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Canada ranked in Top 5 for economic freedom Sarah Boesveld, National Post · Sept. 18, 2012 | Last Updated: Sept. 18, 2012 3:02 AM ET Canada has taken its place among the Top 5 countries with the most economic freedom, according to a new Fraser Institute report - now leaps and bounds ahead of the United States thanks to the gradual shrinking of the Canadian government since the mid-1990s as America's just got bigger. The annual Economic Freedom of the World report, released Tuesday, has Canada tied in fifth place with Australia - up one spot from last year. Hong...

3/30: The Dead and Bill O'Reilly on The View It's The View Like You've Never Seen It! Whoopi, Barbara, Joy, Elisabeth, Sherri...and The Dead! Don't miss this rare TV appearance as the boys get ready to hit the road. - when: Monday 3/30, 10am Eastern/Pacific, 11am Central - where: Your local ABC station - what: Interview & Performance Click here for more details.

Reading Ann Coulter’s latest book, Guilty: Liberal Victims and their Assault on America, one almost feels sorry for her. It’s painfully clear she has crossed the threshold of her half life. Her mantra that liberals are pitiable, conniving, traitorous losers and that conservatives are valorous, patriotic administrative geniuses plays poorly against the backdrop of the hand-over from George W. Bush to Barack Obama. Imagine penning a panegyric to dirigible travel while crossing the Atlantic on the Hindenburg.More at National Post - Full Comment

I’ve Notified The FBI – But That Won’t be EnoughThursday, October 30, 2008 By Howard Galganov “Howard -- The next 6 days are going to be the toughest we've seen, and I need your support to reach as many voters as possible. Donate $5 or more today to strengthen this movement for the final push. This campaign is in your hands. Thank you for everything you're doing - Barack” The preceding is just one of many letters (emails) I’ve received from Barak Obama. He wants me to donate money to his campaign. But if I do, I would be breaking...

Her Name Is Governor PalinWednesday, October 29, 2008 By Howard Galganov Why are they called Senators Obama, Biden and McCain, while she is called just Sarah, or just Sarah Palin? Why isn’t she called Governor Palin or just Governor? Not to refer to her by her proper title is not just insulting and demeaning, it is also horribly dishonest. Even past governors such as Huckabee and Romney are still referred to as Mr Governor when spoken to or introduced. Rudy Giuliani is still called Mr Mayor. And he hasn’t been the Mayor of New York for almost 2 terms. When...

<p>Fire officials found three separate “points of origin,” all near the intersection of Silverado Canyon Road and Santiago Canyon Road. Two were on one side of the road, and the third was on the other. “Whoever did this knew what they were doing,” said Kris Concepcion, a fire authority battalion chief. Also, the fire traveled 3 miles in its first 20 minutes when it was ignited about 6 p.m. Sunday, he said.</p>

----- Original Message ----- From: maillist@michaelmoore.com   Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:36 AM Subject: A Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives A Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives November 14th, 2006 To My Conservative Brothers and Sisters, I know you are dismayed and disheartened at the results of last week's election. You're worried that the country is heading toward a very bad place you don't want it to go. Your 12-year Republican Revolution has ended with so much yet to do, so many promises left unfulfilled. You are in a funk, and I understand. Well, cheer up, my friends! Do not...

You Never Know What You’ve Got 'til It’s Gone. Monday, November 06, 2006 Politics In General By Howard Galganov The possibility of the USA going Democrat at both the Senate and the House of Representatives at tomorrow’s election might not be all that bad for the Republicans or the USA. Just like it wasn’t all that bad that Israel was kicked around by Hezbollah during this past summer’s war against Lebanon. The words in the song say: “You never know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone” has real meaning. And very often when it’s gone - it’s just too...

November 02, 2006Anybody out there seen my book?You won't sell my book in Canada? Why, I'm flatteredMARK STEYN Some years ago, back when this here Internet thing that the kids are crazy over was brand new, I remember reading a piece about Amazon.com. And some fellow was wondering whether he should invest in Amazon.com. "No," said the big financial journalist, "you should be amazon.com."From the murky slough of my memory, this thought swam up to the surface for the first time in years. The other day my new book was published -- as you may recall, if only because...

CanWest News Services [Transcribed from print version] National Post, page A11 Steamy sex? Dream on, liberals By Chris Lackner OTTAWA * If you’ve recently dreamed about sex with a stranger, flying or the dead coming back to life, chances are you’re probably a liberal rather than a conservative. A dream researcher from John F. Kennedy University near San Francisco has discovered fundamental differences between the dream worlds of people who identify themselves as ideologically left- or right-wing. Among his findings, Kelly Bulkeley discovered liberals are more restless sleepers and have a higher number of bizarre, surreal dreams, including fantasy settings...

In Defense of War Photographers While some criticism is warranted, the current controversy over manipulated or staged pictures from Lebanon has been fueled by speculative, unfounded, or politically-driven charges that have tainted all of the brave photographers who cover conflict in the Middle East. By Greg Mitchell (August 22, 2006) -- With most others in the mainstream media silent, I rise here in support of the overwhelming number of press photographers in the Middle East who bravely, under horrid conditions, in recent weeks have sent back graphic and revealing pictures from the war zones, only to be smeared, as a...

