Recent Posts Tagged With 'war on terror'

• From Karzai to Cammalleri: Random Rants

  Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 12:00 in republican, conservative, obama, al qaeda, war on terror, afghanistan, alberta, Stephen Harper, calgary flames, karzai, olli jokinen, michael cammalleri

  Watching Obama take the United States down the path to socialism is like a vivid nightmare. For non-leftwing Canadians (yes, we do exist) who have lived our entire lives in a soft-socialist nation, it feels like barely surviving a plane crash only to...

• Wide Open: Insecurity at the Refinery

  Posted on Monday March 23rd, 2009 at 16:30 in Security, Canada, Economy, war on terror, alberta, refinery

  “If people had any clue how lax the security here was”, he chuckled, “they’d lose it.”At the time, the words carried very little weight. Still a novice in my job as a security officer at the Refinery, my partner’s comment sparked some cur...

• Playing the Odds

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 15:24 in NAFTA, obama, Al Gore, war on terror, Stephen Harper, gitmo, stimulus package

  For the gambling fan, here’s the line:Odds that the Obama stimulus package will fix the economic problems: 50 to 1It’s not all bad, but spending the way out of a hole was already tried – and failed – in the 1930’s. If Obama had gone the oth...

• Worthy Activism: The Other Russia

  Posted on Friday January 23rd, 2009 at 14:34 in war on terror, russia, putin, fascism, kasparov, the other russia

  There is a common misguided practice of thinking that activism is the sole possession of the political left.With unlimited footage of anti-war protests filling the airwaves for the first decade of the 21st century, added to the understated avenues of...

• Unlikely Friends

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 14:22 in Canada, obama, war on terror, afghanistan, Stephen Harper

  Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks to Canadian soldiers in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Canadian love-in with Barack Obama hit its crescendo on Tuesday with the Inauguration ceremony. The buzz was so great (reminder: he’s not OUR president) it ma...

• The First Cut is the Deepest

  Posted on Thursday January 15th, 2009 at 15:00 in bush, obama, iraq, war on terror, afghanistan, 9 11

  The very first test President-elect Obama faces could be his toughest, and depending on what path he takes, it could not only determine his chances for a second term but his whole presidential legacy overall.In preparation for his move into the White...

• Running a P.C. War

  Posted on Thursday January 8th, 2009 at 16:16 in war on terror, afghanistan, taliban, rick hillier, robert semrau

  Canadians who are part of the anti-war crowd (also known as ‘the unemployed’) have been ripping into the latest incident in Afghanistan like a pit bull into a toy poodle.Not content to just limit their embarrassing comments to the usual inappropr...

• Return of the Hammer and Sickle

  Posted on Monday December 29th, 2008 at 19:03 in cold war, war on terror, russia, putin, fascism, communism

  Like an astute chess player, an old adversary has taken advantage of an opportunity and has risen to once again become a global threat. While our focus and resources are being monopolized by the War on Terror (not to mention the meaningless and seemi...