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National Post editorial: Rob Ford is the best choice for Toronto

Toronto desperately needs change at City Hall. Spending has increased 43% since outgoing mayor David Miller took office — salaries and benefits by 47%. Over that same time, revenue from user fees and permits rose nearly 30% and property tax revenue by nearly a quarter — far outstripping the city’s population growth. The city has anywhere from 15% to 25% more employees than it did in 1998, depending on whose numbers you go by, and very little to show for it. All candidates in this campaign agree the city faces a $503-million budget shortfall for 2011.

Thanks, CFP

I recently "discovered" Canada Free Press and want you to know that I am now a regular reader. It is refreshing to read from a slightly different but friendly perspective.

Redistributing Poverty

When a recent proposal in Congress was made requiring potential homebuyers to make a minimum five-percent down payment to qualify for loans, Democrats voted it down because, as Senator Chris Dodd, said, “Passage of such a requirement would restrict home ownership to those who can afford it.”

A politician with sense, integrity and courage—and a heart

After surviving totalitarian government in communist eastern Europe, Vaclav Klaus is now Czechoslovakia's President. Having lived most of his life under the yolk of government control he knows control when he sees it.

Prevent CO2 tragedies. End the Silence

Last week’s tragedy near North Bay, Ontario is a sorrowful reminder of the lethal consequences of carbon monoxide gas.

Unemployment cause and cure

How did unemployment grow to such devastating levels? The short answer is that, for decades, America’s been moving from economic bubble to bubble, and now, there are no more bubbles to save us. The Reagan-era unemployment, which was as bad as ours, was cured by the mass migration from manufacturing to service-sector jobs, moving from tradesman to hamburger-flippers, from longshoremen to checkout clerks. Later we were rescued from the recession of the early '90s by the dot-com boom, which busted just as the last decade’s real estate explosion took hold. The bill for that came due in September 2008, and here we are, in desperate need of magic bullets.

Dale Kildee DOES NOT LIVE IN FLINT

- KildeeMUSTGo Dale Kildee has misled the people of Michigan's 5th U.S. Congressional District since 1977! He wants us all to believe he lives here in Flint and understands crisis situation we are living through. But as you will see, he HAS NOT LIVED HERE IN DECADES.

Why Americans Are Mad

Mr. President, You are beginning to bore the hell out of us! Saul Alinsky was evil and his works are the antithesis of the Rule of Law!

Kupiec 4 Points From Beating Dale Kildee

Flint, Michigan – Republican Congressional Candidate John Kupiec pulled within 4 points of victory over 34 year incumbent Democratic Congressman Dale Kildee in Michigan’s 5th U.S. Congressional District. For the first time in history, Kildee has not led his opponent by at least 35 points.

Enormous Ring is Developing on the Sun

Source: Modern Survival blog What is this strange ring that has been developing on the Sun during 16-Oct?

Advance voters turn out in large numbers

By Don Peat We don’t know what the results will be yet but change is in the air this election season.

Former U.N. Envoy Galbraith Awarded “Between $55 - $75 Million”

If it was a U.N. envoy from the Third World we would have never heard the end of it. But Peter Galbraith is a well-connected U.S. politician. His company, Porcupine, is registered in Delaware, a state close to Washington, D.C., represented for years in Congress by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden.

Rob Ford and the real issues

-National Post There’s nobody, but nobody, in politics that has helped out black people more than I have,” quoth Rob Ford on Wednesday night during a mayoral debate at the Jamaican Canadian Centre, up Jane-and-Finch way. My jaw dropped slightly, and I checked to make sure my tape recorder was working. It was. He said it. Then I realized I seemed to be the most scandalized person in the room. Many people might assume Mr. Ford would be chased out of a debate like this, but he definitely wasn’t.

Don't blame Harper

When I heard Canada had failed to get a temporary seat on the UN Security Council, I was initially disappointed. After all, was it not Stephen Harper's ambition to regain the international prestige so badly diminished under the Liberals?

Pennsylvania Senate: Toomey (R) Grows Lead Over Sestak (D)

Rasmussen Reports Republican Pat Toomey now holds a 10-point lead over Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak, the widest gap between the candidates since early April in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race.

The Marxist Roots of Obama’s Rage II

Thank you for the well-done articles on Obama; I have followed the different, recent conservative comments about Obama with some interest. I suspect we are alike in that we both saw the danger in this man very early on. I did, for any number of reasons – I did my due diligence and researched him thoroughly, I am a ardent conservative and constitutionalist, and I am a trained historian well acquainted with the milieu from which Obama comes.

Coons is the Taxman

Dear Patriot, Our opponent thinks his campaign is Saturday Night Live.

The Socialist

Synopsis: Every age seeks visionaries to leave, in the wake of their genius, a changed world - but rarely are they found without a few strikeout also-rans getting a crack first. In 2008, millions of Americans thought they had found the real thing.

DDT Ban

I believe in the need to bring back DDT. Bed bugs are rampant here in NYC and elsewhere.

NRLC refutes his claims with sworn affidavit and documents

WASHINGTON -- The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) has produced a sworn affidavit, submitted today to the Ohio Elections Commission, demonstrating that the Obama health care law does in fact provide federal subsidies for elective abortion.