http://www.tyronenicholas.com/ en-us Copyright 2008 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:42:14 -0600 Thu, 22 May 2008 07:12:29 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2007/03/post_1.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2007/03/post_1.html Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:42:14 -0600 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... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2007/02/why_john_waugh.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2007/02/why_john_waugh.html Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:17:59 -0600 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... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2007/01/margaret_wente.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2007/01/margaret_wente.html Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:47:37 -0600 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... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2005/11/caste_off_your_1.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2005/11/caste_off_your_1.html Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:03:24 -0600 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... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2005/11/the_ukrainian_g.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2005/11/the_ukrainian_g.html Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:59:52 -0600 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... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2005/11/the_silent_geno.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2005/11/the_silent_geno.html Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:19:44 -0600 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,... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2005/01/view_from_an_ou.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2005/01/view_from_an_ou.html Fri, 07 Jan 2005 18:02:43 -0600 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,... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/12/war_and_peace_a.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/12/war_and_peace_a.html Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:20:11 -0600 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... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/11/how_democrats_c.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/11/how_democrats_c.html Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:54:29 -0600 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... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/11/why_we_need_to.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/11/why_we_need_to.html Thu, 11 Nov 2004 02:22:25 -0600 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... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/11/democrats_need.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/11/democrats_need.html Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:05:19 -0600 "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" -... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/11/why_voting_repu.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/11/why_voting_repu.html Fri, 05 Nov 2004 02:15:09 -0600 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... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/09/powell_uses_the.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/09/powell_uses_the.html Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:38:11 -0600 Steps for Saving Lives in Sudan Frist doesn't ask for US troops, just logistical support and transport.  Actual troops would be supplied by the African Union and by the rebels in the south. Diaries :: tyronen's diary :: Forces led... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/08/i_agree_with_bi.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/08/i_agree_with_bi.html Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:33:59 -0600 In Iraq, Bush didn't give a rat's ass what the Arab world, or anyone else, thought. But the Arab world was right and he was wrong. On Sudan, the Arab states are wrong, continuing to back one of their own,... http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/07/now_bush_listen.html http://www.tyronenicholas.com/archives/2004/07/now_bush_listen.html Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:16:16 -0600