Author: Jon Siemko

  • Mark Steyn On Galloway

    From Mark Steyn

    University bureaucracies are not making it easy for groups like Hillel to push back against those who would deligitimize Israel and make excuses for terrorist organizations. “There’s something very wrong with Canadian education when Canadian universities will fund and support the appearance of a man like George Galloway while Christie Blatchford gets banned from the University of Waterloo and gets compared to Julius Streicher.”

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  • McGuinty Wearing Out His Welcome

    Term limits for political leaders what a novel idea.

    From National Post 

    Ontario’s Dalton McGuinty is looking at an election a year from now, for what would be his third term. If he had any brains he wouldn’t run, but he fully intends to. McGuinty was lucky he won a second term — many Ontarians had had their fill of him after just four years, but the divided Tories ran such sorry campaign he was all but handed a freebie. This time isn’t likely to be so easy, and he has little to run on: Ontario’s economy is sputtering and choking like an engine on its last few ounces of gas. His spending record is appalling: record deficit, record debt,  almost $10 billion a year in servicing charges. Taxes are up, electricity costs are skyrocketing. So bankrupt is McGuinty of ideas that when Finance Minister Dwight Duncan discovered the deficit would be $1 billion less than forecast,  he immediately spent it to subsidize hydro rates.