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1) “The Star Tribune, saddled with high debt and a sharp decline in print advertising, filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition Thursday night.” 2) “The Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy protection in a federal court in Delaware on Monday, as the owner of The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Cubs baseball [...]

Like many other protests of Israel’s campaign in Gaza, this one ended badly

Colby Cosh claims that pro-lifers are hypocrites to support life-of-the-mother exceptions to abortion restrictions, on the ground that such exceptions place one life (the mother’s) over another (the fetus’s) — which, he says, is precisely what pro-lifers object to in the first place. I’ve thought about the issue Cosh raises, and I’m pretty sure he’s [...]

I feel like, over the past few weeks, I’ve found myself taking one lonely position after another defending the Harper Conservatives, to the point that Maderblog risks moving from a right wing blog to an affirmatively Conservative one – a move I have no intention of making, at least for the time being. I’ve often [...]

[NOTE: I have partially retracted some of the claims made in this post.] A very brief thought about the flap over the Senate appointments. While most of the hand-wringing in the media seems to reflect the shock – shock! – that someone would dare to play politics with Senate appointments, there is, I think, one [...]