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Klaus Rohrich

Klaus Rohrich is senior columnist for Canada Free Press. Klaus also writes topical articles for numerous magazines. He has a regular column on RetirementHomes and is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism. His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, among others. He lives and works in a small town outside of Toronto. Older articles by Klaus Rohrich

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Change.  You asked for it

As the Obama Administration gets ready to impose the most radical and intrusive economic measures on American society, don’t be surprised if some of the anticipated outcomes won’t be exactly as imagined. For instance, Mr. Obama has promised to reform healthcare in the US so that the 15% of Americans who currently cannot afford health insurance will have legally mandated coverage.
- Monday, February 2, 2009

Some animals are more equal than others…

“She needs to be re-educated.” Proclaimed Andrea Markowski on the Corus Radio’s Charles Adler show, referring to a family doctor in Winnipeg who refused to accept Ms. Markowski and her husband/wife as new patients because they were a lesbian couple. Dr. Kamelia Elias of Winnipeg’s Lakewood Medical Centre suggested that the couple seek out another family practitioner, as she had had no experience with lesbians and held deeply felt religious convictions that were in opposition to gay marriage.
- Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The politics of affirmative action

With Barack Obama’s historic (and hysteric) ascension to the White House, a giant hurdle in American politics has been breached. Rejoice, for the Age of Affirmative Action Politics has finally arrived! Mr. Obama’s speech, while characteristically lacking in substance, did contain an admixture of all the right words, yet somehow failed to proclaim the end of racism in America. My guess would be the reason for that failure was to keep from alienating all those who are still investing in that conceit.
- Monday, January 26, 2009

Death of an ideal

The inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States will mark the death of the ideal that was America. The land that once prided itself in its citizens’ ability to prosper against the most difficult odds and for over 200 years enjoyed the rule of law governed by the most enlightened constitution in the history of mankind, has chosen instead to trust its future to a man they know nothing about.
- Monday, January 19, 2009

The great Canadian prescription scam

Healthcare in Canada has one of the characteristics that supposedly sets Canadians apart from their southerly neighbors, with it being freely dispensed to everyone, compliments of the government.
- Monday, January 12, 2009

So what’s to negotiate?

It’s a hard and fast rule of nature that every time a terrorist organization like Hamas or Hezbollah runs low on ammunition, they call for a cease fire and want to negotiate. The question is, what’s to negotiate when the prime position of those with whom you are negotiating is your complete and utter destruction?
- Friday, January 9, 2009

CUPE becomes wholly owned subsidiary of Hamas

In a stunning move that left business analysts speechless, the terrorist entity Hamas has purchased all outstanding shares of CUPE. Or so it would appear, given the position by the CUPE executive to encourage the membership’s approval to ban Israeli professors from Ontario universities. Janice Folk-Dawson, the chairwoman of the university workers committee, claims the impetus to ban Israeli academics comes from the organization’s grass roots and is strictly designed to “stop the massacre [in the Gaza Strip] that is going on daily.”
- Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Bankruptcy—a new beginning

As politicians on both sides of the border struggle with the issues of bailing out the Big Three automakers, it might be worth their while to look at the worst-case scenario. No, it’s not the imminent bankruptcies of these companies if government funding doesn’t come through right now; it’s the imminent bankruptcies that will ensue a year or two down the line as no amount of corporate bailouts and reshuffling of debt will fix the problems that are at the root of US automakers woes.
- Monday, December 15, 2008

A Rae-ny day for Canada

Probably the worst disaster that could befall Canada this early in the new millennium is not an economy that’s tanked or a governing coalition comprised of the Liberals/NDP/Bloc. It’s likely the most disastrous event that could befall Canada right now would be for Bob Rae to win the leadership of the Liberal Party and then go on to bamboozle the electorate into a Liberal majority. Truly this is conjecture predicated on two events that at this time seem unlikely, but remember, this is Canukistan where the unexpected is beginning to become routine.
- Monday, December 8, 2008

What now?

