By Frank Moher Since Tuesday evening, alleged progressives in both the U.S. and Canada have been celebrating the re-election of an American president who, in his first term: – Signed the National Defense Authorization Act, the most damaging piece of legislation to US civil liberties since Roosevelt interned Asian-Americans. (During the campaign, a very confused […]
Friendly Canadian input on the US election
By David Taub Bancroft The sun is shining. The flowers are blooming. We are in a year that is divisible by four. I think we all know what that means. In a matter of months, our American friends will once again start hanging chads or whatever it is they do to hold a presidential election, […]
How the new media elected the Democrats
By Frank Moher The real winners of the American election are the new electronic media who, through relentless pounding of a sort only they can do, impressed upon voters just what a mess their country had become. I’m talking about online magazines like Salon, which, unlike many a journalistic johnny-come-lately, knew that the Iraq war […]