The front page story on newspapers across Canada, and the lead item on the various national newscasts these past few days, take the federal Liberal government to task for wrongdoing relating to past payment of Public Works department ‘sponsorship’ monies, $100 million of which was funneled through a handful of Liberal-friendly advertising firms in Québéc.
The popularity of the national government, at present, is in freefall, the opposition is having a field day, and Prime Minister Paul Martin appears to have lost the confidence of Canadians only two months into his ‘mandate’. How did this come to pass? Certainly not solely because of misappropriation of funds issues, or allegations of wrong-doing in the province of Québéc, and its corollary, concomitant federal government corruption.

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Daryl Cagle’s political cartoonists index from today’s Slate magazine.

Christopher Hitchens: In Microsoft’s online magazine, Slate, political observer and Pulitzer Prize winning essayist Christopher Hitchens offers his druthers for the Democratic ticket, come this November 2nd.

Jay Currie has written a fine piece, published today in The American Spectator, the respected and influential conservative intellectual review.
Deconstructing eminent American conservative critic Andrew Sullivan’s waning support for the Bush administration, Mr. Currie covers the gamut of issues which confront libertarian social critics, the so-called American “creative elite”, who must square the circle of their 2000 support for Bush, in the face of the President’s 2004 religious right-endorsed, anti-gay, fiscally questionable, and reckless neo-imperialist foreign policy.