Author: Jon Siemko

From ABC
Roman dictator Julius Caesar may have been warned that deadly harm would befall him no later than March 15.
But the soothsayer who supposedly delivered the prophetic message couldn’t possibly have foretold what he would inspire, including a “Simpsons” episode called “Homer the Great, an episode of “Xena: Warrior Princess,” and a U.S. rock band from Berwyn, Ill., named the Ides of March.

Even Oscar-winner George Clooney is in on the act, reportedly finishing up filming of his “Ides of March,” a movie about a presidential campaign in which he acts and directs.

Indeed, the supposed encounter that William Shakespeare so tragically depicted in his “Julius Caesar” (“Beware the ides of March”) has become the stuff of popular culture.

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Concerning the Clooney movie, oh please not another  anti-American/anti-capitalist diatribe

It looks like student dollars are inadvertently being donated to the Liberals. How about those perpetual students at  the CFS, they aren’t rebels without a cause after all.

The Education Premier is getting low marks in Northern Ontario. The Sudbury Star commissioned a poll asking readers if the Ontario Liberals have been good for the North. Over 85% of respondents gave the Liberals record a solid thumbs down.

Now I don’t put much stock in Internet polls  because they can easily be skewed . However  these quotes give you  a small sense of how the liberals are perceived in Northern Ontario.

“The HST, the Health Tax, the G20,” said one man who voted no. “Not only has he not done a good job for the North, he hasn’t done a good job for the province period.”