Klaus Rohrich

David Cameron gets it right

It’s rare when a politician, particularly one from a social democracy like Britain, engages in straight talk. But that’s exactly what David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party of Britain, did during a recent speech in Glasgow.

Another “great honor” bites the dust

Like the Nobel Peace Prize, which has been awarded to the likes of Yassar Arafat, the Order of Canada, this country’s highest civilian citation, has been awarded to abortion doctor Henry Morgenthaler. Morgentaler, who in many ways is Canada’s answer to Dr. Kevorkian, has made a career out of killing the unborn and stirring up no small amount of controversy doing so.

Democrats have found religion

In the early 1960s there was a perfume commercial on television whose tag line read. “Promise her anything...but give her Lanvin.” It would appear that in wooing the electorate the Democrats are promising the voters anything in order to be able to give them their agenda.

Beware the climate change boogey man

Just when you thought the hysteria about global warming and climate change was on the decline, a plethora of idiots emerges on the scene to warn of falling skies. Reading the weekend papers was a real chore as one had to wade through so many lies and inaccuracies it was sickening.

Dion’s Green Shift shifts more taxes to government coffers

If you like Canada Post and think our healthcare system is just ducky, then you’ll love Stephane Dion’s “Green Shift” scheme. In a nutshell the Green Shift Dion is focusing on is the green in your pocket going into the government’s pocket.

Dems looking to nationalize oil

In a desperate effort to garner public support the Democrats in Congress are pandering to disaffected drivers by tearing a page out of the Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Lenin playbook. Congressional Democrats have come up with a proposal to national all oil refineries in the United States, believing this move will bring about an immediate drop in the price of gasoline and other fuels.

Muslim ‘hate speech’ complaints contrived

While reading the newspapers last week, I found myself several times looking at news articles that reported suicide bombings carried out by Muslim extremists next to stories about a number of Canadian Muslims who see hate speech in every article that makes any mention of Muslims.

Miller’s power grab

The announcement that the city of Toronto was going to be banning guns has drawn lot of heat from people south of the border. Several dozen outraged Americans have written to the Toronto government to express their anger over the temerity of David Miller and his sock-puppet city council and have received a canned reply from Joanne Miller (no relation) that states Toronto’s position.

The futility of guilt

There is nothing quite so frustrating as talking to a guilty white liberal. I was at a dinner party recently. Our hostess, an attractive, smart, middle-aged divorcee, lived in an extremely upscale neighborhood in a 5,000+ square foot house complete with swimming pool and a view to die for. As these affairs are wont to do, the conversation among the guests turned to issues affecting society and on the top of our hostess’s list was the issue of native peoples.

A separate reality

As a writer I just love David Miller and his stalwart troupe of barking socialist seals because they’re so generous in providing people like me with material. My colleagues at CFP and I often muse about whether or not the Millerites actually believe the things they espouse or if they are playing to a certain Toronto demographic they think will keep them in power.

David Miller could go one better

Toronto Mayor David Miller wants to take all guns away from legal gun owners within the City of Toronto, close down all sports and target shooting clubs and thereby eliminate gun crime within his city. It’s a nice thought, but it won’t happen because EVERYONE (except the mayor) knows that the guns used in the commission of violent crimes in Toronto mostly do not originate with legal gun owners.

The price of oil is what it should be

It never ceases to amaze me the level of ignorance displayed by people who believe that big oil companies are profiting at the expense of society. I was listening to a talk radio program last week that discussed the current exorbitant gasoline prices and sought opinions from listeners about how to deal with that problem.

Federal Liberals establish new suicide cult

Stephane Dion has promised that if he is elected prime minister of Canada we will all be paying more for gasoline, natural gas and home heating oil. His brilliant new strategy hopes to capture the votes of those Canadians who don’t think that current energy prices are high enough and that what this country really needs is higher taxes.

Dreaming up new rights

The recent controversy over Canada’s refusal to recognize the “Right to Food”, which is another of those dubious “rights” dreamed up by the UN is illustrative of how most of the world views the West as a fat cow willing to be milked to death. I’m all in favor of human rights, but it seems that every week the UN appears to magically discover some new, previously unknown human right, while simultaneously forgetting about some human rights it believes to be obsolete.

A bureaucrat, not a soldier

Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian army general who presided over the UN’s disastrous mission in Rwanda that resulted in the murder of some 800,000 innocents, has once again shown his true calling.

Making sure everyone suffers a uniform level of misery

Leave it up to left-wing consumer advocacy groups to ensure that everyone in Canada is equally miserable. The most recent example of this is the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), which is complaining to the Canadian Transportation Agency that Air Canada’s ‘On My Way’ program is discriminatory.

Afrocentric schools- an exercise in self-marginalization

Systemic. It’s a word that’s often used in conjunction with other words to give those words more punch, as in “systemic racism” or “systemic sexism” or “systemic discrimination”.

Treating symptoms—and feeding the disease

Anyone interested in a microcosmic view of the state of healthcare in Canada can get a fairly good perspective by visiting Brockville General Hospital (BGH) in eastern Ontario. It isn’t the kind of place that one would go to if one were seeking medical treatment, but it would make a great case study in the intricacies of bureaucracy for anyone working on an MBA. According to local sources, BGH recently received some $68 million in capital funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and has begun an ambitious program of renovations designed to make the facility state-of-the-art. The first round of renovations started with the closing off of a number of the hospital’s patient wings and a complete renovation of the entrance and the business offices.

Show me your friends…

Well, he’s finally gone and done it. Barack Obama has thrown the right Rev. Jeremiah Wright off the planet, supposedly because the Rev. Wright made some um, rash statements.

The TTC strike:  it’s all David Miller’s fault

The poet Robert Burns had a catchy saying: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” Toronto Mayor David Miller must be thinking about Robbie Burns right about now, as the scheme he so meticulously devised appears to have been derailed by the TTC’s union workers who rejected a sweetheart contract of a 9% increase over 3 years and promptly walked off the job.