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by Dave Reesor
on June 15, 2017 in Alberta Politics, Big Government, Bullies, Canadian Politics, Gay Rights, Politics, Public Education, Socialism, The left, Uncategorized, US Politics
Meritha and I recently attended a Conference on the Family in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The three featured speakers were Theresa Ng, a mom and teacher who blogs at Informed Albertans; Donna Trimble, executive director of Parents for Choice in Education and John Carpay of Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms , JCCF. These are three excellent […]
by Dave Reesor
on June 1, 2017 in Alberta Politics, Big Government, Canadian Politics, Climate, Environmentalism, Politics, Science, The left, Uncategorized, US Politics
For the past 20 years global temperatures have not risen significantly. Neither have they fallen much; they have “plateaued.” But based on the increase in CO2 levels, computer models said that temperatures should have kept rising. Climate change alarmists insist that they have kept rising, or at least stayed high enough to keep setting some […]
by Dave Reesor
on April 24, 2017 in Alberta Politics, Big Government, Bureaucracy, Canadian Politics, Gay Rights, Politics, Public Education, Religion, Self reliance, Social Issues, Socialism, The left, Uncategorized, US Politics
Over the past few weeks I’ve published one blog entitled:Who is Subsidizing Whom?, and another entitled Stop Subsidizing Public Schools! Unsurprisingly, I got some feedback, both positive and negative. One source of negative feedback was Randall. Full disclosure; Randall is my cousin and our worldviews are different, so we spar from the perspectives of Socialism […]
by Dave Reesor
on April 21, 2017 in Alberta Politics, Big Government, Politics, Public Education, Socialism, The left, Uncategorized
In an interview with CBC News, Duncan Kenney, the executive director of Progress Alberta made the following statements: “We subsidize our private schools more than every other province in the country.” He also said: “We have 15 elite private schools in Calgary collectively soaking up more than $30 million annually in public subsidies.” Unfortunately, both […]
by Dave Reesor
on April 3, 2017 in Alberta Politics, Big Government, Bullies, Canadian Politics, Gay Rights, Politics, Public Education, Science, Social Issues, The left, Uncategorized, US Politics
“The power of language to color one’s view of reality is profound. It is for this reason that linguistic engineering always precedes social engineering — even in medicine.” Professor of social work, Dr. William Brennan In the late 1980s and early 90s I made five, quite extensive, business trips to Africa. I always included some extracurricular […]
by Dave Reesor
on March 22, 2017 in Alberta Politics, Big Government, Bullies, Politics, Public Education, Socialism, The left, Uncategorized
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human rights, Article 26, Subsection 1 says: “Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages.” Subsection 3 says: “Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.” That means that […]
by Dave Reesor
on January 19, 2017 in Big Government, Bureaucracy, Canadian Politics, Conservatarians, Politics, Self reliance, The left, Uncategorized, US Politics
Last week I blogged about the differences, as I see them, between left and right. The next day I received my copy of Imprimis, a monthly publication of Hillsdale College. It features an article by the college President, Dr. Larry P Arnn, entitled: A More American Conservatism. This week I was going to publish some […]
by Dave Reesor
on January 12, 2017 in Big Government, Self reliance, Social Issues, The left, Uncategorized
When discussing politics we often frame the conversation in terms of left and right, progressive and conservative, socialist and capitalist. What do we mean by those terms? It’s important, because unless we more or less agree on the definition of something, there’s no way we can have a meaningful conversation. A friend told me that […]
by Dave Reesor
on December 1, 2016 in Bureaucracy, Climate, Environmentalism, Science, Socialism, The left
IWUZ reading the Economist Magazine and was startled to see an article admitting that increases in atmospheric CO2 levels are causing a massive increase in plant growth around the world. Since 1982, an area double the size of the United States has begun to turn green. Why? Well, it’s partly because some colder areas have […]
by Dave Reesor
on February 11, 2016 in Alberta Politics, Big Government, Bullies, Bureaucracy, Canadian Politics, Conservatarians, Politics, Self reliance, Uncategorized
A sub headline in today’s National Post says: “Montréal cabbies declare open season on the ride-sharing service.” Of course they’re talking about UBER, the app driven ridesharing service which is proving more than a little disruptive to the taxi industry. How it works is that you download the UBER app, and then just use your […]
