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Negotiating til the end
With only a couple dozen hours remaining until Fiscal Cliff Doomsday, it’s obviously very difficult to write anything definitive about the state of the negotiations — other than that they’re in their...
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Obama’s latest adoptions
Here’s a revealing fact highlighting the truly meritocratic system of American presidential cabinet-making: while four of the last six presidential elections have been won by Democrats, four of the...
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A fun way to raise a ceiling
Remember when Rahm Emanuel made that line about never letting “a good crisis go to waste,” or whatever? Man, Republicans were livid! “What kind of opportunistic monster uses a national crisis to push a...
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America’s annoying neighbour
Tough I don’t put a lot of stock in these sorts of polls, the evidence is pretty undeniable that Canadians wanted John Kerry in White House rather than George W. Bush, and were equally solid in...
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A plugged-up economy
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty released Canada’s 2013-2014 budget yesterday, and my, what a conservative document it is. Just not in the ideological sense. With expenditures totalling over $250 billion,...
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Noko Nuko
Of all the absurd, pointless political offices in existence today, few can match the sheer dark comedy of the South Korean Ministry of Unification. Every year, South Korean citizens shill out some...
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Obummer
If he wasn’t such an obviously intelligent and educated man, you could be excused for thinking Barack Obama was a little, well, dumb. How else to explain his fast-accumulating pile of policy failures —...
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Controversies piling up
It’s been a hell of a week for anyone following North American politics. The festering scandals on both sides of the border are too numerous and complex for me to summarize at the moment, so here’s a...
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The Obama Diet
In the wake of my recent Obama-bashing, I reckon I should note that I was actually quite impressed by the President’s much ballyhooed May 23 speech on the future of the War on Terror. The video is...
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The G8′s Syrian consensus
Well, last week’s big G8 leaders’ summit in Northern Ireland seems to have been a bit of a bust, at least if the goal was achieving unanimity on the Syria question. Though all eight presidents and...
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