Firewall Manifesto

It is hard to believe that much non-partisan, independent academic scholarship takes place in the atmosphere encouraged at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy.

All three Alberta PC leadership candidates displayed a fierce Alberta independantiste spirit Saturday, as they contemplated with horror the changes to Canada's TFW Program.

Every day the list of promising leadership prospects no longer interested in becoming the last Progressive Conservative premier in Alberta history gets longer.

What are we Albertans going to do with this embarrassment of riches? Who knows?

It is not known when adherents of the Canadian neocon faith will elect their new spiritual leader -- although it's possible Preston Manning is available for the job.

Why would anyone be interested in three-time loser Ted Morton's opinions? We've already seen this movie. It wasn't very good.

It's apparent Pastor Allan Hunsperger, the Wildrose Lake of Fire guy, is going to be made to wear the party's election loss last spring for all eternity.

The way Finance Minister Doug Horner explained it yesterday, the government managed to bring in $3.6 billion more revenue than it expected, mostly from natural resources.

Will Prime Minister Stephen Harper sup with the separatists? It is said here he is bound to. And don't count on him using a long spoon!

Unlike the work of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, the right-wing fairy tale spun by Ken Boessenkool and Ben Eisen is designed to obfuscate, not to illuminate.