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The love affair between conservatives and Mark Steyn

by @dmooney9 on May 14, 2009 · 144 comments

in Human Rights, Twitter

Mark Steyn is the Canadian born, British educated author who in 2006 published a book that I suggested a You Tube phenomenon was taken from. Steyn now lives in the USA because his hate filled writing is no longer welcome in Canada. Steyn has found an audience here and that should be troubling.
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Health Care in Canada Better Than in the US

by @tregan on May 14, 2009 · 9 comments

in Healthcare

Yes, I know, that headline is going to get a ton of “baloney” responses. Not to mention all the “then go back to Canada” replies from people not interested in really looking at the issue. I’ve heard it all before a million times.
I want to be clear about the purposes of this posting. I’m not [...]

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Why the conservative movement is getting old … literally

by @tregan on April 15, 2009 · 0 comments

in #tcot, GOP, Politics, The President

Several years ago, when I worked for the Christian Science Monitor, we had a meeting with the paper’s main publishing team about the future of the publication. In a rather solemn tone, they told us was that the average age of a print subscriber was 65. Meanwhile, the average age of readers visiting the website [...]

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The price of “socialism”

by @dmooney9 on April 10, 2009 · 2 comments

in Economy, GOP, Gay Rights, Military

I ask people on twitter who use the term “socialism” like it was a sexually communicated disease, what they understand the meaning to be. Many don’t reply or else come back with a snarky comment.  Even Sarah Palin did not have a good definition of socialism other than something the US doesn’t want.
So I’m going [...]

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Canada- Socialism eh? Look north for fiscal responsibility

by @dmooney9 on April 6, 2009 · 0 comments

in Economy, Healthcare, Taxes

One of the more frustrating parts of being American and from Canada is the constant feeling of being surrounded by people that don’t want to know about how other countries do things. Canada has many excellent traits but Americans are skeptical that any system except the American system can do anything right. Even conservatives in [...]

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