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Archive for April 22nd, 2009

Chinese junior cops trained in thuggery

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

The Chinese internet has sparked a huge controversy with the online publication of a book with a very boring title: The Practice of City Administrator Law Enforcement. It’s a textbook intended to provide training and practical advice to chengguan, a type of local law enforcement personnel.
The principal task of chengguan members seems innocuous enough: [...]

Another flaky government scheme to increase births

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Ivan Court, mayor of Saint John, New Brunswick, has a brainstorm.
The mayor of Saint John is urging the provincial government to offer free tuition as a way to spur on a baby boom after the latest demographic portrait of the southern city shows it is not growing very quickly.
[…]
“When I taught high school three years [...]

Bill C-268 passes overwhelmingly

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Bill C-268, Joy Smith’s private members’ bill that would impose a minimum sentence of five years on those convicted of trafficking persons under the age of 18, passed second reading in the House of Commons this afternoon. The vote was 232 in favour and 47 against. Only the Bloc Québécois opposed the bill.
The [...]

Jackie Greene: “Don’t Let the Devil Take Your Mind”

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Jackie Greene’s first CD was released in 2002, but I didn’t hear of him until American Myth (2006). This cautionary tale comes from his latest, Giving Up the Ghost (2008).
Recorded live at Harmony Festival, 2008.

Evolution of neo-Marxist fascism

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Dr Sanity outlines the evolution of leftist strategy.
Read the whole thing.

Why is this man smiling?

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

This has got to be the strangest video by a prominent politician that I’ve ever seen. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown grins inanely, jerks back and forth, and even flaps his arms a bit while delivering a message to bolster public confidence in Parliament by tightening up MP’s expense allowances.
One wonders if this tomfoolery [...]