The Disaffected Lib: Were Woodware & Bernstein Played by a Man With An Axe To...
Washington Post scribes Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have, for decades, been widely credited with taking down Richard Nixon. The popular narrative goes that they were fed their story by a shadowy...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: ALEC Climate Change Denial Model Bill Passes in Tennessee
alec-exposed-600x400_0 (2).jpg The month of March has seen unprecedented heat and temperatures. A rational thinking, scientifically-grounded individual could only posit, "Well, hmm, I bet climate...
View ArticleCuriosityCat: The Council of Canadians’ Magnificent Seven
Canada’s Woodward & Bernstein, Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor, of Postmedia News, today bring us news about The Council of Canadians’ Magnificent Seven. In the 1960 western The Magnificent Seven,...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: The Harper Government: Abuses Of A Nixonian...
That is the description that Lawrence Martin applies to the Harper government in his latest column for iPolitics as he reflects on the vital and valiant role journalism played in uncovering the...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Potted history: why the winter of 2012 feels like the summer...
Richard Nixon after his overwhelming 1972 re-election victory. Below: George McGovern, Alison Redford. Here in Alberta’s icy capital, the winter of 2012 is starting to feel like the summer of ’73. If...
View Articlekirbycairo: Guatemalan Dictators, and Brutes of our Own. . . .
Yesterday the former dictator of Guatemala, Efrain Montt, was convicted of 80 years in prison for Genocide. The sentence is, in a sense symbolic considering that Mr. Montt is now 86 years old and very...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: How will we get back to the 19th Century without Stephen...
A forlorn Richard Nixon waves goodbye to Washington for the last time from the steps of the presidential helicopter on Aug. 9, 1974. Don’t count on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to do the same thing...
View ArticleLeDaro: Stephen Harper and Senate scandal
Richard Nixon seemed to have spoken the same words when faced with the Watergate scandal.
View ArticleLeDaro: Stephen Harper on campaign trail
He has beaten Richard Nixon’s Watergate. Duffygate beats Watergate.
View ArticleLeDaro: Stephen Harper: "I am not a crook"
I hope readers will like this video.Something has gone wrong with my computer. It has crashed many times and many of my programs are not working properly. I am unable to understand that why it is...
View ArticleAgainst the Grain: Jason Kenney has a Richard Nixon-shaped hole in his campaign
Man, what the fuck is going on in Alberta?In an email to supporters sent late Sunday with the bland subject line, “A Wildrose Update,” Opposition Leader Brian Jean drops a bombshell with the revelation...
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