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Spitzer was marked for takedown 

Governor's enemies most likely responsible for tapping his phone, setting him up

Undoubtedly the FBI is sitting on information concerning the sexual indescretions of many other politicians—that Mr.‭ ‬Spitzer's happened to come out on Monday,‭ ‬March‭ ‬10,‭ ‬2008‭ ‬was unquestionably the product of specific human will.

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David Motari speaks

"Puppy killer"says he was just being "creative" in tossing dog to its death

"Usually what happens is we shoot them. I was being 'creative' that day and decided to throw the dog instead."

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Hands off Motari

"Puppy killer" Marine no more evil than most of us

Humans are perfectly capable--indeed, better off--following a diet of fruits, vegetables, and legumes, but with each trip to the restaurant or supermarket our arbitrary taste for animal flesh leads us to finance the painful slaughter of innocent mammals.

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Ron Paul's immigration U-turn

Why does the "libertarian" want the federal government to manage the labor market?

As a candidate for the Libertarian Party in the 1988 presidential election. In the July/August, 1987 issue of the Libertarian Party News, Ron Paul wrote, “As in our country's first 150 years, there shouldn't be any immigration policy at all. We should welcome everyone who wants to come here and work.”

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Transit adds urban value

The "L" makes the difference between Chicago and Detroit

Recently in the Chicago Tribune, writer Dennis Byrne decried the large state subsidies thrown at CTA, Metra, and Pace, concluding that, "The next time you're furious about your late bus or train, maybe things would be better if you paid more of your fair share." 

Unfortunately, his argument against transit subsidy was less common sense and more typical ignorance about how cities work.

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Bulb ban will mean black market for incandescents

Governments worldwide are seemingly annoyed that consumers still favour Thomas Edison's 128 year-old invention—the incandescent ligh bulb. They're cheap, but "inefficient"—ostensibly to a degree that would have their sale criminalized. Will this create a black market for incandescents? A War on Edison?

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Remembering Ryan Bradford

Back in 1991, Ryan was one of the first persons with whom I had ever ridden a skateboard. Outside Samuel Burland elementary in south St. Vital, we used to practice after school, and I recall the board Ryan rode at the beginning of that spring, a Powell Ray Barbee with a ghostly character shuffling cards, a red cap with the letters "RB" atop its head. "RB—Ray Barbee and I have the same initials, so that worked out good," he said, and the abbreviated moniker stuck with him throughout the next sixteen years of his life.

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Friedman confirmed free markets work the best

During the 20th century, there was much debate among economists about what role the government should have in shaping economic policy. While interventionists, notably John Maynard Keynes, believed government programs necessary to tackle the problems of unemployment and inflation, Milton Friedman -- who died this week at age 94 -- believed the best thing a government could do to help an economy is get out of the way.

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Pedestrian losing battle with the auto

WINNIPEG is divided, yes, but forget about north and south. Ours is really two, parallel cities: One of motorways, one of sidewalks. Guess who's winning.

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The Beginning of the end of hard cash

RESPONDING to a recent rash of robberies, Salisbury House, that most Winnipeg of culinary institutions, has declared it no longer wants your paper money after 10 p.m. Would-be robbers are thus advised to arrive before then.

Seriously, what happens when Sal's gets robbed at 9:30? Will they scale back the cash ban another hour? What if there's a hold-up during lunch hour? Will they move to refuse cash altogether?

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You get what you pay for: rent controls impede growth downtown

A few months ago I answered a crisis call from my boyhood friend Shawn.


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Nothing socialist about public transit

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Gardening: it beats bar hopping

THIS week I looked out my back door to the spectacle of dozens of ping pong ball-sized radishes emerging from a plot of soil which only weeks earlier had been covered with grass.

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Online news will never beat the paper

IN the mid 1990s, when World Wide Web exploded into household terminology about as quickly as television had four decades earlier, sundry scholars and commentators emerged with a chorus cry of "Print is Dead."

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