Charles Adler

Fake it Until You Make it Patriotism

Dear Michael, I don't want you to mistake me for an admirer. But I do admire a good speech no matter who it comes from, no matter the circumstances. The speech on Saturday night left me colder than a Prairie January. You have been promoted by the candy cane salesman of the Liberal Party as a man of ideas, Canada's answer to Obama, a public intellectual, the second coming of Trudeau.

Has the Canadian down turn turned into a nation of bitter little skunks

Every now and then, as you know, I check up on the dark siders, the merchants of doom, to see what they are saying in order to keep the doom bus rolling. Lately there have been reports of so-called green chutes in the world economy. China is still growing and still ordering stuff from the rest of the world and apparently still selling stuff to the rest of the world.

A Nation of Beggars is Not my Canada

Ladies and gentlemen, you probably don't get told enough how fortunate you are to be living in this country. In these relatively uncertain times, with all sorts of predictions of the national unemployment situation deepening and possibly the recession deepening, you may not be feeling terribly lucky just to be a Canadian citizen. Last night while watching CBS's 60 Minutes, I had one of those proud moments and I am sure every Canadian watching had one of those “Geez…are we ever lucky to be living in Canada” moments.

Don’t Stop Thinking About Clowns

Even Dr. Doom, Nouriel Roubini is becoming more positive. Almost nobody has been more negative about the economy in the last ten years than Nouriel Rubini, the professor from NYU who was seen as a clown, up until two years ago when he was among the first to identify the great big Ponzi scheme that later became known as the Global market.

Real Justice Cuts like a Knife

Bernard Madoff is in jail after stealing $55-billion from investors...I said BILLION...I said 55-billion times more money than the human imagination can even contemplate, far more than all the great bank robberies and train robberies and stage coach robberies combined. Let's be clear here. Madoff isn't just a thief. He is a Financial Cannibal.

The National Coalition Against Crap That Passes for News

Ladies and Gentlemen, I may not be the most reliable watch dog on the block, the most reliable whiffer when it comes to so-called NEWS – you know, the stuff that doesn't quite pass my sniff test. But every time I see a headline tied to the word stimulus, my whiffer gets itchy.

Canada - Guilty of Gullibility in the First Degree

Ladies and gentlemen, One of the many emails responding to yesterday’s monologue, The Only Voice I Hear is Tim's, is from a citizen of Adler Nation who happens to be married to a member of the medical profession and is now living in Australia.

The only Voice I hear is Tim’s

Vince Li has been found not criminally responsible for the gruesome murder and beheading of Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus last summer because he is mentally ill.

Please Call Me Dirty Oil

"Now there are some in your country and some in Canada who feel Canada's Oil Sands is ‘Dirty Oil’ because of the extraction process. What do you think? Is it Dirty Oil?" A direct quote, ladies and gentlemen, from the host of CBC's The National, Peter Mansbridge, in an interview with the President of the United States, Barack Obama. To the president's credit he refused to take the bait.

Wedding for Jayla

In a World that is at times so terribly cruel, it's good to know that there are some people who find ways of finding inspiration and creativity and inspiration does not require university degrees, or wealth, or influence or even a great deal of maturity. There are times when a nine-year-old knows where to go for a cup of inspiration, and I want to share that cup with you right now.

The Right-Left Political Matrix

What the political left and right believe....

Kneepads, Panties and Patriotism

We begin with an email from a citizen of Adler Nation. His name is Grant and he writes:

Political Correctness – A Cancer on Common Sense

It's probably my reaction to your reaction to the essay on the Death of Common Sense. It's opening my sometimes jaded eyes, to the hunger on your part for some push back to the biggest mind invasion of our generation, political correctness, which I will define here and now as The Oppression of the Independent Mind by those who would want to modify our behavior by controlling our thoughts and speech.

Last word on the CBC, the Anthem and the Principal

Ladies and Gentlemen, Before we do anything else, I want to offer you a warning. You may be disappointed in something I have to tell you. I have to tell you that I have to move on from some of the things that have occupied a considerable amount of time here.

Sorry Heather I like my Steel and my Cheese Canadian

Ladies and Gentlemen, Something revolutionary has happened to the Mushy Headed Canadian Politicians and commentators in the era of Obama. Back in the Bush era, which ended only days ago, everything the U.S. administration did was unworthy of Canadian respect.

The Great Abandoner

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is the day after two major announcements.

Pictures Deceive In Gaza, But the Facts Don’t Lie

The pictures coming out of Gaza look familiar. Palestinians are grieving for their family members lost to Israeli bombs, and armor. In the so-called International PR war, it's no contest. Israel once again looks like Goliath, and the people inhabiting one of the poorest places on earth, Gaza, are Davids. Israeli explanations for the military operation, and for their deep respect for civilians, and their strategy for minimizing civilian deaths, all fall on deaf ears. The world doesn't hear explanations. They see pictures on TV, computer and mobile phone screens. No amount of explanations offering context compete in real time with the dead baby pictures.

Canadian Military offer the Children a Chance to Advance

I know that since we are very close to New Year's Eve you want lots of cheerful messages from this broadcast. You will have some. But not before I talk to you about a story that broke on the weekend that deserves to get more attention and simply hasn't because much of the media is in holiday mode. The "B" teams are on the field, and the expectation is that far fewer people are paying attention.

Three Stooges of Coupscam (Chapter Two)

It's hard for many of us to believe that the fate of Canada, one of the world's great democracies, is now in the hands of a person who has never been elected to anything. But I have confidence that the Governor General will continue to respect the views of the Prime Minister and continue to maintain Canada's tradition of having meaningful elections where the Canadian voters and votes are respected and where a change of government happens when the people vote for that change. I expect the Governor General to continue to take her prime counsel from the Prime Minister as opposed to the growing gaggle of opportunists, unionists, and academics who want to conquer the National treasury and bankrupt it.

The Three Stooges of Coupscam

Let's be clear about something. The ECONOMY has NOTHING to do with the not so silent coup that is taking place as we watch history...need a name for it? remember Adscam? Call this one COUPSCAM. It's a perfect name for what's happening on several levels and it is so Canadian..So bilingual. So au bilingue. COUPSCAM.