@shadowpages
I *think* that they choose subscriber-exclusive content based on what they believe appeals strongly to their users and what they can't get elsewhere: inveighers #RexMurphy and #ConradBlack always seem to be subscriber-only, whereas writers who reveal new facts are generally ungated.

As to the articles you mention, #ColbyCosh on 3D-printed guns made the point that other guns were more of a problem in crime, and that someone can make a sturdier gun in other ways.

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#FridayFun
What are they looking at?
Wrong answers only.

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Wait, does it count when you don't know what the RIGHT answer is?

#GameNight #JordanPeterso #RexMurphy #GrumpyOldMen

People wrote such things about #RonaldReagan , and it seems that they were mostly false. In the case of President #JoeBiden , I find it really hard to assess his mental acuity given the political polarisation. How can the public really know?

If things are as bad as #RexMurphy asserts, then "The question is surely being posed in all the high councils of the world: who, what person or persons, is really “in charge” of the government of the United States?"

#uspol

The USA is "being led by a man who in almost every public appearance gives clear signs that he is not — to be kind — in command of the momentous office he holds. It is a hard thing to say, and it is not intended as a meanness directed to his person, but far more to be a matter of pity rather than scorn: the gentleman cannot provide the leadership the office of the president must offer."

#RexMurphy

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-the-united-states-is-adrift-and-joe-biden-is-no-captain

#uspol
#NationalPost

"This week, we found out that the attempt to burn down an apartment building in Ottawa, which was so widely and wildly heralded during the Freedom Convoy protest, had nothing to do with the truckers."

#RexMurphy expects that the inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act will be sandbagged by the Liberal/NDP team.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-will-anyone-apologize-for-falsely-accusing-truckers-of-attempted-arson-in-ottawa

#FreedomConvoy2022 #canpol
#NationalPost

"Here’s the mother of all questions for Trudeau and it is one that he cannot, and will never, answer: what was so difficult about having a talk with the leaders of a group of Canadians who found some of the government’s COVID regulations to be a grievous burden?"

#RexMurphy : Trudeau's monumentally misguided emergency measures are an insult to Canadians
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-trudeaus-monumentally-misguided-emergency-measures-are-an-insult-to-canadians

#FreedomConvoy2022 #JustinTrudeau
#canpol
#NationalPost

Rex Murphy: More reasons some Canadians distrust the powers-that-be | National Post
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-more-reasons-some-canadians-distrust-the-powers-that-be

#RexMurphy #covid19
#NationalPost

@zudlig Does #RexMurphy not believe in anthropogenic #ClimateChange ? I rarely read his columns. The prose is nice enough, but I don't find them particularly insightful.

"This was the moment that skepticism of the authorities was powerfully launched and the public recognized there was not one set of rules for all, and that even the strictest medical advice could easily, almost triumphantly, be trumped by political considerations."

How COVID-19 taught the public to distrust the authorities
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-how-covid-19-taught-the-public-to-distrust-the-authorities

#RexMurphy #covid19
#NationalPost

"And all the while, even during the days, if I may call them that, of oil “prosperity,” government spending always outclassed revenue, by Greene’s estimate by a full quarter of the budgets — 25 per cent."

#RexMurphy

How horrible is debt! How miserable the consequences of spending more than one earns! [0]

The feds should pass a #bankruptcy law for provinces and territories.

[0] And yet Canadians elected a second PM Trudeau...

#canpol
#nlpol #NewfoundlandLabrador

"Newfoundland and Labrador has escaped the skeleton hand of bankruptcy thus far only because the federal programs to combat COVID-19 brought new cash into the province. It is not a good thing when a pandemic is the reason a province is not in bankruptcy."

#RexMurphy

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-its-hard-hard-times-in-newfoundland-and-it-doesnt-look-hopeful

#nlpol #NewfoundlandLabrador
#NationalPost

Rex Murphy: Christie Blatchford was the epitome of journalistic bravery. Boy, do we miss her now
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-christie-blatchford-was-the-epitome-of-journalistic-bravery-boy-do-we-miss-her-now

#ChristieBlatchford
#RexMurphy #NationalPost

This is the worst Canadian government ever. Can there be any question?
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-this-is-the-worst-canadian-government-ever-can-there-be-any-question

#RexMurphy #NationalPost
#canpol

The truly shocking thing, IIRC, is that Mr. Biden wasn't pressed to give a clear denial.

"There is no way, adequately, to express the dissonance. Even the wildest, most apoplectic anti-Trumpers absolutely know, that if the same set of circumstances involving Donald Trump’s son were headlined in a national newspaper of repute, the coverage would be volcanic, furious, unremitting, and savage. It would “wither the crops.”"

#RexMurphy | #NationalPost
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-hunter-biden-saga-reeks-of-media-hypocrisy

#uspol