Making Sense with Nicholls

Monday, August 31, 2009

A licence to cut

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I recently attended a "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" conference in Eastern Ontario and in the parking lot I saw a car with this gre...
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Sunday, August 30, 2009

God's verdict

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According to a media report Prime Minister Stephen Harper is more concerned with "God's verdict" than he is with what historia...
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Putting Ted Kennedy into perspective

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Professor Don Boudreaux of George Mason University and one of the people behind Cafe Hayek , recently sent the following letter to the New Y...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Taking taxpayers for a ride

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While getting on the bus the other day I was handed a pamphlet detailing "New Transit Service Changes." Always intrigued by the wo...
Friday, August 28, 2009

A modest proposal for Senate reform

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All this news about Prime Minister Harper's Senate appointments has once again triggered talk as to how we can reform the Upper House. A...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Good Tory news at last

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If this is true , it's the first good news I have heard about the Conservative Party in a long time. John Williamson is a great guy, a g...
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Angling for a job

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Despite what I have written or said in the past, I firmly believe Stephen Harper is the greatest, most magnificent , most brilliant Prime Mi...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Politics of summer

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A couple of days ago I posted about why we shouldn't take August polls too seriously. Well this Globe and Mail cartoon sums it up perfec...

Conservatism and spending

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My column in the Sun Media yesterday, in which I proposed a conservative-sounding speech for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, generated an in...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Media Alert

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I am scheduled to be a guest on the The Afternoon News with Tom Young (News 95.7 Halifax) at 1:00 PM EST to talk about my column in today...

Speaking for Harper

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Back when Stephen Harper was president of the National Citizens Coalition, I used to help him write his speeches. So maybe that's why in...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Another August poll

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OK here's another poll , this time from Harris- Decima , which has the Liberals and the Tories in a dead heat. Earlier today, an Ipsos -...
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About that poll ....

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An Ipsos Reid poll shows the Conservative government has jumped into an 11 point lead over the Liberals. This almost puts the Tories into t...
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Media Alert

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I am scheduled to be on CBC radio's The Current, this morning somewhere before 8:00 AM to talk about the government's foreign policy...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Freedom to get a tan

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Check out my latest column which appears in today's Sun media. It's about freedom, politics and summer . . . oh yeah, I also mentio...
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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Murphy nails it

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Rex Murphy had a good piece in the Globe and Mail yesterday on how the Liberals and Conservatives are mirror images of each other. About P...
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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Keeping NDP delegates in line

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Was watching the NDP convention last night (perhaps evidence of hidden masochistic tendencies?) and I saw something rather interesting. At ...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Red-Tory Tosh

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I have a letter to the editor in today's Globe and Mail responding to a column by Lawrence Martin who was praising Prime Minister Harper...
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

With friends like these ...

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As someone who has been critical of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s move to the left, I must concede his unconservative policies have achie...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Healthcare and politics

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A funny little video examining government healthcare in Oregon. H/T Cafe Hay
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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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