Governor Jan Brewer’s book, Scorpions for Breakfast, has seen a 2.2 Million Percent increase in sales at Amazon.com since her confrontation with El Messiah at the airport.

Some might argue that he is making a mistake in the interest of political correctness and avoiding opening up a new line of attack from the Liberals & NDP.

h/t Revnant Dream

After tonight’s debate I guess we’ll have a good idea whether Newt is Inevitable and Mitt is unelectable…or the reverse again, or not, or something.

The National Post editorial board has just published a stunning indictment of the Alberta “Conservatives”.

Since 2001, Alberta has seen a remarkable expansion of provincial revenues, due mostly to rising oil and natural gas prices. Even excluding health, education and welfare transfers from Ottawa, Alberta’s provincial revenues have risen 56% in the past decade, despite the worldwide economic downturn.
So where has all this additional money gone? According to the U of C study, public sector wages have “consumed 95% of the increase in provincial revenues over the past decade.” For every new dollar Alberta has brought in — nearly $11-billion extra a year — 95¢ has gone into the pockets of civil servants and other public-sector workers.

Hopefully enough voters in the province are fed up and have seen the light.
P.S. Within a few years could there possibly be true conservative governments across the 3 Western provinces?

Is Mitt Romney finally beginning to understand that conservative voters want someone who can flatten Barack Obama in a debate and not just a repeat of McCain ’08?!?

Newt Gingrich has been saying some peculiar things of late, that is if you’re a Republican. This ad, produced by a political action committee supporting him, could be re-purposed by the Democrats without changing one word:

Update: For those interested, wall-to-wall coverage of the New Hampshire Primary can be heard here.

Iceland’s fear of the euro collapsing has caused one of Iceland’s political parties to openly suggest the idea of going Canadian and dropping the idea of EU membership and currency.

h/t Adrian

Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends.

I wish I could disagree with him, but I can’t find fault in what Mark Steyn is saying.
Is it not mind-boggling that after the conservative Tea Party revolution in the Republican Party that the two leading contenders ending up being Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich?
Related: The gents at Ricochet discuss the situation with Glenn Reynolds.

I’ve long heard it conceded by conservative American political commentators that, while the Democrats may be the “Evil Party”, the Republicans are very likely the “Stupid Party”. They’re not referring to the rank & file supporters of either party but rather to those who run them.
Can’t say I’m very pleased to see the antics going on with the mainstream Republican candidates or with the fellow living out on his own private island.

Why is there ALWAYS a big screen tv?

A debate.

If you’d like to better understand the bizarre series of events that propelled Alison Redford into the top job in Alberta, listen to this discussion between Charles Adler and Kevin Libin.
No fair minded person can make any sort of salient argument that Redford’s election represented any semblance of “the will of the people”. Besides the peculiar mathematical formula that was used to elect her, it’s now clear that she recruited all sorts of public sector union members to become temporary PC members; folks by the way, who would normally never vote anything other than NDP or Liberal. THIS is the system that the province’s governing party has in place within its own house?!?
In a new column, Libin points out that Redford appears set to invoke a wide swath of undemocratic policy changes, essentially ruling by decree:

“Ms. Redford claims she is all about change, but within 12 hours of being crowned Premier, she announces she is shutting down the legislature for nine months so she can avoid facing the opposition in the people’s democratically elected House,” said Rob Anderson, an MLA for the Wildrose party.
Brian Mason, the New Democratic Party leader, says Ms. Redford is “overreaching her authority.” Since she has yet to face voters herself, he calls the decision to axe the legislative session “high handed and anti-democratic.”

Is it too far a stretch to conclude that a peaceful coup d’état has just occurred in Alberta? The question is, will the voters of Alberta put a stop to this come the next election?

In somewhat of a surprise victory, Alison Redford has won the leadership of the Alberta PC Party and will now be the Premier of the province.
Alberta voters now have a clear choice to make in the next provincial election:

• Spendaholic, unaccountable same old, same old “progressive” policies under Redford
• Responsible conservative policies under Danielle Smith

Let’s hope they make the right choice!

Hanging out in Calgary these days, I’m getting a first hand look at Alberta politics. In this morning’s Calgary Herald was this story by Lorne Gunter. A fellow named Ken Boessenkool has formed the Alberta Blue Committee as a grassroots effort to ensure that some semblance of conservative policies remain in the province. Given that a CINO Party has been running Alberta for many years now, things don’t look too hopeful at this time.
However, there is hope! I trust (and pray) that the voters of Alberta won’t be as stupid as those back in my home province of B.C. and take things to a point where there are only two choices: Centre-Left and Far-Left (aka Tweedledee and Tweedledum), each with absolutely no clue about fiscal responsibility.

The nonsense going on at the airports in America will continue to grow elsewhere unless the sheeple stand up and say ‘No More!”.

Immigration Levels and Mix: Stakeholder and Public Consultation

Publius takes mighty umbrage at a slashing slight to his ethnicity of origin:

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What? There’s no Portuguese? They’ve got Tamil and not Portuguese? Do you have to occupy an elevated highway to get any respect in this province? Leaving aside the inappropriateness of producing a campaign document in languages other than English and French, what exactly does Tim Hudak have against the Luso-Ontarian community? Did his cleaning lady abscond with the silverware?..

He’s also not best pleased with the Ontario PC’s election platform (which for some reason in not titled Changebook)–read all about it, esp fans of e. e. cummings.