http://keyes.ca/journal Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:25:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sustainable Development, which sprung fully-armed from the fretful socialist head of the UN’s Brundtland Commission, is indeed a religion, and it has a devil: capitalism. It thus seems suicidal for any company to accommodate it, let alone embrace it. It has no workable definition except for the feel good notion ... http://keyes.ca/journal/2009/11/11/quote-of-the-day-peter-foster-2/ Government's magic touch: On the heels of Ford’s better-than-expected third quarter profits and its promise of solid profitability by 2011, 68% of Americans adults hold a favorable opinion of the one company that passed on a government bailout. Ford continues to far outdistance public perceptions of General Motors and Chrysler. The latest ... http://keyes.ca/journal/2009/11/05/quote-of-the-day-rasmussen-reports/ We need government at root to protect us from other governments (and terrorists), and to administer impartial laws. Adam Smith’s other requisite category of minimal government activity was the provision of infrastructure. Governments have fallen down in all three. The Robert Dziekanski affair — and the efforts by our guardians ... http://keyes.ca/journal/2009/10/21/quote-of-the-day-peter-foster/ Things come down to choices: lower costs versus death panels; torture versus intelligence; equity versus growth. And politicians, ever eager to garner votes, never want to say this. They will always try to have it both ways. Even when politicians choose one road over the other, they take pains to ... http://keyes.ca/journal/2009/10/15/quote-of-the-day-richard-fernandez/ Hot on the heels of this past weekend's Saturday Night Live skit, poking fun at the fact Obama has pretty much achieved nothing since he came to office, today we learn that Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: WASHINGTON/OSLO -- Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday ... http://keyes.ca/journal/2009/10/09/nobel-stocks-plummet/ What is the matter with Michael Ignatieff that this is so? What's missing from the portrait? Why, with so fresh and unspotted a leader, do the Liberals lack energy, borrow what little drama they possess from the tired, sham outrages of Question Period? It's difficult to pinpoint. It's not because ... http://keyes.ca/journal/2009/09/28/quote-of-the-day-rex-murphy/ It would be a tragic mistake to fundamentally impair economic freedom in favor of state or supra-state regulation just now. The long-term experience tells us that it is thanks to the free markets and free entrepreneurship that we can enjoy the current material welfare and economic progress. Business cycles, accompanied ... http://keyes.ca/journal/2009/09/24/quote-of-the-day-vaclav-klaus/ President Ahmadinejad has said things, particularly about the state of Israel, the Jewish people, and the holocaust, that are absolutely repugnant. It is unfitting that somebody like that would be giving those kind of remarks before the United Nations General Assembly. Canada does not want to be equivocal at all ... http://keyes.ca/journal/2009/09/23/quote-of-the-day-stephen-harper/ It is becoming increasingly clear that some in the Democratic Party need a serious history lesson. Slavery was racist, Jim Crow laws were racist, segregation was racist – opposing a radical political agenda is not. Americans of all races and political mindsets applauded the election of America’s first African American ... http://keyes.ca/journal/2009/09/19/quote-of-the-day-michael-steele/ Ed Morrissy responds to former US President Jimmy Carter's claim that Obama opposition is largely racially motivated: If Jimmy Carter believes that the “overwhelming” portion of criticism towards Barack Obama is due to racism, does he also believe that the overwhelming portion of criticism towards Israel is anti-Semitic? Wouldn’t that ... http://keyes.ca/journal/2009/09/17/quote-of-the-day-ed-morrissey/