The life and death of Betty "the Loan Shark"

Barry Artiste Op/EdBetty the Loan Shark, was a common fixture at Casino Parking lots, where it is said would dispense cash to fellow Asians whose luck ran out, guess Betty's gamble finally resulted in Craps! ...

Clear Eyed View of the Quebec New Right

"An excellent piece From the Mind of a Netjin on the new right in Quebec and it's links to Von Mises liberal-tarianism. Of course we have seen this movie before. The Harpocrites, including the Harper himself and Ambrose, Solberg, Kenney, Anders, etc. et. al, ad nauseum,...

Rural Roots

"This headline says it all about Ed Stelmach's, the new President of the Executive Council of Alberta, choices for Cabinet. 'This cabinet does not look like Alberta' Nope it's all rural. And like the rest of Canada rural Alberta is declining in...

Distributism

"The economic philosophy of both The Catholic Worker and Chesterton was distributism and at the heart of distributism is private property. The word distributism comes from the idea that a just social order can be achieved through a much more widespread distribution of property. "

Populism and Producerism

"With the recent debate on the Wheat Board there has been a focus in Federal politics on Western Farmers. The farmers movement in Western Canada influenced politics in Canada both left and right for the past ninty years and still is. It is the politics of producerism....

Strom's Curse

"Others are now commenting on the Curse. Ed Stelmach being Alberta's 13th Premier will he inherit the Strom Curse? I have said so pundits from the right including his opponent Ted Morton have said so. And now the MSM are speculating."

Ed Stelmach=Harry Strom

"Its a day of joy in mudville, the safe guy won the PC Leadership Race...Ed Stelmach.Yeee Haw as Howard Dean once said. The joy the joy. Just counting the days till the dissolution of the PC's. They just elected their very own Harry Strom."

The Stalin Circle in Alberta

Our PC's are the Party of Calgary, the Progressive Conservatives, under the Great Leader Ralph Klein. The Party dominance is everywhere outside of Redmonton, which is the equivalent of revolutionary St. Petersburg (Leningrad).The current power struggle in the party...

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