Tory Redux

Author: Jon Siemko

  • McGuinty Running Out of Time

    Dalton McGuinty is a third of the three amigos slowly running out of time and the public’s patience.

    Source National Post


    In Ontario, even the Liberal Party’s Toronto Star is working up polls to show Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty has exhausted his welcome. Three-quarters of voters want to see the back of him. The Conservatives, under Tim Hudak, have 41% of support against 29% for McGuinty. You have to appreciate what this means: The Toronto Star thinks former Premier Mike Harris is the spawn of Satan, and Tim Hudak is his darkest disciple, yet they’re running polls showing Hudak could whip McGuinty — a Liberal ! — with ease. It’s blasphemy.

  • Ontario Liberals Learn Dirty Tricks at AGM

    The battle lines have been drawn in the long slow march towards the 2011 provincial election has begun. The Ontario Liberals are holding their annual general meeting  where the party is being enlightened on the art of demonetisation and dirty politics.

    Source The Record

    The Liberals will also hear from Rahaf Harfoush, a member of U.S. President Barack Obama’s campaign team and author of Yes We Did: An Insider’s Look at How Social Media Built the Obama Brand, and from Kerwin Swint, author of Mudslingers: The 25 Dirties Political Campaigns of All Time.

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    The upcoming provincial campaign will be one of the most dirty and personal in recent memory. The Liberals need a Hope and a prayer but what is clear right now is that Ontarians definitely want  change.

  • The Politics Of Tyranny

    A new book Bloodlands,  looks at the ties and similarities between two of the most recognizable names in history Hitler and Stalin. These two maniacal leaders are notably  intertwined  in the bloody history of 20th-century Europe. Even if your post-Marxist professor doesn’t think so.

    The economist
    “Hitler and Stalin thus shared a certain politics of tyranny: they brought about catastrophes, blamed the enemy of their choice, and then used the death of millions to make the case that their policies were necessary or desirable. Each of them had a trans formative Utopia, a group to be blamed when its realisation proved impossible, and then a policy of mass murder that could be proclaimed as a kind of ersatz victory.”

    Interview with the author