finally had time to read Shakedown by Ezra Levant, and I must say I’m impressed by the energy he has put into this, as well as the uproar he has caused. Ezra does all Canadians (and all people who live is supposedly “free” democracies) a service by outing the totalitarian lie the so-called human …