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What the article left out is the "right-wing" Fraser Institute. The Fraser Institute has long lobbied for tax cuts and, of course, a lot of the higher taxes we pay in Canada do go to socialized medicare. They have often lobbied for a two-tier, pay-if-you-want-to system (with the requisite tax cuts)....

Don't be misled by these so-called polls. Most are conducted in uncontrolled environments, with each polling group having their own agenda. Both candidates are actually DEAD EVEN in Zogby's poll as of 10/17 -- his being a weighted, 3-day running poll. But that's what so scary for non-Americans. Eit...

I can't find the atricle right now (Toronto Star from this past Sunday) that showed polls taken in 10 countries found that people in those countries overwehlmingly still liked Americans and also overwhelmingly hated the Bush Administration (the one exception was Israel, which is understandable given...

How awful. Awful questions, awful answers. Ryan I'll provide my Canadian view on this (though probably somewhat biased given that the latest polls indicate that about 80% of Canadians want Kerry to win). (I only watched about the first 50 minutes as I'm only really interested in US Foreign Policy) ...

Commenting from Canada: if Americans re-elect that stammering, twanging dufus (who really loooked a lot like Alfred E Neumann tonight), then God help you all. Yet on some of the "post-game analysis" there were still people saying that "President Bush looked like the person to protect us". Y'all just...

Well, the Bush team keeps warning us that the terrorists will strike again in an attempt to "influence the election," so they must think the threat of terror has an influence. Ryan We've heard this mantra quite a bit since the Madrid train bombings likely influenced the Spanish elections a few days...

This is all part of the "you either with us or with the terrorists" hysteria that the Bush Administration has put out there since 9-11. Actually, a letter to the editor of the Toronto Star from an American in Michigan, showed the opposite of this story. Apparently, some women (whose fiance is fighti...

BTW, Cliff, my wife and I had a short vacation in Toronto earlier in the year and loved it. Nice city you've got there. Ryan Ryan, Glad you enjoyed it here. It's not perfect but it suffices. It's funny because over on SH.tv I've often stated that I've travelled quite a bit throughout the world and ...

Yes, the Taliban is "rigid" in their beliefs. But there are also rigid Jews, Catholics, Democrats, and Liberals. It's not something that's confined to the "right wing" or to Muslims. Actually, you're saying precisely the ame thing as me (perhaps you've articulated it better). I use Muslims and the ...

Personally, I try to avoid equating "fundamentalist" and "nutjob" if I can help it. I find "extremist" works well for the nutjobs. The distinction? Someone who has severe, literal religious beliefs is a fundamentalist. Some who wants to force everyone else to share his or her severe, literal religi...

Yes...those beliefs are definitely a part of fundamentalism. You see, this is why I think they have now come up with "Islamist" (surely a word created by American news people in the past year because I had never heard it before). Previously, the same "Islamists" were known as "fundamentalist Muslim...

Apparently W's foreign policy is based on the "Left Behind" series. And I think you shouldn't separate W from the "Bible thumpers." Yes, now I remember. They had a story on 60 Minutes about the role of fundamentalist Christians in US Foreign Policy vis-a-vis Israel. Also, there are a lot of referen...

IMO all this hysteria over the proper Israeli border is a smokescreen. What is truly desired (by probably a majority of the Arab world) is the complete and total wipeout of Israel...but a return to the pre '67 border would be certainly accepted (and thought of as a reasonable "first step"). If the ...

The Middle East situation is infinitely worse now than it was four years ago. First of all, Bush has given Sharon carte blanche on doing what he wants. He has allowed Sharon to piggyback onto the so-called "War On Terror", which is probably what Putin will now do with the Chechens (hell, the LAPD wi...

I've been watching this whole same-sex marriage debate in the US with great interest. We've had legal same-sex marriage here in Ontario (one of three provinces in Canada that allow it) for about 15 months now. People haven't even raised an eyebrow for about 14 1/2 of those 15 months. I'm a heterosex...