The Editorial Times.ca: February 2009



The Editorial Times.ca

"The Thorn of Dissent is the Flower of Democracy"©

or, if you'd rather...
"Its my blog and I'll pry if I want to, pry if I want to"
with apologies to Leslie Gore




"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” CS Lewis.


©Chris Muir

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Ok, the irony here is just too funny...

What Obama Should Do: A path out of the continuing crisis...[snicker].

by...

Conrad Black?!

The apparent failure of the Obama administration’s first attempts to restore economic confidence gives us the opportunity to look at the whole crisis afresh.

The first thing we need to do, as we reassess the crisis, is realize the extent to which the country was horribly and unimaginably failed by its entire public- and private-sector leadership. The Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, and their Congresses, discouraged savings; legislated non-commercial mortgages in the private sector (a political free ride, as both parties boasted of increasing home ownership at no cost to the taxpayers); raised the ceiling on investment-bank debt leverage on unsecured assets to 30 to one; and acquiesced while consumers piled up debt that enriched Chinese exporters of cheap goods, European and Japanese exporters of luxury goods, and the oil-exporting cartel, including Venezuela and (indirectly) Iran.


[...]


Go read the rest at National Review Online, if you can stop giggling long enough...

Stephen Harper on Canadian Banking -Kudlow CNBC

You won't likely see this on any malpractising Canadian MSM:

Kudlow:

What follows is the transcript of my interview with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on last night’s show. Mr. Harper is a trained economist and quite an impressive statesman. Our northern neighbors are lucky to have him at the helm. We covered a wide range of key topics including the ailing banking system, the risks of protectionism, oil sands, and autos. As you’ll see, Mr. Harper offered some very wise observations and insight.

[full transcript here, video at the link below.]

Harper & Kudlow on CNBC



Monday, February 23, 2009

Media Malpractice - John Ziegler takes on the Obama MSM Lovefest.


Whack two:



Game. Set. Match.