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The Braidwood inquiry into the tasering death of Robert Dziekanski is about as serious a wake up call as a nation can face.

Afghanistan Debacle On The Horizon?

President Obama is trying to decide our military strategy in Afghanistan. He is mulling over input from his civilian and military advisers, and members of Congress, but he cannot make a timely decision because of his lack of military and national security experience. His community organizing background is not very helpful in this situation.

October in Ontario

BLAZING SUMAC ON THE HILL GOLDEN PUMPKINS IN A MOUND WOOD-SMOKE IN THE EVENING CHILL LEAFY-CARPETS ON THE GROUND

A truly desperate party

To the surprise of nobody the Liberals continue to give us plenty of reasons to make sure in the next federal election, whenever that may be, they remain in opposition where they clearly belong. They continue to be a party in chaos lacking direction and identity and now fractured along French and English lines. Recent reports of Liberals wanting to cross the floor may mean Centrist Liberals are willing to leave their party to join the center and right of center Conservatives.

Tax The Sick: Obama’s New Plan

Faced with a need to scrounge for revenue to fund his plan for health care, President Barack Obama and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus have come up with a brilliant new idea: Tax the sick!

Afghanistan

Re "U.S. Review of Battle Disaster Sways Strategy on Afghanistan." (N.Y Times)

Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn’t Cause Global Warming

A noted geologist who coauthored the New York Times bestseller Sugar Busters has turned his attention to convincing Congress that carbon dioxide emissions are good for Earth and don't cause global warming. Leighton Steward is on Capitol Hill this week armed with studies and his book Fire, Ice and Paradise in a bid to show senators working on the energy bill that the carbon dioxide cap-and-trade scheme could actually hurt the environment by reducing CO2 levels.

OCTOBER TIME

BLAZING SUMAC ON THE HILL GOLDEN PUMPKINS IN A MOUND WOOD SMOKE IN THE EVENING CHILL

Will President Obama Veto Health Reform?

With the Senate Finance Committee poised to pass health care legislation, the final contours of the bill that could come out of Congress are starting to come into focus. The bill will contain new taxes on the middle class. It will add to the deficit. And it will put government bureaucrats between Americans and their doctors, among other things.

Antarctic Ice Melt at Lowest Levels in Satellite Era

-World Climate Report

The ice melt across during the Antarctic summer (October-January) of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history.

Such was the finding reported last week by Marco Tedesco and Andrew Monaghan in the journal Geophysical Research Letters:

Inconvenient Censorship

Stanford University has banned a skeptical documentary film from airing a climate change interview with one of its prominent warming activist professors, Stephen Schneider. After legal threats from Stanford University -- apparently on behalf of Prof. Schneider -- the documentary filmmakers were forced to use a blank screen and an actor had to read the transcript of Schneider's already taped but legally banned climate interview.

Canada’s swine flu propaganda hits resistance

A Canadian TV news station has asked viewers for feedback on whether Health Canada is rolling out its mass "swine flu" vaccinations fast enough...This is one canadian's responce:

British pedophile being investigated in connection with Madeleine McCann case, part 1

Private investigators working for the parents of missing Madeleine McCann are now examining a pedophile that was in the area of Portugal the family was staying when the little girl disappeared, according to the Mirror.

CNSNews.com - Finance Committee Democrat Won’t Read Text of Health Bill, Says Anyone Who Claim

CNSNews.com - Finance Committee Democrat Won’t Read Text of Health Bill, Says Anyone Who Claims They’ll Understand It ‘Is Try.

Coach:

"Team, We are all loyal and heroic Socialists here, as you know very well. Even so, I remind you once again that the fastest runner in this race will be executed for vanity and egotism as well as for insulting his teammates,...

Innovative Canadian Business Makes a Difference

Essentia opened its flagship store in Toronto's Beach area. Jack Dell'Accio, the founder and owner of Essentia Group, spent more than 3.5 million dollars in his development of the first and only toxin-free, memory foam mattress. As a Canadian, he wanted to open his first store in Toronto with the second and third stores planned for London, England and Vancouver, BC respectively. In these uncertain economic times, it's quite a gutsy move, however, as Essentia is an innovative company with a unique product, it will surely be a move in the right direction.

Female Genital Mutilation, Islam and Leftist Silence

My recent NewsReal blog on Naomi Wolf and female genital mutilation (FGM) – also posted at Frontpagemag.com and Jihadwatch.org — has triggered a heated debate in the blogs’ comments sections on all three sites. The key arguments in these three sections personify some of the Left’s key tactics in its romance with tyranny and terror. It is crucial to shed light on these arguments in order to crystallize the maliciousness, dishonesty and heartlessness which lie at the center of the leftist agenda. It also helps strengthen our efforts to fight on behalf of tyranny’s victims, which, in this case, are the hundreds of thousands of young girls who face the barbarity of female genital mutilation yearly around the world.

Obama’s Internet Supporters Are All Pot Heads and Poker Addicts

You know, we all love the Internet. Heck, I make a good portion of my living on Al Gore’s most famous invention so it gets a big thumbs up from me, for sure. But we have to admit that there are an awful lot of goofballs on these Internet tubes. In some ways, the whole venue isn’t quite ready from prime time, if you will.

DeMint Will Lead Delegation to Honduras Today

October 2, 2009 - WASHINGTON, D.C - U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, and announced that he will lead a delegation of U.S. Congressmen to Honduras today. The group will include U.S. Representatives Aaron Schock (R-Illinois), Peter Roskam (R-Illinois), and Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado). They plan to meet with Honduran President Roberto Micheletti, members of the Honduran Supreme Court, election officials, and Honduran business and civic leaders.

Palin cover released

On Monday night, Harper announced that Sarah Palin’s memoir would be hitting the stores early, arriving just in time for Christmas. By yesterday, the book, which was written with the help of WORLD senior writer Lynn Vincent, had already risen to the top of the bestseller lists at the two major online retailers, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, with sales that skyrocketed so quickly, it led one publishing industry source to call it “truly unprecedented.”