Friday digest
- One of the main problems with the Middle East right now is a lack of respect for human life, as David Ignatius points out. And as Hamas is now sending Palestinian grandmothers to do their bidding, why does this former Labour MP from England feel the need to defend herself for being pro-Israel?
- Not only does Vladimir Putin murder his critics, he's now in the business of arming Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.
Is this truly a leader worthy of membership in the G-8?
- The final consequences of the Lennonist ethic, here.
- It's about time that we have a Finance Minister who is serious about finally paying the bill for the orgy of the 1970s under Pierre Trudeau which was only mildly slowed by the red Mulroney Tories.
And refreshingly, we have a national journalist here who admits that when it comes to fiscal policy, he hasn't the faintest.
- The loony left play of the day comes to us from my alma mater Carleton University . In one week, militant unions have chased the university's president out of his job a year-and-a-half into a six-year mandate, and now, the authoritarian socialists who take five years to do a three year degree so they can spend more time in the sandbox of student council politics have decided that any campus club applying for recognition must pledge their allegiance to a pro-abortion point of view.
What the issue of abortion has to do with the engineering club or the commerce society is beyond me. On the other hand, there are other groups who one could reasonably expect would be more likely to support restrictions on the practice. And what do they have in common? I think it's pretty obvious that the student council is trying to prevent the formation of any club whose leadership may be comprised of social conservatives, even if they never mention the word "abortion" in their club constitution or if it even comes up in the course of their activities as a group.
Regardless of whether abortion is an issue for you or not, it cannot be denied that any pretense to the free and open exchange of ideas in the interests of discovering knowledge and deepening intellectual discourse, which is what universities are supposed to do, is a complete and total farce at Carleton.
It's embarassing.
- Finally, today is a bit of a milestone because it was one year ago that I launched the Road Hammer after its predecessor, the Highwaymen, imploded due to the inability of some to refrain from personal attacks on the intelligence of others. I'd like to thank everybody who stops by here for allowing me an outlet to exercise my brain and suss out my thinking on the issues facing the world today. There have been nearly 20,000 hits on this site since it began, and although probably 15,000 of them have been from me, it's a pastime that I very much enjoy. We certainly live in interesting times and I am looking forward to more vigourous yet respectful debate here with you Hammerheads, wherever you may be.
Cheers.
posted by Road Hammer @ 10:32 AM
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10 Comments:
Thanks for the kind words, B.
Atkinson, an ardent heterosexualist? Perhaps I ought to consult Frank for the real scoop.
In my books, $42 billion dollar deficit = red Tory. Look at his contemporaries like Joe Clark, Barbara McDougall and Dalton Camp. Not a single tax reduction of note during the whole 9 years and more or less the Trudeaupian status quo on the overall size of government. Free trade, sure, but one doesn't need to be a conservative to be a believer in it.
The way I've read that it causes breast cancer is that upon conception, the breast's cell count expands in order to produce milk for breastfeeding. When the fetus is aborted, those cells have no purpose and often become malignant.
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Kudos on the anniversary.
Ms. Skeelo and I are both proud graduates of Carleton and we both think the turning point was when they closed Rooster's (the place where even the fattest, goofiest guy on campus could walk into and get pissed with anyone and be their friend) and turned it into a coffee shop. It signified that the school was starting to take itself way too seriously.
Admission standards went up and now you have a bunch of students entering who already have all the asnwers and their pet causes picked out. When we went there people generally started to form their opinions after being involved in campus groups or attending classes which they entered with an open mind. It's pretty sad that it has come to only allowing pro-choice groups.
And Mulroney was certainly red.
The Highwaymen imploded due to the over-reaction of one member when he was critically probed.
Alas, his revenge came with setting up his own blog...and correcting the spelling mistakes of others
I think you mean when he was told that he was "in over his head" and pretty much referred to as stupid by nameless individuals who hardly know him.
The last year speaks for itself.
I'd like to congratulate Cuba Libre on the previous comment. He has finally composed a comment that is grammatically sound and correctly spelled.
Mulroney was definitely red.
Libre, you are the Pete Best of the blogosphere.
It's "tongue".
That's b-o-r-i-n-g.
Nice job on the spelling BobbyC.
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