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With all the red flags going up in the era of climate change here is some good news. The Nunavut government has taken polar bears off the endangered species list. This is another step back for those who are worried about climate change in Canada.


“We live in polar bear country. We understand the polar bears, and we do actually think our polar bear population is very, very healthy,” Shewchuk said in justifying the reversal.

There is a growing mood in the United States for elected officials to go to Washington  to fix government not to be government. This article makes the case that the time is right for anti-incumbency candidates to challenge the status quo of the liberal elitists who believe that Government is just another form of entitlement.

 ABC News Survey, only 29% of Americans said that they were inclined to support their House representative in November. That’s  even lower percentage than in October 1994 (34%), on the eve of the Republican takeover of Congress when voters swept the Democrats out of power in that chamber after 40 years in the majority. Even more striking were the findings of a recent Gallup poll, where by a margin of nearly two-to-one (60%-32%) voters said they would rather vote for a candidate for Congress with no experience whatsoever than for a candidate who has been in Congress.
This anti-incumbent, anti-Washington mood is pushing voters to support Republicans and widening the enthusiasm gap between the two parties. The disproportionately high turnout of Republican primary voters in New Jersey, California and Iowa—three states with significantly more registered Democrats than Republicans—demonstrates that at the very least Republican voters are more energized and are mobilizing to a greater degree than their Democratic counterparts

For a man trying to be more popular not less this is the wrong move. Ignatieff will lose votes and MPs 

ON, ONTARIO FEDERATION OF ANGLERS AND HUNTERS–(Marketwire – June 2, 2010) – Honourable Michael Ignatieff, M.P.
Leader of the Official Opposition
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Dear Mr. Ignatieff:


The fact that the Liberal party had to whip the vote when Bill C-68 was passed to ensure that party members stayed in line, and will again whip the vote on C-391, a private member’s bill no less, is a clear indication that despite all of the rhetoric, that unanimity does not exist within the Liberal caucus. Instead of recognizing the rights of individual members to vote their conscience, and more importantly, their right to vote in the best interests of their constituents, they are forced to toe the party line and continue to support a badly flawed, horrifically expensive and highly divisive long gun registry that has not saved lives, and has not enhanced the public safety. This win at all costs/scorched earth policy ignores all of the obvious signs that the program has been a dismal failure, and demonstrates conclusively that common sense and fiscal responsibility have been sacrificed at the altar of philosophical adherence.

Last night as Michael Ignatieff was wrapping himself in the political flag of the Liberal party’s past. Banging the drum for all the past achievements of the Liberal party,  an arrogant odour could have been distinctly detected when Ignatieff proclaimed  that his 30 years away from Canada made him supremely qualified to understand Canada and Canadians. This open evidence of arrogance can be one of the reasons why Canadians are not warming to the Liberal leader. Average Canadians like a streak of humility running through most of their public officials in less your name is Trudeau. This is not the first time that Ignatieff has displayed an arrogant attitude towards Canada and Canadians. Here are some of his greatest hits.this is what he really thinks about Canada.

In the case of the Canadian flag, I cannot forget that it is a passing imitation of a beer label.” (The Observer, 1990)


“The only thing I missed about Canada [while I was gone for 34 years] was Algonquin Park.” (Macleans, 2006)


“It’s disgusting in my own country, but Canadians would rather bitch about their rich neighbour to the south than pay the note.” (Dublin, Ireland, 2005)




“If I am not elected, I imagine I will ask Harvard to let me back.” (Harvard Crimson, Nov 30 2005)


Look at the bright side if he fails in politics there’s always home sweet Harvard to go back to.

Can Liberals really think differently than Conservatives.? When this was first put to me  by one of my former professors I thought it was an ideological joke. However;  there might be credence to the argument that there is a difference in the way Liberals and Conservatives perceive the world. This difference is what makes the decisions that they choose to pursue totally different.

Liberals Are from Mars, Conservatives Are from Earth
By Robin of Berkeley

One of the things I like so much about writing for American Thinker is the comments page. Readers offer so much: tips for books to read, quotes to ponder, spiritual inspiration. And then there are times when the comments absolutely floor me.


I was shocked that readers were shocked about my previously viewing Marxism as sublime. I was astonished that readers were astonished about my young client’s freak-out about Styrofoam.


I realized that liberals really do live on another planet. Sometimes I feel like I’m having a Close Encounter of the Political Kind.