http://www.tyronenicholas.com/ en-us 2010-03-01T20:32:54-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2010/03/the_climate_cha.html Lately I have been spending more time studying the issue of climate change. The good news about climate change is that solutions exist. We can make our machines, vehicles, and devices vastly more energy-efficient. Instead of coal and oil, we... Tyrone 2010-03-01T20:32:54-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2010/03/post_2.html Tyrone 2010-03-01T20:32:28-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2007/03/post_1.html Monday cannot be seen but as a sad day for Québec and for Canada. What was once Canada's most progressive and visionary province - the land of $7-a-day child care, affordable tuition, cheap public transit, and the Caisse de dépôt... Tyrone 2007-03-28T10:42:14-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2007/02/why_john_waugh.html Here we go again. Somebody scolds the NDP for not doing enough to help elect Liberals. New Democrats huff and puff that it's not their job to elect Liberals, who are bunch of reactionary stooges anyway, and anyone who says... Tyrone 2007-02-09T12:17:59-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2007/01/margaret_wente.html Cross-posted from my other blog, Wente Watch. This post serves as a summary of my opinion of the Canadian newspaper columnist, Margaret Wente Margaret Wente is not the worst columnist in the Globe's stable - that honour goes to the... Tyrone 2007-01-11T20:47:37-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2005/11/caste_off_your_1.html India's caste system, although illegal on paper, remains one of the world's most odious forms of injustice. The country's 200 million Dalits ("untouchables") remain trapped in horrific lives of unimaginable poverty, brutalized by sectarian violence, hemmed in by hundreds of... Tyrone 2005-11-28T14:03:24-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2005/11/the_ukrainian_g.html Today, Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko opened an exhibition about the genocide of 1932-33. Most genocides in history were carried out to eliminate a group of people; Armenians, Jews, Rwandan Tutsis, or Darfur blacks. In contrast, killing people was not... Tyrone 2005-11-25T17:59:52-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2005/11/the_silent_geno.html It kills without hesitation, without pause, without mercy. Its victims are the young and the old, from parents to children, with no thought of race or creed. It strangles out life slowly, brutally, watching coldly as people waste away, their... Tyrone 2005-11-21T18:19:44-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2005/01/view_from_an_ou.html Visit any Indian city and you will see beggars. Not the handfuls of beggars that used to populate American cities, but hundreds of thousands of people futilely asking for a few rupees. Even if you give just one rupee each,... Tyrone 2005-01-07T18:02:43-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/12/war_and_peace_a.html Never mind moral values. The dominant reason Bush won the election was the belief that he would be tougher on terrorism than Kerry would be. This is demonstrably false, but people believed it. In virtually the entire history of America,... Tyrone 2004-12-07T16:20:11-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/11/how_democrats_c.html Several different explanations have been floating as to why Kerry lost, and how Democrats could win in the future. These are: Run more charismatic candidates. On the surface, this seems obvious; not since Adlai Stevenson's time has the more charismatic... Tyrone 2004-11-19T20:54:29-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/11/why_we_need_to.html The conventional wisdom that is stubbornly repeated after every election loss is here again. Democrats are elitist, out-of-touch east coasters. If they were to stop looking down on southerners, and run southern candidates, they would win. By that logic, Republicans... Tyrone 2004-11-11T02:22:25-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/11/democrats_need.html The "soft-on-defense" tag continues to dog Democrats, and cost us this election. Yes, "moral values" scored slightly higher than "terrorism", but that is a composite of three separate issues: abortion, gay marriage, and religion. The number one issue for Republican... Tyrone 2004-11-05T19:05:19-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/11/why_voting_repu.html "Open your mouth, judge righteously, And plead the cause of the poor and needy" - Proverbs 31:9 "The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger" -... Tyrone 2004-11-05T02:15:09-06:00 http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/09/powell_uses_the.html Powell has finally called a spade a spade: Sudan is guilty of genocide in (we hope) the official opinion of the US administration. Now the more important question: what does he plan to do about it? Currently, there are only... Tyrone 2004-09-09T14:38:11-06:00