As received from "Dronebuster", at Free Dominion. An acquaintance of mine who I have been speaking to a few times during the summer, Marc Balestrieri - a Catholic canon lawyer - has just heard back unofficially from Rome on John Kerry's public support for abortion. It's unofficially official - John Kerry is a heretic and is excommunicated. Here is the website: www.defide.com. Click on the paper to read the 4 page judgement from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (The Catholic Church's doctrinal department) Last paragraph reads: Quote: "Consequently, if a Catholic publicly and obstinately supports the civil...

National Post | Friday » June 20 » 2003 Pro-Castro librarians accused of shushing rivals Joseph Brean National Post Friday, June 20, 2003 A cold war has broken out at a librarians' conference in downtown Toronto as accusations fly that pro-Castro elements within the American Library Association are trying to silence debate over Cuba's crackdown on independent libraries. The battle has laid the groundwork for the improbable scenario of a shouting match among librarians at a meeting tomorrow. The ALA has "secretly manoeuvered to have only pro-Cuban voices" on a discussion panel, said Robert Kent, a co-founder of the Friends...

May. 11, 2003. 08:25 AM Conspiracy crusader doubts official 9/11 version MICHELE LANDSBERG Barrie Zwicker gazes calmly into the camera, hands clasped, voice clear and resonant, looking the quintessential Canadian progressive: a colourful knitted vest over an open-collared shirt, a neat little beard, a personality that radiates boyish, almost naive friendliness.Not a shard of irony, not a sliver of petulant, up-to-date narcissism.Perfect. You couldn't possibly be more agreeable or less threatening. Then, of course, he ruins it all by asking questions. They are questions that 99 per cent of Canadian journalists have not dared or deigned to ask, and...

National Post | Thursday » April 10 » 2003 Welcome to Anglo-Saxon reality Mark Steyn National Post Thursday, April 10, 2003 Well, this whole quagmire seems to be getting worse, eh? I see the Yanks have now been reduced to staging fake scenes of supposed jubilation on the alleged streets of what the Pentagon assures us is Baghdad. If you pause the video, you'll see the guy on the right jumping up and down thwacking his shoe on the head of Saddam's toppled statue is actually Richard Perle disguised as an Iraqi cab driver and the woman standing next to...

The Iraqi Affair - Maybe It's More Than Meets The Eye. By Howard Galganov 2/11/2003   There is far more at play than a "simple" invasion of Iraq. And that is becoming more evident everyday. It should be no surprise, that after the fall of the Soviet Union, Europe would change significantly. After-all; without a Communist threat, and competing cultural and economic ideologies, European countries all of a sudden are at liberty to pursue other directions and interests. All of this thanks to the USA and NATO. And this is the rub. Without the NEED to be protected from...

Analysis Failure of the 82nd airborne As the US prepares for war on Iraq, its troops in Afghanistan are coming under increasing attack from the forces they were sent to dig out Dan PleschThursday December 19, 2002The Guardian American forces in Afghanistan have suffered a series of setbacks during 2002, and a year after the fall of the Taliban the US army is under almost daily attack in its bases in eastern Afghanistan. In the latest incident, in Kabul yesterday, two American soldiers were seriously injured in a grenade attack. The main US force in the country is the...

Ottawa Citizen    |       Monday » November 25 » 2002 Iraq seizes on 'moron' remarkParty paper claims U.S. president is hated and ridiculed in West Jim Bronskill The Ottawa Citizen Monday, November 25, 2002 The news organ of Iraq's ruling party has seized upon the reference to U.S. President George W. Bush as a "moron" by Jean Chrétien's spokeswoman, using the remark to argue the American leader "is given all sorts of bad names, especially in the West." The Baath party daily Ath-Thawra pointed yesterday to the recent comment from Mr. Chrétien's director of communications, Françoise Ducros,...

Canada has earned America's suspicion   David Frum NationalPostSaturday, November 02, 2002 Canada just won itself an expensive victory in the United States.On Thursday, the Americans agreed to exempt Canadian passport-holders from a new rule requiring all persons born in Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and Sudan to be fingerprinted and photographed before entry into the United States. Foreign Minister Bill Graham extracted this concession with some very noisy diplomacy: Canada even posted a travel advisory warning Canadian citizens born in those five countries against traveling to the United States. From now on, naturalized Canadians born in the member states...

Canada Versus The USA. By Howard Galganov        10/24/2002   From some of my earliest grade-school recollections, I remember more than just one of my teachers telling the class how Americans have no culture. But Canadians do. And in these lessons, we learned about our "steep culture", including our colonial past and membership in the Commonwealth. I even recollect singing "God Save The Queen" every morning. How utterly Canadian. When I was in highschool, it was more of the same, especially when it came to any discussion of the war in Vietnam. To us, America was the...