Over the past decade, people have become less and less reliant on newspapers, and the mainstream media in general. Part of this is due to the fact that in a 24-hour news cycle, waiting for the next morning’s paper delivery — or, even the evening news — is too long a wait to find out [...]
Tags: Landmark Report
The long-awaited answer to Canada’s lack of choice in news is coming. Sun Media’s project to launch a 24-hour news network exists to put a stop to boredom, political correctness and liberal slant that exists in the Canadian mainstream media. The much anticipated and much discussed Sun News Network will be launching next month, and [...]
Tags: Andrew Lawton, Sun Media, Sun News Network, Sun TV News
This article from National Review about one of the most derided presidents in American history seems particularly pertinent in the age of Obama. A “return to normalcy” and end to socialist experimentation is exactly what is needed today: Reassessing Warren G. Harding And a call for normalcy. By Ryan Cole & Amity Shlaes Change isn’t [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Calvin Coolidge, Conservatism, Progressivism, Socialism, Warren G. Harding, WWI
From the Wall Street Journal: The World Needs a Strong GOP Republicans can show the way with careful fiscal conservatism at home and quiet idealism abroad. By DAVID DAVIS It is always hazardous for outsiders to offer opinions on a foreign country’s political landscape, and as a lifetime admirer of America and its values I [...]
Tags: Conservatism, GOP, Republican Party
From Investors Business Daily: Leadership: For years, Barack Obama called Iraq “a dumb war.” But considering how that conflict undeniably scared Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi into ending his WMD program, the 2003 invasion has never looked smarter. ‘I don’t oppose all wars,” future President Barack Obama told Chicagoans Against War in Iraq during a 2002 rally. [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Iraq War, War on Terror
From Human Events: Uncivil Unions By Ann Coulter As Obama rakes in historic campaign contributions from Wall Street money, liberals claim Republicans are beholden to “the rich.” However that may be, it is far more true, and far less remarked upon, that the Democratic Party is the party of public sector unions. And now, the [...]
Tags: Ann Coulter, Economics, Unions, Wisconsin
What’s more Canadian than waiting for hours in a hospital waiting room for treatment? Being forced to wait in a Tim Horton’s instead. Hallway medicine is hitting new highs in congested Lower Mainland hospitals, as was demonstrated Monday night when Royal Columbian Hospital was forced to use its Tim Hortons outlet as an overflow ward. [...]
Tags: British Columbia, Canada, Healthcare, Public Healthcare, Socialism, Tim Horton's
Is Democracy Viable? By Thomas Sowell Those who see hope in the Middle East uprisings seem to assume that they will lead in the direction of freedom or democracy. There is already talk about the “liberation” of Egypt, even though the biggest change there has been that a one-man dictatorship has been replaced by a [...]
Tags: Democracy, Islam, Thomas Sowell
From today’s WSJ: Why Koch Industries Is Speaking Out Crony capitalism and bloated government prevent entrepreneurs from producing the products and services that make people’s lives better. By CHARLES G. KOCH Years of tremendous overspending by federal, state and local governments have brought us face-to-face with an economic crisis. Federal spending will total at least [...]
Tags: Economics, Koch Brothers
