Klaus Rohrich

In praise of collectivism

If anyone’s interested in what the New York Times considers a “conservative” columnist, reading the latest column by David Brooks will convey a fairly good overview. In his August 11 Times column, Brooks wrote gushingly about how China as a collectivist culture could teach the west, with its rugged individualism, a thing or two about making society work harmoniously.

Ralph Nader brings his campaign to Canada

Ralph Nader, the loonie left’s perennial presidential candidate, brought his presidential campaign to Canada this week. But then, chances are he’ll do a lot better running for president in Canada than he’ll do in the US, as his ideas for fixing what ails the US are more in line with the way Canadians tend to see things.

Ralph Nader brings his campaign to Canada

Ralph Nader, the loonie left’s perennial presidential candidate, brought his presidential campaign to Canada this week. But then, chances are he’ll do a lot better running for president in Canada than he’ll do in the US, as his ideas for fixing what ails the US are more in line with the way Canadians tend to see things.

...and they called it ‘puppy love’

The former mainstream media’s enchantment with Barack Obama can only be described as puppy love, that desperate, deeply hormonal, urgent, irrational feeling made famous by Paul Anka and legitimized by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews who felt a “tingle running up his leg” when he heard Obama speak. David Brooks, the New York Times’ alleged token conservative has even lauded Obama for his flip-flops. In a June 20th op-ed column penned by Brooks, he praised Obama for being an opportunist.

Media ignores national defense

Yesterday I had the honor to be present at a luncheon that featured a speech by CanWest Global’s Matthew Fisher, one of Canada’s few real war correspondents. Fisher talked about the paucity of resources the Canadian Media has committed to military matters. His point was that as a nation we know precious little about a war to which we have committed our best and brightest.

Disingenuous debates

Recently Canada Free Press received an email from a reader who wondered why we had heretics such as Dr. Tim Ball writing about global warming when the whole argument was settled. In fact, the letter went on to say that:

It’s time to bury Dudley George

The current brouhaha over the non-scandal involving OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino breaking up a roadblock is a textbook example of how Canada’s loonie leftists will tie themselves into pretzels in efforts to vilify the cops and side with one of the nation’s sacred aggrieved. The alleged “breach of the law” that, according to the likes of John Sewell, Fantino is guilty of involves some wiretaps that took place during last summer’s “day of protest” at the Deseronto Mohawk Reserve.

Welcome back Khadr

Canadians are the worst wooses on the planet. The amount of sympathetic wailing and hand wringing the citizens of this country are demonstrating over this “child soldier” is a clear indication that very few people in this country seem to know which side is up.

Democrats more dysfunctional than ever

Barack Obama’s people have said that Hillary Clinton will probably not be the Democratic vice presidential candidate because of her husband, Bill’s past. In explaining why the former First Lady will likely not be on the ticket, an Obama spokesman said that vice-presidential candidates must be “fully vetted”.

The gang that can’t shoot straight

How the mighty have fallen! I can barely believe that the current Liberal Party of Canada is the same Liberal Party that fielded the likes of Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chretien. Not that I ever agreed with anything they stood for, but you had to hand it to them; they knew how to gain and wield power.

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.