Governor General Michaelle Jean has agreed to prorogue parliament until January when Stephen Harper’s government can introduce a proper budget. The big question is: what happens now? Presumably when parliament returns on January 26th and the government presents its budget, these same forces that have attempted to unseat the Conservative minority will take another run at gaining power.
- Thursday, December 4, 2008

Call in the clowns

imageCanada is being turned into a three-ring circus with the clowns acting as ringmasters. Installing a coalition of Liberal/NDP/Bloc Quebecois parties could well be the final nail in the coffin of what was once a great nation. The idea for this coalition of clowns has the unique imprimatur of Jack Layton, whose cravings for power have reached sociopathic proportions. Stephane Dion could not have thought of forming this coalition because his mind lacks that subtle snake-like quality that is the hallmark of Layton, nor could Giles Duceppe have thought of it, given his shortsighted focus on breaking up Canada.
- Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Ho-hum; another report blames crime on racism

It’s the kind of thing you can set your watch by. A particularly heinous episode of violence takes a young life in a predominantly ethnic school; the community is aghast; activists demand action and the government trots out a couple of its has-beens, lavishes them with large amounts of money to table a report blaming the whole thing on poverty and racism.
- Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Honor Killing: deeds speak louder than words

The term “Honor Killing’ has now joined the list of unacceptable phraseology in our vastly growing lexicon of misspeak. Islamic organizations throughout Western nations are objecting to the use of that word, claiming it is racist and Islamophobic. The outcry by American Muslims has been so strong that even the FBI has knuckled under the politically correct speech code and changed its terminology on a wanted poster seeking the arrest of one Yasser Abdel Said who is alleged to have murdered his daughter. Many women’s groups have come out in support of condemning the term as they claim it detracts from the real issue, which to them is domestic violence perpetrated by “the patriarchy”.
- Wednesday, November 19, 2008

MPAC: Ontario’s very own boondoggle

Those of us who maintain that government has gotten far too big for our own good can take little solace in the Ontario government’s creation of the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC). MPAC is a not for profit corporation charged with maintaining up to date assessments of all of Ontario’s properties, so that municipalities could levy taxes based on real value. The Harris Government initially created the corporation in 1997 then named the Ontario Property Assessment Corporation, because of the wide disparity in property assessments, particularly those in older urban areas versus newer suburban neighbourhoods. It used to be that homes in places like Toronto’s fashionable Cabbagetown area were assessed at say $12,000 to $16,000, while newer homes of similar size in places like Richmond Hill were assessed at $180,000 to $200,000. Both assessments reflected their value when the houses were first purchased.
- Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Great expectations

Now that Barack Obama is firmly ensconced as POTUS to be the inevitable collision with the reality of delivering on his promises is imminent. How can he deliver on his promise of “hope and change”, given the near insurmountable problems he has claimed he will solve. Think about it; he’s a politicians with no experience in any of the areas with which he will be dealing, having spent less than two years in the US Senate, during which time his main occupation was running for the Presidency. So now that he’s achieved his goal, an admirable achievement, to say the least, what are the chances that he will reduce the levels of the oceans and heal the world?
- Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The trouble with McCain…

This is perhaps the most interesting presidential race the United States has seen since Harry Truman trounced Thomas Dewey. It’s interesting because Barack Obama has received some highly unlikely endorsements and the smart money is betting he’ll win. Christopher Buckley, son of the founder of modern conservatism, William F. Buckley, was recently bounced as a columnist for the National Review because he endorsed Obama rather than the Republican candidate. Ken Adelman also endorsed Obama, as did George Bush’s former Secretary of State, Colin Powell. What gives?
- Monday, October 27, 2008

Is Barack Obama the ‘Manchurian Candidate’?

In October 1962 the film The Manchurian Candidate was released to rave reviews. Directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Harvey, the film was about a nefarious plot that involved brainwashing, an assassin with a post-hypnotic trigger and a conspiracy to deliver the US presidency into the hands of foreign enemies whose plan it was to destroy the country from within. Eventually cracks began to appear in the plot and in the end the evildoers met their just rewards.
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Politics of the bizarre

Bizarreness comes in many forms. In Canada it manifests itself in politics. Following the current election, which thankfully is nearly over, one can’t help but wonder what motivates a people whose politicians woo them with the promise of higher taxes or with a vague plan to break up the country. Where else but Canada can a political leader face sharp criticism from his rivals for remaining calm in a crisis?
- Monday, October 13, 2008

John McCain doesn’t want to win

In the first moments of the second presidential debate held last night in Tennessee, I realized that John McCain did not have the will to win the Presidency. His answer to the first question asked of him was to promise that if elected, he would arrange for the federal government to buy up all the bad mortgages currently being held in American financial institutions and renegotiate them so that those whose mortgages are in default could remain in their homes. This promise from a Republican presidential candidate is proof that McCain is a true RINO (Republican in name only)
- Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Obamarithmetic

Listening to the first of a series of debates between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, I was struck by the apparent level of ignorance displayed by Barack Obama, particularly when it comes to numbers. Not that John McCain’s conversance with American tax policies were that much better, but at least there appeared to be some level of understanding of the inverse relationship between national prosperity and a crippling tax regimen.
- Monday, September 29, 2008

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