Klaus Rohrich

The “Moronification Factor”

The other day, I ran across a column in the National Post penned by CFRB Radio’s afternoon talk-jock, John Moore.

Ontario: Happy Family Day, suckers

Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty is famous for lying to voters, having broken nearly 100% of his over 230 election promises that he made during the 2003 campaign against Ernie Eves.

The culture of surrender

In case you’re wondering why Islam is the fastest growing religion in most western countries, it’s because our own religious leaders aren’t particularly interested in the preservation of our religious heritage.

Liberals rooting for the Taliban

It appears the Taliban Wing of the Liberal Party of Canada has taken control of the party and is issuing policy statements demanding that Canadian troops get out of Afghanistan.

The fine art of debate- liberal style

Anyone who has ever debated someone of the liberal persuasion is aware that in those debates certain rules apply. Take the (non)debate over global warming, or climate change, as more prescient liberals have begun to call it.

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.