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Tariq Ramadan brings 'Islamist doubletalk' to Montreal

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:18:45 +0000

(I wonder what guards will ask him at the airport... ) Tarek Fatah writes: Tariq Ramadan made it very clear. He was not opposed to sharia law coming to Canada; he just didn't think it was the right time to introduce it. (...) Taken aback, I was reminded ...

Kathy Shaidle posted 47 hours ago from fivefeetoffury.com

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OK, so this is how I ended up working with three different guys named Matt

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:22:05 +0000

Really we need the data on babies born 30 years ago, but this is still pretty stunning: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

The Monkey Cage found this 34 hours ago on scienceblogs.com

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Global Nominal Spending History

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:35:03 +0000

As someone who believes that stabilizing nominal spending rather than inflation is key to macroeconomic stability, I have taken the liberty in the past to reframe U.S. macroeconomic history according to this perspective. Thus, I renamed (1) the " Great Inflation " that started in the mid-1960s ...

Ezra Klein found this 2 days ago on macromarketmusings.blogspot.com

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Pro Musica Hebraica

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:13:01 +0000

Pro Musica Hebraica is devoted to presenting lost and forgotten masterpieces of Jewish classical music in a concert-hall setting. Our first two concerts at Washington's Kennedy Center featured critically-acclaimed performances by Itzhak Perlman and musicians from the Juilliard School and the ARC ...

Power Line found this 37 hours ago on promusicahebraica.org

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Expatica The Netherlands

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:54:00 +0000

According to a new poll, residents of sub-Saharan African countries are the most likely to want to move abroad permanently. Washington -- Some 700 million people worldwide, or more than all the adults of North and South America combined, think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence ...

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS found this 2 days ago on expatica.com

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Dissident in Canada liveblogs the protests in Iran

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 06:37:12 +0000

Soon-to-be Canadian citizen Winston will need lots of coffee today.

Kathy Shaidle posted 4 days ago from fivefeetoffury.com

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'We are seeing steady interest in ''Tyranny of Nice'...'

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:24:23 +0000

Kathy Shaidle’s [and Pete Vere's!] excellent summary of the human rights industry in Canada. With a substantial Introduction by Mark Steyn , this little book for only $10 makes an excellent concise summary of the real dangers human rights commissions pose to fundamental ...

Kathy Shaidle posted 4 days ago from fivefeetoffury.com

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Free Speech and Liberty Symposium: Dec 7 -- Ottawa

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:11:14 +0000

Sign up today! Via email... CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY STUDIES Free Speech and Liberty Symposium December 7 - Ottawa, Ontario Join us in Ottawa December 7 as we survey Canada's historic commitment to individual liberty and how current government practices conflict with ...

Kathy Shaidle posted 4 days ago from fivefeetoffury.com

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The most important right to arms vote of 2009

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:27:50 +0000

Will take place in the Canadian House of Commons today, at approximately 5:30 p.m., Eastern Time. Bill C-391 is a private member’s bill (by Candice Hoeppner of Portage—Lisgar , Manitoba) to repeal Canada’s failed and extremely expensive long gun registry. Background information about the ...

Instapundit found this 3 days ago on volokh.com

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A Real Public Option

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:57:00 +0000

One of the most notable things about ski trips to the States from Canada was that they offered "U.S. medical insurance"—a buy-in that cost around the same as a lift ticket if you wanted to ski Stowe instead of Tremblant. One of the scariest moments in Sicko is when the Canadian relatives ...

rdan posted 11 days ago from angrybear.blogspot.com

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Australia Now the World's Largest Per Capita Carbon Emitter

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:19:53 +0000

Australia has been the worst per capita emitter before --and it remains an epic battle between the US. Now, each Australian emits 20.58 tons of carbon every year, according to a new study from Maplecroft --from driving, and from his/her reliance on coal power (how Australia gets the vast ...

small dead animals found this 11 days ago on treehugger.com

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Bloomberg: How To Develop Ur Leadership Pitch

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:38:23 +0000

Instapundit found this 11 days ago on bloomberg.com

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ThereIFixedIt.com accidentally illustrates Canada's twisted relationship with Quebec

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 09:50:41 +0000

Kathy Shaidle posted 6 days ago from fivefeetoffury.com

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Full Appeals Court Rejects Suit in Rendition Case

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:05:09 +0000

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because Congress has not authorized such suits.

How Appealing found this 5 days ago on cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

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George Jonas: repeal Canada's hate speech laws

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:13:29 +0000

George Jonas writes: A law that takes an “expansive” view of discriminatory conduct based on the subjective feelings of groups selected to be immunized against existential trauma, then bases censure or sanctions against conduct that falls short of this standard, not on ...

Kathy Shaidle posted 7 days ago from fivefeetoffury.com

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Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:07:56 +0000

John Bookbinder, in his study of Weimar Germany, observes that anti-Socialist or antisemitic violence, or for that matter inflammatory speech or writing, was dealt with harshly by the police and the judiciary during the Wilhelmine era. We need to recognize that it was only during the post-war ...

five feet of fury. (i got yer backlash ... found this 5 days ago on scaramouche.us.splinder.com

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U2 On YouTube: Here's How To Watch U2's Live Concert Online

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:49:54 +0000

U2 is streaming their concert tonight from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California live to YouTube. As the site announced earlier this week, some 16 countries will be able to view the show live: Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New ...

Rover found this 13 days ago on huffingtonpost.com

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Ex-Dorsey Partner Kills Himself on Eve of Insider Trading Deal

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:15:00 +0000

A former Toronto partner of Dorsey & Whitney has killed himself, reportedly on the eve of a settlement in a criminal insider trading investigation. Lawyer Gil Cornblum killed himself yesterday, according to stories in Bloomberg and the Toronto Globe and Mail. U.S. and Canadian officials had ...

Above the Law found this 10 days ago on abajournal.com

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'Rationing' and other scare words in health debate

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:22:45 +0000

If you've been paying attention to the health care debate, you've no doubt heard these buzzwords from opponents of the Democratic plan: Rationing. Euthanasia. Death Panels. Socialized medicine. Canada and Britain. They have been written on posters, yelled at town hall meetings, and repeated by ...

Iowa Independent found this 11 days ago on politifact.com

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Hey look: they finally agree with us!

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:07:56 +0000

Too stupid to really be Jewish? New CJC website (accidentally) admits: To compare the situation of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s to present-day Canada is ludicrous.

Kathy Shaidle posted 5 days ago from feedproxy.google.com

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