Gingrich May Run in 2008

If he does run, I’ll vote for him.

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) expects to run for president in 2008 if the contest for the Republican nomination still seems wide open late next year, he said yesterday.

He certainly is one of the smartest guys I’ve listened to.

Posted in USA

Watch the market work

Hey, this guy thinks that market forces could actually bring the price of oil down – without government interference!  Give the markets time, and they do actually work.  The forces of supply and demand are powerful.

Oil prices could drop to about $40 US a barrel in the medium term as new supplies are found, and might fall even further in the long term, the chief executive of BP PLC said, according to an interview published Monday.

Chief Saudi export

Mark on the Saudis most dangerous export.

What’s nutty is that, half a decade on from Sept. 11, the Saudis are still allowed to bankroll schools and mosques and think tanks and fast-track imam chaplaincy programs in prisons and armed forces around the world. Oil isn’t the principal Saudi export, ideology is; petroleum merely bankrolls it.

Bush will rally

Hard to find too many articles like this saying good things about GWB.

One hears not an encouraging word about US President George W Bush these days, even from Republican loyalists. Yet I believe that Bush will stage the strongest political comeback of any US politician since Abraham Lincoln won re-election in 1864 in the midst of the American Civil War.

Posted in USA

Reduce, repeal and rescind

Here is an energy program you won’t read about happening anytime soon – or will you?

Prime Minister Harper needs an alternative to Kyoto. Just about everyone seems to agree that our government can’t just do nothing about greenhouse gas emissions.

Above the law

More evidence that there are two tiers of laws in Ontario: none for Indians, all for the rest of us.

Two news cameramen were assaulted by protesters today, prompting Premier Dalton McGuinty to condemn the latest violence at the site of an aboriginal occupation in Caledonia, Ont.

I smell a good album

Nothing like a breakup to inspire some spine-chilling lyrics.

But in new issues out today both People and Us Weekly are reporting the 32-year-old Ottawa songwriting superstar and the Vancouver-born actor, her boyfriend of four years and fiancee of two, have split.

Out of control tower

Check out this temporary control tower that doesn’t have to meet local building codes – brought to you by the FAA.

For the next three years, Opa-locka Airport’s control tower will be a trailer perched atop cargo containers welded together.

Suddenly the 9-11 tragedy is becoming more understandable.

Not too bright

Reading this story about the attack on the TSE tells me these kids don’t keep track of what’s going on.  Last I looked, there hasn’t been a trading floor in years.  I also doubt that any of the main computers to control the trades are anywhere near King and York, the TSX’s head office.

Also, the building is near impossible to get near to during rush hour, and its shipping area is a devil to get to (it doesn’t actually have its own, making it an even lousier target.)

Posted in War