It’s only Tuesday and already our Columnist section is brimming with smart-thoughts.
Rebecca Hagelin fires a salvo in the direction of the supposedly conservative, who seemed to have forgotten some of the core conservative principles. Here’s a snippet:
[…] So where does the increased spending go? To things like a 2002 farm bill estimated to cost $180 billion over 10 years. To a Medicare drug bill estimated to cost $724 billion in its first 10 years and as much as $2 trillion over the following decade. And so on. Nobody is refused, it seems, unless it’s someone calling for restraint and responsibility.
But that appears to be changing. GOP leaders are listening. And President Bush has signaled that he will help, too, noting at a recent news conference that “Congress needs to pay for as much of the hurricane relief as possible by cutting spending” and noting that he would “work with members of Congress to identify offsets.”
And why is this necessary? Because if we hope to leave a legacy of economic opportunity to our children—rather than saddling them with incredible debt and high taxes—then the bedrock conservative principle of limited government must be restored as the foundation of our nation. […]
Paul Jackson fires a hard-hitting salvo in the direction of the increasingly desperate-sounding “Reckless PM”
Prime Minister Paul Martin today in his column in our Columnist section.
Shipping Tycoon Paul Martin is charting our nation into treacherous waters with his sabre-rattling against Washington on softwood lumber, energy and, apparently, just about everything else in our “monumental’ economic arsenal.
Martin—one of the richest men in our country, meaning it hardly matters to him how many of the rest of us lose our jobs—is threatening a trade war with the mighty U.S.
That Canada’s economy is roughly only the same size of California seems to have escaped Martin. His threats are hardly going to have President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney nervously biting their nails.
Yet Martin’s scenario is not only flawed—it’s frightening.
More than 80% of Canadian exports go to the U.S. One in four Canadian jobs directly depends on those exports, and 50% of all Canadian jobs directly or indirectly are linked them.
We also sneaked a column by our friend Lydia Lovric in yesterday. Lydia Lovric graces our Columnist section occasionally with her good thoughts. Here’s a snippet as she fires a salvo at liberals who simply don’t get that whole “child care” thing:
The proof is in the pudding. Unfortunately, the federal Liberals just aren’t biting. Yet another study confirms what most of us instinctively know: Kids do best when raised by a stay-at-home mother.
In what’s being described as the “most in-depth study of the subject to date,” British researchers conclude children raised by stay-at-home mothers are more socially and emotionally advanced than those cared for by nannies or grandparents. Kids placed in daycare fared worst when it came to developmental tests.
And Jennifer Roback Morse once again blows us away with her insightful thoughts, this time on divorce and how terribly it affects kids, in Divided They Fall.
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[…] But divorce creates a whole constellation of adults circling around the child. Besides the parents, there are stepparents or new girlfriends or new boyfriends. Often, there are grandparents in the picture, sometimes more than one set. It is tough to get two quarreling parents to work with us: it is almost impossible to get all these adults on the same page. The child can always find someone who will intervene on behalf of their Precious Little Darling Who Has Never Done Anything Wrong in His Whole Life. […]
And finally, John Martin fires a much-needed wake up and smell the coffee salvo onto the BC teachers’ union self-aggrandizement-fest.
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[..] Now Jinny Sims of the B.C. teacher’s union is suggesting the illegal walkout is not unlike the southern U.S. civil rights protests during the sixties.
In particular, she drew a comparison between the striking members and the bravery of a young Rosa Parks. Parks shocked a nation some forty years ago when, after a long tiring day at work, she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man.
By openly defying the rules and rigors of segregation, Rosa Parks became a symbol and leader in the fight for equality and civil rights. Like other civil rights protesters who refused to abide by the laws banning Blacks from restaurants, public washrooms and other facilities, Rosa Parks has earned a special place in history.
And now teachers, with a cardboard sign in one hand and Styrofoam cup of coffee in the other, consider themselves one and the same with the freedom marchers.
Please stop flattering yourselves. […]
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