by Ministry of Truth I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the right to make choices concerning their bodies, you hate em all. You hate being called racist. You hate being called a bigot. Maybe if you talked [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama is playing hardball in his effort to get re-elected later this year. And if last week is any indication, a second term will be even more of a slam dunk than I thought it would be. In a move that led some to dub him “t…

Encouraging news coming out of California this week! The state senate is quickly passing some new legislation that would ban the practice of applying the unscientific and discredited practice of gay “conversion therapy” on anyone under the age of 18. The bill would also make anyone over the age of 18 sign a waver acknowledging [...]

For those of you that are interested in US foreign and covert policy history, this is of import. From The Boston Globe…

“A federal judge has ruled that a final volume of the CIA’s three-decade-old history on the failed Bay of Pigs invasio…

This is a photograph of two women being arrested in North Carolina. The crime committed? An application for a marriage license in violation of that State’s law banning same-sex marriage and their refusal to leave the government office because it…

Political leadership has been defined as figuring out where the people are going and then getting in front of them. If that’s the case, American President Barack Obama is clearly showing leadership with his support for gay marriage. A recent Pew …

There are those that might consider it a wholly political move, and there certainly is some weight to Mark Mardell’s observation on the subject…

“I have trouble believing that they thought he could avoid the question until November. But …

China has provoked outrage in the Philippines by deploying this oil platform, the country’s first deepwater drilling rig, into the South China Sea.The rig, CNOOC 981, began drilling operations yesterday in disputed waters 320 km from Hong Kong.Accordin…

North Carolina conducted a statewide study yesterday to resolve the question once and for all: Are most North Carolinians narrow-minded bigots? The answer, of course, was yes.

Dear Readers; When I was just a young lad back in the days of JFK and Diefenbaker, politics was a rather polite affair, where the best way to get votes was by telling the electorate how you were going to do better than the competition. Not what they were doing wrong, mind you, but how [...]

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. That’s a bogus expression. It creates worry, and doubt. That’s what a lot of people were feeling when Brian-Michel LaRue disappeared from online life he’d been immersed in most waking hours for the first 6 weeks during the RoboCon drama broke wide open in February. One of his last [...]

Donner winners Mark Jarvis and Lori Turnbull argue that the Prime Minister has become…

Dear Readers; I apologize for the profanity, but there really is no other way to describe it ……., The U.S. is fucking stupid! They make everyone get a passport to get across the border, and are in the process of building a wall between our two countries, when suddenly they start to panic that tourism [...]

Thomas Mulcair had news. Or, rather, he’d read the news.

It’s bothered me for quite some time how the “professional” media tends to cover campaign ads (particularly attack ads) as news, and thus goads the victim of the attack into responding in turn. It’s not a coincidence that the way to respond in turn happens to send money to the company funding the journalists failing [...]

Apparently, Iranian engineers have successfully decoded America’s captured reconnaissance drone and now Tehran intends to build a copy. The Islamic Republic’s military captured the US RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaisance aircraft last December. Di…

Thank you, students at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the State University of New York (SUNY) for writing a beautiful open letter of support of the student strike in Quebec. I am elated that three of you from Brooklyn College visited Montre…

A new age has dawned in the Americas. The Monroe Doctrine, a policy established by the United States ostensibly to keep European imperialists out of the Western Hemisphere but which eventually deteriorated into an instrument to maintain American domina…

I’ve been avoiding shrimp for close to two years because I expected this. Do you remember how the EPA said it was safe for New Yorkers to return to the area around Ground Zero, despite the obvious hazard to respiration from asbestos dust? The government’s action around the BP oil geyser is equally negligent and [...]

It apparently doesn’t look like an American on a phone reading a script that’s supposed to convince Canadians to vote for a Conservative MP. Because there is a photo of that happening last election, and yet there are no charges laid, 10 months later, to enforce Section 331 of the Elections Act. There are some [...]