Let’s start today with a couple of mind-blowing statements from a couple of astonishing sources. First, our old friend Conrad. I suppose if you are sentenced to jail in another country you can’t be expected to always keep up with what’s going on outside the slammer. Take, for example, the following from Conrad this [...]
Paul Krugman, writing in The New York Times, tells us that thanks to the obscene George W. Bush tax cuts, the richest 120,000 people in the U.S. will make $3 million each. If these tax cuts are continued, the cost to Washington over the next decade will be $680 billion!!! Almost all of this [...]
Phew! What a relief! Now we can all sleep easier. The experts in our Senate have “studied” the matter and now tell us not to worry about drilling for oil in the deep Atlantic where new wells will be twice as deep as in the Gulf of Mexico, and not in the Arctic either [...]
Next time someone writes a truly dumb column about Conrad Black (see the oped page in The Globe), remind them about Black’s profound declaration that “caring and compassion really means socialism.” What do you say we get him a job in the main food bank in Toronto if he’s ever allowed back into this [...]
Rick Salutin points out that the U.S. military budget is now 43% of what the entire rest of the world spends on their total military spending. Also, that in 1972, U.S. prisons held some 300,000 inmates. By 2008 there were 7.3 million Americans in jail, on probation or on parole. * * * * * [...]
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