Category Politics
Twitter and Free Speech
I found this post from January 2021 in my draft post file. No idea why it didn’t get posted back then. These days the name has changed, as Twitter is now X – but the issues remain the same. My 2024 reflections will be in italics at the end. I’m a big proponent of free […]
A Win For The Truckers
It is too late to make a difference, but it does set a precedent for the future. The federal government is appealing of course, not just because of the precedent but because the court ruling makes the Prime Minister and his Cabinet look bad. On Tuesday the Federal court ruled that the Trudeau government’s use […]
Is It All Over?
Well that was anti-climactic. Despite his opponents spending hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat him, Donald Trump has apparently locked up the Republican Party nomination for this year’s American presidential election. It isn’t usually over after the first primary, but such is the state of the Republican Party. And indeed of America. Now Trump’s […]
The Winner
The American presidential election campaign kicks into high gear today with the Iowa Caucus. The winners are basically predetermined, al three of them. Americans, having grown up in the system, instinctively understand the difference between a caucus and a primary, the form most states use to choose party delegates to a presidential nominating convention. If […]
The First One
The first real storm of the winter has started. It’s Tuesday afternoon and I have been shoveling already. There’s another 15-20 centimeters on the way. Snow isn’t the problem. It is the freezing rain and ice pellets that are coming overnight. The online “snow day predictor” tells me there’s a 99% school buses will be […]
Is This Democracy?
George Santos has been kicked out of the US House of Representatives. Is this good news for American democracy? Santos, as you can read in mind-numbing detail on his Wikipedia page, is a serial liar and faces multiple criminal charges. If that makes someone unfit for elected office, then why is Donald Trump even considered […]
A Sense of Duty
It was something no-one expected, except perhaps those closed to him. Former US President Jimmy Carter attended his wife Rosalynn’s funeral on Tuesday. Carter is 99, and has been in hospice care for months. Attending the funeral must have taken all the effort he has left in him. Those around him were probably saying not […]
Defining Irony
According to Google – Irony: a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. Hiring a consultant to tell you how to cut back on the use of consultants seems a bit funny to me. Or should I say it is ironic? […]
Three Years Later…
The true believers continue their crusade. It really does defy logic. I noticed on Twitter (the social media site that no-one calls X) that an author I used to respect was posting “data” showing how the 2020 US presidential election was stolen. In this case it was 17,000 dead people voting in Michigan. Maybe I […]
Is America Broken?
You probably have noticed that there are crises everywhere you turn these days. Wars and rumors of wars, fires, earthquakes and other natural disasters. Apparently the US House of Representatives missed the memos. At a time when the world needs leadership, America’s Congressmen are staring at their navels and playing political games. Such things aren’t […]
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