Klaus Rohrich

Free speech go to hell

Gosh, what a surprise. The Canada Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has ruled that Vision TV did not violate federal broadcasting standards in allowing Isar Ahmad, a radical Pakistani Imam, to lecture on his particular brand of poison last summer on the multi-faith TV station.

A step back in time

In the summer of 1964, I moved to Meridian, Mississippi, which then was a sleepy old-south town just getting acquainted with the 20th century. In those days the town was completely segregated with separate schools for black and white kids and drinking fountains and public washrooms bearing the designations “colored only” and “white only”.

Democrats scamming electorate

During this year’s presidential race some interesting dynamics are beginning to surface through the Democrats’ quest for a candidate: they are scamming their electorate. Each of the three prospective candidates is positioning him or herself as something that he or she is not.

Jack Layton is a ghoul

NDP leader Jack Layton is up to his old tricks, using peoples’ personal tragedies to advance his political fortunes. This time Jumpin’ Jack called a press conference at the corner of Broadview Ave. and Gerard St. E. to advocate a crackdown on gun crime in Toronto.

Do voters really want change?

A good friend of mine who is probably the most politically astute person I know maintains that the most dangerous word in politics is “change”. That’s because she believes that despite all the hype at the beginning of each election cycle, the last thing voters really want is change.

Society’s problem?  I think not

It’s funny how the so-called “Falconer Report” on violence in Toronto’s schools came to the conclusion that the problems were due to society’s failure to meet the needs of marginalized students.

They made me proud

There’ve been times in the past when I was deeply ashamed of being a citizen of Canada; times like Sept. 13, 2001 when our creepy and opportunistic prime minister basically said that America got what it deserved on 9/11; or the time another creepy prime minister excoriated the US for failure to sign onto the Kyoto agreement on the very day that it was revealed the Americans had actually decreased their carbon emissions, while Canada’s increased by some 25%.

The death throes of healthcare

It’s difficult to watch a terminally ill patient go through all the stages of dying without being left with a complete feeling of despondency and helplessness. There are five stages of dying as defined by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross.

Don’t count Hillary out just yet

Ah, the wisdom of American punditry. Just as Barack Obama starts to display a surprising amount of strength, many American columnists are looking at the prospect of “President Obama” as being a fait accompli.

YCJA is institutionalized insanity

A lawyer friend of mine once remarked that Canada has a legal system, which should never be confused with a justice system. How right he was, given that heinous criminals re-offend with the regularity of laxative users.

The new Tower of Babel

I was reading an excerpt from David Frum’s new book Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again and it occurred to me that the difference between conservatives and liberals (or as Frum put it, Republicans and Democrats) is far greater than most people might think.

The West is fooling itself

Following last week’s assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the silence emanating from most western-based Muslim organizations is deafening. Where is the outrage that organizations such as the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) or CAIR-Can should be showing over the killing of Bhutto? In this case they aren’t even bothering with the usual drivel about the assassination being strictly political and having nothing to do with Islam.

Replacing logic with smugness

There’s something about the liberal mindset that doesn’t see the necessity of logic in advancing an agenda. All that’s really needed in liberal dialectics is moral authority, which is another way of saying, “Don’t try to confuse me with facts, I’m right and you’re wrong.”

Outsourcing self-reliance

”Worst Snowstorm in 60 years”, the Toronto Sun’s headline screamed in its Sunday edition. “Crippling storm!” exclaimed the Weather Network; “travelers stymied”, said the National Post. “Women, visible minorities and gays hit hardest!” the Toronto Star exclaimed.

A discussion we shouldn’t even be having

The brutal murder of sixteen-year old Mississauga schoolgirl Aqsa Parvez, allegedly at the hands of her father, brings to light some of the inherent contradictions of official multiculturalism. This is a discussion that we would not be having had we not adopted a policy of cultural equivalency, which is perhaps the most glaring weakness of the entire multicultural Ponzi scheme.

Helpless fool or crypto-fascist?

Toronto City Councilor Giorgio Mammoliti has provided a great deal of comic relief and no small amount of insight into the thought processes (such as they are) of Toronto’s Left. His call to have the Canadian Army on the streets of Toronto deal with the city’s gang-crime problem betrays either a total lack of awareness of the implications of such an action or a readiness to surrender the people’s freedoms to an armed military establishment in an effort to regulate their behavior by force.

It’s all about me!

It’s entirely possible that the “baby-boom” generation are the worst parents in the history of mankind as a significant percentage of their progeny are growing up to be unfeeling, psychopathic narcissists. A classic example is “art student” Thorarin Ingi Jonsson whose 15 minutes of fame came about as a result of a fake bomb scare he called in to the Royal Ontario Museum just as an AIDS fundraiser was about to start. According to Jonsson, this was an “art project” and it resulted in the Aids fundraiser being cancelled as the ROM had to be evacuated.

Poverty statistics: confusing illusion with reality

For some reason there’s no such thing as good news in Canada. Even as taxes are being lowered, unemployment is at a 30-year low, the dollar trading at a historic high and all economic indicators pointing upward, the poverty industry tells us that things are worse than ever.

The great climate change extortion racket

Anyone who still believes that the Kyoto Accord is about actually reducing so-called greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is in dire need of therapy. Kyoto is now and has always been about redistributing wealth. Recent statements by countries such as Brazil and India have confirmed this to be the case as developing nations are taking the position that climate change was caused by industrialized countries and should therefore be remediated by those countries.

The siren song of environmentalism

It seems the more information that surfaces about the UN’s ineptitude, the more hysterically individuals are buying into the UN’s warnings about climate change, albeit no definitive evidence of the deleterious effects of this phenomenon have as yet been identified. Aside from a few unusually warm summers, which were also evident throughout the 1930s, no one has drowned or starved or lost a home as a direct result of global warming. No islands have been inundated, no flash flooding has occurred in the northern latitudes and 15 minutes ago as I stepped outside the temperature was still below the freezing mark.