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Nice plan in theory, but highly unlikely. Too many people (and corporations) are making millions off this war (and Afghanistan) to be able to turn the "spigott" off on a set date. They will still be there in 2011 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama said Friday he plans to withdraw most U.S...

The latest from the increaingly strident and desperate far right fringe Of course they're selling it (gotta make a buck on everything not nailed down) O.B.A.M.A. One Big A-- Mistake, America. Barack Obama is a Marxist and is opposed to the conservative values that made America great. His...

Is it just me or is every "bit" of news I read forecasting that "we're all going to hell in a handbasket and the pace is picking up" I generally scan about 5 newspapers, a couple of magazines and a few newscasts in a day and if I didn't know any better, I'd be tempted to either head for the...

Most of the dentists I know make more than doctors, engineers and accountants The chic, downtown dental clinic in Vancouver’s Yaletown neighbourhood tempts new patients with a sexy, sidewalk ad: a close-up of a woman’s mouth, glossy red lips parted as she sucks on a black cherry. Inside, in...

Are kids going to be growing up with technology overload? If the LeapFrog toy company has its way, texting will soon join reading, writing and arithmetic as a staple of early childhood eduction. Starting in June, the company will begin selling a BlackBerry-like toy called the Text & Learn. The...

Which one are you??? Survivalism is approached by its adherents in different ways, depending on their circumstances, their mindsets, and their particular concerns for the future. The following are some examples, although many survivalists fit into more than one category or orientation...

What if Iran wasn't the "bogeyman" What then? Find a new enemy? The list is getting shorter DOUG SAUNDERS Globe and Mail February 21, 2009 at 12:05 AM EST LONDON — What if the world's biggest threat, instead of growing in size and menace, simply vanished? Imagine if Iran, after years of...

What is the most important event in history? It doesn't have to be beneficial or need be a single event but should be within the last 10,000 yrs The list below is from Wikipedia 1. The birth of Christianity 2. The invention of gunpowder. 3. The invention of the printing press. 4. The...

I guess Cheney's crystal ball just wasn't the way to go about it. Now, I guess, they'll go get him??? It's a bit of a fixer-upper, and the neighbourhood can get awfully violent. But on the upside, there's a $25-million finder's fee. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles...

With Netanyahu at the helm of the Israeli gov't, don't expect peace anytime soon especially if he "gets in bed" with Lieberman (a far right fringe war hawk) JERUSALEM — Hawkish politician Benjamin Netanyahu urged his centrist rivals to join him in a unity coalition after Israel's ceremonial...

Wasn't he here to see Harpo? Maybe he knows something we don't? or possiblely it's just Obama's "wishful thinking..... THE OBAMA VISIT: IGGY'S 25 MINUTES Compliments, common friends and some politics too In a chat 10 minutes longer than planned, Ignatieff tries to show easy rapport with...

Damm. Now the food's not even safe NOW it's official: genes from genetically modified corn have escaped into wild varieties in rural Mexico. A new study resolves a long-running controversy over the spread of GM genes and suggests that detecting such escapes may be tougher than previously...

....weird... just weird Letter From J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), to the President's Special Consultant, Admiral Sidney Souers Washington, July 7, 1950 My Dear Admiral: For some months representatives of the FBI and of the Department of Justice...

SINGAPORE -- Memos from North Korean nuclear negotiators are not your average cookbook fodder, but perhaps the world would be a better place if they were, Chris Fair suggests in her genre-defying "culinary castigation" of 10 foreign policy hotspots. Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other...

Maybe if everyone put on the rattiest clothes, the gov't would finally clue in Clifford Firmin hated "the sweater test." Growing up in St. Thomas, Ont., during the 1930s, he needed handouts. His father, James, a laid-off railway worker, was a single parent raising two boys on pocket change...

Maybe Harpo can take a few pointers from Obama on Leadership The most popular mantra in Washington these days is, "Never miss an opportunity to make use of a crisis." It's human nature to like old shoes; they may not really fit us that well, but we're used to them and they're kind of cozy...

Since the death of Canadian Conservatism a few years back, do you think it can be "revived?" Since the Harper government came to power three years ago, many media opinion leaders and opposition cohorts have argued that it is a one man show. Effectively, Stephen sits in the big chair, pushes...

MacLeans Magazine Written by Andrew Coyne on Thursday, January 29, 2009 A plausible explanation for the constant "flip-flopping" of Harpo? How Harper sold out to save himself. Say what you like about the Tories: they don’t do things by halves. When they spend, they spend. When they go...

The fringe right are digging in to defend Jarge. Good thing Bush begged for a promise of no criminal action from The President.... By Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com | 2/16/2009 Two of Congress's most radical members believe George W. Bush's America was the equal of apartheid...

Apparently white supremacy has become resurgent after the last election in the US. It's drifting towards polarization and more "fringe" ideological media is rearing it's ugly head Hal Turner Show Honest talk in a time of universal deceit After the pending Second American Revolution...