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Jan 5th, 2022 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
NEW YEAR SPECIAL FROM L. FRANK BUNTING, PANCAKE BAY, ON. 2 AM ET, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2022. It has lately been seriously enough cold up here on the eastern shore of Lake Superior (though nothing like Edmonton, Alberta at – 26° C). Most recently in the local metropolis of Sault Ste Marie the weather has […]
Tags: BC Government Photographs, Betty White, Cobb County Georgia, coffee recipes, David Beers, democracy in Doug Ford's Ontario, Gordon V. Thompson, Jan 6 2021 first anniversary, January 6 committee, Joan Walsh on voting rights, Pancake Bay Ontario, Trump's Big Lie Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 18th, 2021 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK : L. FRANK BUNTING, VISITING COLUMNIST FROM PANCAKE BAY. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16/WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2021. I am just down from the new north on a visit, communing with the head office staff, reintegrating into the mind of the herd, and enjoying unusually brilliant autumn colours here on the northwest shore […]
Tags: Alberta child care, BC flooding and mudslides, Biden and Xi meet virtually, Inflation and pandemic recovery, James Meek on assimilating the pandemic, Justin Trudeau and Jason Kenney, North American summit 2021, US Infrastructure Act 2021 Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 20th, 2021 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM L. FRANK BUNTING, PANCAKE BAY, ONTARIO. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2021. The deep northern autumn is setting in. Forecasts here call for a low of 0° C this coming Friday night (and early Saturday morning). I’m in one of my recurrent anti-political moods. I agree with the UK emeritus professor Malcolm Gaskill, who writes […]
Tags: Aaron Wherry, Amarjeet Sohi, Angus Reid on back to normal, Bliss Carman, Charlie Parker With Strings, Chief Rosanne Casimir, Fiona Wedster, Head of state in Canada, Jon Stewart, Justin Trudeau and Indigenous policy, Jyoti Gondek, Malcolm Gaskill, Mary Simon, Shuffle Demons Posted in In Brief |
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May 23rd, 2021 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: Countries of the World
SPECIAL FROM L. FRANK BUNTING, PANCAKE BAY, ONTARIO. 24TH OF MAY WEEKEND. The May 13, 2021 issue of the New York Review of Books has an essay by Mark Lilla on the German novelist Thomas Mann (1875–1955), and his rather strange 1918 book Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man. (The NYRB Classics series is in fact […]
Tags: conservatism today, Democracy in the 2020s, Democratic and Authoritarian state, Franz Neumann and 2020s, Herbert Marcuse and Franz Neumann, Mark Lilla on Thomas Mann, Reagan and Thatcher conservatism, Thomas Mann and 2020s Posted in Countries of the World |
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Mar 14th, 2021 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM L. FRANK BUNTING, PANCAKE BAY/ALONA BAY, ONTARIO. Some on Twitter have been reacting with bemusement to President Biden’s closing remarks in his first televised address to the American people this past Thursday night : “Thank you for taking the time and listening. I look forward to seeing you.” It is the very last […]
Tags: Ash Sarkar, Biden 11 March 2021, Bizarre closing to Biden speech?, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian parliamentary democracy, class inequality and monarchy, Commonwealth, Harry and Meghan, racism and Meghan Markle, Trisha Goddard Posted in In Brief |
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Jan 18th, 2021 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM L. FRANK BUNTING, PANCAKE BAY, ON. JANUARY 18, 2021, 2 AM, 2 PM ET : Some worried that yesterday would be a kind of state-Capitol reprise of what transpired at the national Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. According to CNN, however : “Weekend protests at state capitols stayed small amid heavy […]
Tags: Betty White 99th birthday, Claire Wang, Jan 17 at state capitols, Martin Luther King Jr Day 2021, non-violent democratic protest, South Vietnam flag at January 6 US Capitol invasion Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 7th, 2020 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM L. FRANK BUNTING, PANCAKE BAY, ON. OCTOBER 7, 2020 : On a trip last year I bumped into a gentleman from the white suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia who claimed that, whatever else, Donald Trump “isn’t as bad as Warren Harding.” For those of us who know next to nothing about Warren Gamaliel Harding, […]
Tags: Atlanta suburbs, Donald Trump and Warren Harding, Front Porch Campaigns, John Dean on Warren Harding, Ohio Gang, Russell Baker on Warren Harding, Teapot Dome, Trump and Harding political base, US election 1920 and 2020 Posted in In Brief |
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Jul 5th, 2020 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: USA Today
L. FRANK BUNTING : History is written by the winners as the old adage has it. Looking at Donald Trump’s USA halfway through 2020 suggests a corollary : it is also constantly being re-written as the winners change. “America” today is not what it was in 1920, to say nothing of 1820, 1720, or especially […]
Tags: Adam Shatz, Al Sharpton, Barack Obama and Mitch McConnell, David Runciman, demographic change in USA, Francis Drake, Iroquois confederacy, multicultural America, public option in Obamacare, White Hegemony Posted in USA Today |
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Apr 6th, 2020 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
Our spies in the Golden State North have sometimes lately alluded to a possible great trek east out of San Francisco along US Interstate Highway 80, in search of better ground. The concept is not unique. As long ago as March 22 the Los Angeles Times was reporting : “As the coronavirus pandemic tightens its […]
Tags: Auburn, Bay Area, Cheyenne, coronavirus and creative destruction, Dwight Eisenhower and Interstate Highways, Gallup on workers at home, I-80, Interstate Highway System, Muskoka, Sierra Nevada Posted in In Brief |
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Feb 10th, 2020 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
[UPDATED FEB 19, 20]. One particular strange thing about Steve Bannon’s appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Friday, February 7, 2020, was his portrayal of Boris Johnson’s Brexit- at-last on January 31 as an achievement of Donald Trump. In a similar vein I do not at all agree with the Daily Beast assessment that […]
Tags: Adam Bienkov, Andrew Gillum, Bill Maher, Boris Johnson and Trump, Ezra Klein, Fareed Zakaria, Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Boris Johnson, Huawei, impeachment Trump, Michael Bloomberg, rich Democrats in California, Robert Reich on Bloomberg, SDarah Isgur, Seventy-Two Virgins, Steve Banon Posted in In Brief |
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