Making Sense with Nicholls

As readers of this blog may know, my favorite sport is baseball. Part of the reason for this, I think, is I enjoy the game's rich histor...

According to the Globe and Mail , the federal Conservative government is thinking about bringing back Participaction, a "fitness awaren...

With what's going on in the world today, I wonder how long it will be before they ban this song ?

Say it aint so Screech!

Once upon a time labour unions were a powerful (and often negative) force in British society. But then in the 1980s and 1990s, the British C...

Check out this Weird Al video . It's all about being white and nerdy. Not that this has anything to do with me, of course.

Here's a "Desperate Politicians" billboard the National Citizens Coalition put up last year to protest the Adscam Scandal. Wh...

Yesterday I praised the federal government for scrapping the Court Challenges Program. But not everybody was as happy as I. Some people cla...

Just sent out this news release: (September 25, 2006)The National Citizens Coalition today praised the federal government for scrapping the ...

Glad to see the federal government using the $13 billion surplus to reduce the national debt. Also glad to see its cutting back on some spen...

A friend of mine sent me this interesting commentary on American presidential hairstyles. My favorite bit is this paragraph: "Better t...

Former U.S. president Bill Clinton lost it recently on FOX news when interviewer Chris Wallace asked him some pointed questions about terror...

In a few days I will be participating in a TV debate with a couple of socialists, so I will need to prepare myself for verbal combat. Lucki...

Here's something for all you manatee lovers out there.

Historian Niall Ferguson offers some excellent insights into what was a crazy week in international politics. In fact, Ferguson makes the ca...

One movie sub-genre I really love are films featuring "small beleaguered garrisons holding off hordes of enemies." Here are my top...

Yesterday I predicted the Democratic left would not be happy with Nancy Pelosi's attack on Hugo Chavez. Well, I was right. Update: Here...

More and more it looks like Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is taking on the role of Mussolini to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...

It's interesting to see liberal Democrats taking President George Bush's side after Hugo Chavez's "Bush is the devil"...

Bob Rae doesn't think his disastrous record as Ontario premier would be an issue should he lead the Liberal Party into the next election...