Archive for 'Politics'

A look at the extreme right-wing of America

This weekend was a showcase for the extreme right-wing voters of America. It was the Values Vote Summit, where all the Republican Presidential nominees have their chance to give a speech and then the participating voters choose who they like best in a straw poll. The speeches are highly catered to that extreme right-wing audience [...]

Ontario makes bad choice in election

Ontario will continue to be led by the awful Dalton McGuinty for at least four more years. More than half of people eligible to vote in the Ontario provincial elections yesterday chose not to. Due to this indifference on the part of citizens, Ontario will likely not see the deteriorating health care system improve in [...]

Herman Cain will never win

Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain has about as much of a chance at winning the Republican nomination as the board game Scrabble has at becoming an Olympic sport. Herman Cain, who is African American, has no chance at becoming the Republican nominee for President in the 2012 election. There is no way that Republicans will [...]

New Canadian copyright bill will affect Canadians

The Conservative-led federal government is once again looking to pass an updated copyright bill in Canada that will govern what Canadians can and cannot do with copyrighted music, videos, etc… It isn’t the first time they have tried to pass this bill, but it is the first time they have tried with their new majority, [...]

Ontario election debate

Last night we had the only Ontario election debate before the vote on October 6. It included the top three candidates: current Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal), Tim Hudak (Progressive Conservative) and Andrea Horwath (NDP). I didn’t expect to see the next Bill Clinton up there impressing everyone and I was certainly right in my low [...]

Big winner from 2011 UN General Assembly

Every year the countries of the world gather at the UN headquarters in New York City. The leaders of each country gives a speech to the world about anything they wish. Hot topics often include tensions between certain countries, wars, famine, etc… Over the last few years, an important topic has been discussed a lot [...]

Protectionism rears its ugly head again

When the recession of 2008 began and politicians around the world were trying to figure out a way to dig them out of the hole, they all entertained various protectionist ideas. We all remember the ‘Buy America’ provision in the U.S. Canada was able to get an exemption from it, but the idea was already [...]

Closer to settling climate change debate

Although some people do not like to admit it, the scientific community is not in unanimous agreement over global warming being caused by humans. Most scientists do believe that this is the case, but there certainly are some that are not so sure. Recently however, an experiment was conducted by CERN (multinational organization with some of the [...]

Obama hopes people call in after speech

Last night President Obama gave a speech to the nation about his new jobs plan. He had many ideas and policies, many of which seem good. Democrats and Independents will like this plan. Republicans will only like small parts of it here and there. The President knew this going in, but the speech made it [...]

Iran uses nuclear power for electricity

Iran has achieved what they “say” they wanted to achieve with their nuclear program all along. They are successfully generating electricity into their grid from a nuclear plant. You would think this would be a surprise to the rest of the world, but it’s not because the U.S., Israel and other nations are watching their [...]