Tory Redux - Part 120

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.

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

Hudak Pledges Flat Rates For Families

It’s all about affordability and fairness for families.

Source Toronto Star

“Not every family is going to meet Dalton McGuinty’s definition of an ideal family,” Hudak told reporters after the speech.

“So he’s got to give an option to the senior citizen who Dalton McGuinty is lecturing to get up at two in the morning to do her wash, or the shift worker who’s impacted. So offer choice to consumers.”

“Those who can adapt their behaviour should be given a time of use structure that will reward conservation, but for the families whop cannot they should be given the choice at the very least of a flat rate.”

In his speech, Hudak slammed the Liberals for using energy policy to promote high cost renewable energy projects.

“Energy policy is about economics,” he said. “Stop treating it like a social program.”

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what do you think about the proposal and do you think nuclear and other strategies could work?

Rumble In The Jungle With The Obama Zombies

This is the political equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded room. Full disclosure, this individual was probably working for a conservative group pushing for reform within University.

Conservatives Kicked Off Campus

Here’s a stunning video of conservative viewpoints being kicked off a university campus. I thought the campus was a marketplace of ideas.

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