The Flight Deck

Earlier this year, the President’s chief economist, Dr. Christina Romer, said that the jobless rate would only hit nine percent if Washington failed to pass the trillion-dollar “stimulus” spending bill. Less than four months after the President signed the “stimulus”, the unemployment rate has hit 9.4 percent.(Clicking on the graph will take you to the [...]

There is something that has been nagging me about the Automobile mess and the recent efforts by those in charge to right the sinking ships that are GM and Chrysler. I won’t get into the forced shotgun marriage between Chrysler and Fiat other than to ask: exactly how good a deal could the executives at [...]

The blogosphere is abuzz with President Obama’s comment, comparing his bowling ability to a Special Olympics level, on Jay Leno last night.  More noise than light, I rather think. As in everybody loves to use whatever ammo they can find for their own political purposes. But I heard the comment on the show and at [...]

Definition of “Disturbing“:  A 45-minute conversation with your nearly 13-year-old daughter which somehow begins with her comment that “Bush is evil“, leading to an attempt to explain the true defintion of “evil” and ending with a full-out discussion surrounding the options available to the US after 9/11 after she at one point counters with the question [...]

Believe it or not, this is an amendment I could really support … which is highly unusual for me when it comes to Canada’s Conservative Party. But one of the resolutions passed (and reportedly approved by 99% of the nearly 2,000 party members) at the party’s first national policy convention since 2003 [held in Winnipeg, hence [...]

Love y’all out there. This place needs some energizing! How about the latest from Red State Travis and Jonathan from their “Red State Update” series? I do wish these guys get a chance for a series on “real” TV. Now get out there and vote for Sarah! Bookmark to: Hide Sites

Just in case Lex happens to miss it, I thought it was only right to let you know. The Canadian Human Rights Commission dismissed a hate speech complaint against Maclean’s magazine on Friday in a decision the complainants blamed on “inappropriate political pressure.” Just to be clear, that would be the complaint claiming that an article [...]

As an *interesting* follow-up to this post, a human rights complaint and police investigation for possible “hate crimes” [gag, cough, choke, sputter] have been launched against the Chronicle Herald (a Nova Scotia provincial newspaper) for the following editorial cartoon which was ran on April 18.  You can read the rest of the story (including my thoughts, if [...]

This has apparently been making the rounds on the Internet the last week and a half… In March 2003 while touring overseas, the hugely-popular (at that time) country music group Dixie Chicks made some disparaging comments about President Bush and the impending war in Iraq. A large number of their fans dropped them like a [...]

It doesn’t work. About two months ago, I wrote this: I’ve read passing references to these vile plans for awhile, and like some half-remembered bad dream I’ve tried to ignore them, maybe hoping IVAW wasn’t really planning what headlines implied. But today John linked them and I finally read their website. Until that point, I’d [...]