Noam Chomsky doesn't buy that Osama bin Laden orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. So, he naturally doesn't like that the United States killed bin Laden without attempting to arrest him--Chomsky labels bin Laden a "victim." Read my article @ FrontPageMag on how Chomsky's take on the U.S. raid that killed the head of al Qaeda isn't the first time the MIT linguist got his facts wildly wrong.

I once spent some time browsing through the footnotes of a Chomsky tome (I wish I could remember which one, but it's something anyone could look up) and found it amusing that the majority of his "notes" were references to his past works. So, when reading his work and checking to see where he got his data, his source was himself.

"I'm right because I said so earlier" is not an argument.

Btw NR, congratulations are in order now that you Canadians have finally come to your senses and gone Conservative.

If there is any good that will ever come out of what our country is going through with radical liberalism, it's that other countries are learning what not to do.

Thanks asdf!

It was an odd election. Called for no particular reason (except that the Liberal party and their leader Michael Ignatieff felt that they could pick up some seats and become the natural ruling party of Canada that they've always claimed to be) while the NDP thought they could steal some seats from the Liberals (which they very handily did) and the PQ thought that disaffection with the Conservatives in Quebec might bolster their separatist arguments.

Unfortunately, the Liberals over played their hand with a leader who was more interested in being Prime Minister than actually having a set of values (this is common in our Liberal Party--promise everything to everyone to get the votes)and got massacred--something I did not expect.

Truthfully, I thought it would be another minority government (there seemed little doubt of that even with the Liberals high hopes) but was pleasantly surprised. As were the NDP.

The nice thing about this is that we now have a centre-right party in charge with a socialistic left leaning party in official opposition. One will keep the other honest, and one will keep the other realistic. It was also nice to see the separatist movement decimated, and the Liberals get their just rewards.

Ironically, the situation is very similar to 1993, when the Progressive Conservative Party (the Conservatives predecessors)was also decimated.

Also ironic is the number of people walking around after the election claiming we're now in a "dictatorship." These same people said nothing when the Liberals had a majority oh so many years and had no complaint about our parliamentary system, as long as they were in the ascendancy.

I think one of the biggest complaints about our current prime minister is that he's "boring", but be that as it may, we weathered the recession in much better shape than most other countries due to their fiscal responsibility.

So "yay"!

Great information NR. We should be paying more attention to Canada I think.

It doesn't surprise me that the liberals thought they would be a lock as they consistently and condescendingly dismiss the fact that the great uninformed and unwashed masses do pay attention at some point and are smart enough to make changes.

Here is a good one for your perusal.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/05/harvard_grapples_with_rejectio.html

What Yoko Ono was to The Beatles, Noam Chomsky is to American Society.

ASDF:

Read the article you linked to...very interesting. Here's my take. While no one questions Ignatieff's intellectual credentials, and I've heard he's a pretty decent writer, that does not translate into a natural ability to lead or even charm the masses. He came off in public as an out of touch elitist and the Conservatives were very smart to use that to their advantage in their advertising. However, one man alone cannot destroy a party (I think? I guess you'll find out in 2012) and the other candidates deserve just as much credit for their defeat.

Stephen Harper is as bland as the come and still Iggy was not only not able to usurp him...his party was decimated. The real winner in the charm department was Jack Layton (I really like him although I think his party is too enthralled with "wishful thinking") and in their case, it showed at the polls.

Allistar...Chomsky is a gadfly so impressed with his own brilliance, there's no room for reality.

:)

One thing I do like about our elections is that they only last six weeks. We don't spend half our time (or in your case, the president's term) campaigning and raising huge amounts of money for said campaigns that could be used to better effect elsewhere.

Not criticizing your system, mind you, just the waste involved.

However, we do have our own thought police:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_complaints_against_Maclean's_magazine

I've read Mark Steyn's book, and it's mostly about demographics. It's blunt, but not "hate speech."

I live in Massachusetts in the Boston area so we have no shortage of Ivy League (particularly Harvard due to proximity) elitist types who think that they are much better qualified to steer the lesser masses.

The problem I find is that they, like Chomsky, are so impressed with their own brilliance that they typically can not find common sense solutions in the forest for the trees.

It sounds to me that Canada is on the right track. And I think that a country swimming in natural resources as you are, with the right government structured to manage and market those resources wisely, can not help but be a huge player going forward in the 21st century.

It's unfortunate that the United States is not learning the same lessons as we are currently constituted under a flawed and weak political leadership.

Btw - I am a HUGE Steyn fan. Have read his books ('American Alone' should be required reading for all Westerners) and have seen him speak a number of times. His perspective as a Brit/Canadian/Amercian with a real world view is second to none.