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Archive for June 12th, 2007

Not much time, but I did want to draw your attention to the editorial in today’s Post - More gun control isn’t the answer.

To me, this is a classic. It addresses the mindless simplicity of McGuinty and Miller yelling for a ban on handguns every time there is a murder in Toronto, and also manages to take a swipe at Layton as well.

There are some great lines here:

…But why is it the first instinct of most liberal-left politicians to go after the property of law-abiding citizens when the problem is so obviously the actions of criminals? Confiscating the former will have no impact on the latter..

…Rather than holding the United States up as a bogeyman, Mr. McGuinty and his ministers might want to look at what American authorities are doing well and apply it to the growing crime and violence problem in their own backyard…

…NDP leader Jack Layton, too, railed “We don’t want to be hearing more about young people losing their lives to guns in our cities. So let’s call on governments to pass the laws to stop the guns from coming across the borders.”

But, Mr. Layton, gun smuggling is already illegal. Guns are crossing our borders because criminals are prepared to pay a premium for the tools of their trade, not because of some loophole in the criminal code….

…If Messrs. McGuinty and Layton really want to reduce handgun deaths in Canada, the Premier will pressure his Liberal cousins in Parliament to support the Tories’ crime bills, which raise sentences for violent offences. And Mr. Layton will get back to Ottawa and encourage his caucus to do the same.

Indeed. But that would require common sense.

The Atlantic ‘Discord’ is proving to be a wedge issue even in the Cabinet!

CTV has an exclusive report stating that Peter MacKay was asked to sign the infamous letter stating no side-deals, but that he refused and so Jim Flaherty did so instead.

The Liberals must be smelling blood now:

Liberal senators, who hold a majority, say they might even take up MacDonald’s call to defeat the budget.

“If Mr. Harper wants this budget, Mr. Harper is going to have to change this budget,” said Liberal Sen. Terry Mercer of Nova Scotia.

Having the Senate vote down the budget would be a vote of non-confidence in the government and an election could result.

“It would be totally irresponsible and it would be unprecedented for the unelected Senate to defeat a budget bill,” said Conservative Sen. Marjory LeBreton, the party’s house leader.

So, if the unelected, lottery-for-life Liberal and Atlantic Senators vote down this budget, we could be facing a summer election. Mike Duffy was discussing that option last night, and he sure didn’t look enthused. I can’t see Harper backing down in this game of chicken though.

Should be interesting to see how it all plays out.

It seems that some from the left are quite indignant that I removed the post, “Another Inconvenient Truth”, which is still available as a cached version for those who are interested (remember that whatever you write on the internet is there forever).

The reason I did this was simply because I was tired of deleting comments from trolls. Holsinger’s work has been discredited by many on the left, and Lifesite is regularly discredited as a reliable resource by many ‘progressive’ bloggers.

I stand by the post in terms of the view that sexual freedom may have consequences, and society largely has to bear the financial burden of those choices (re: abortion, disease, etc.). In fact, in most cases it is demanded.

Many from the left attempt to vilify any reference to this possibility and denounce it as bigotry of some kind.

I encourage debate and respectful criticism. I expect that some progressive bloggers, to whom I won’t link, think that using personal insults is a very clever way of winning an argument.

There are others for whom I previously had some kind of respect, but now he seems to be following the path of insults too. Too bad. I expected more from him. (Warning - visit Red’s site at your own risk).

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from blogging, it’s that when you stoop to the level of name-calling, you lose your credibility.