Making Sense with Nicholls

Monday, March 31, 2008

Gospel According to Marx

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The latest issue of Maclean's magazine highlights one of my "Maclean's 50" commentaries. It's one where I take the Ro...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Killing the Military

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Trendy leftists likes to portray themselves as "anti-war". But more often than not, what they really are is anti-military. They ju...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008

My house will be lit up bright

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As this recent satellite image proves, every hour is "Earth Hour" in North Korea. Anyway, I plan to have every incandescent light...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Widmark RIP

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American actor Richard Widmark passed away a couple of days ago at age 93. He said something once I wish today's celebrities would take ...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Ontario's Triple D Budget

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Yesterday's Ontario budget deserves a "Triple D Rating" as in "Dwight Duncan Disaster."
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Looking over Harper's Shoulder

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The Hill Times , Canada's politics and government newsweekly, has written nice little summary of my manifesto: The Trudeau Empire Has Fa...
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Open the Window Aunt Minnie, here comes the MLB

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The Major League Baseball season (finally) begins today. And I have figured out a fool proof way the Toronto Blue Jays can make the play-off...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

Klingon War Song

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Turns out that besides being a fierce warrior race, the Klingons are also pretty good singers. Yeah, I know. I am spending way too much time...
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Friday, March 21, 2008

Bilingualism: Harper's New God

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A few months ago, after learning Bernard Lord was leading a task force to "review the state of bilingualism in Canada", I wrote a ...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Badassed Presidents

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Cracked magazine has come up with a list of the five most "badassed" American presidents of all time. Number one on the list is T...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Green Party Breakthrough?

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A consensus seems to be emerging among pundits that the big winner in Monday's by-elections was the federal Green Party. And superficial...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Little Kremlin on the Prairie

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My friend Rolf Penner, a libertarian-minded Manitoba farmer, has gone on Youtube to make the case against the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly.
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Backwards Bob is Back

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Well Bob Rae is officially a Liberal Member of Parliament. Good for him. Of course, his real goal isn't simply to be a mere MP. The form...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Conservatism in a Hurry

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The Toronto Star's Susan Delacourt has written a mini-review of my political opus -- The Trudeau Empire has fallen and it can't ge...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Media Alert

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I will be discussing my manifesto on The World Tonight , ( CHQR radio Calgary) at 9:05 EST.

The Nicholls Manifesto

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I have written a short political tract called The Trudeau Empire Has Fallen and it Can't Get up: Why now is the time for the Canadian co...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

What's Wrong with RESPs?

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I am not certain why the Harper Tories are so dead set against Liberal MP Dan McTeague's bill on Registered Education Savings Plans. ( ...
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Is it Time to Say Goodbye to Quebec?

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Reed Scowen , an expert in Quebec-Canada relations, has come to a controversial conclusion: Canada would be better off if Quebec separated. ...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Snow Bored

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Here's a photo of me after a tragic snow accident. I was shovelling my back porch when suddenly there was an avalanche! Mind you, this p...
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Saturday, March 08, 2008

Reasons to Subscribe to Reason

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After months of procrastinating I finally got around to subscribing to Reason magazine, the journal of "free minds and free markets....
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Gerry Nicholls
Gerry Nicholls is a communications consultant and writer who has been called a “political warrior” a “brilliant strategist” and one of the “canniest political observers in Canada.” He has worked as a consultant in both the United States and Canada and was formerly a senior officer in the National Citizens Coalition. A regular columnist with the Ottawa Hill Times, his work has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post and in the Sun Media chain; and he has appeared on countless TV and radio public affairs programs. He is the author of the book, Loyal to the Core, Harper, Me and the NCC.
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