The Dirty Dozen

Andrew at Bound has tagged me in some kind of bizarre favourite blog list.  I'll just give an annotated list of twelve blogs I think everyone should read on a daily basis.  In the order in which I read them every day.

Angry in the Great White North - How he finds the time I have no idea.  The blog is a one man aggregating service with sarcasm added on free of charge.

The Eclectic Econoclast - An economics blog run by a professor of economics.  At Western no less.  If you're an economics addict - someone who tries to explain everything with reference to economics - then this is a must on your daily tour of the blogsphere.

Le Blog Polyscopique - Surprisingly one of the few bilingual blog on the blogsphere.  A rare combination of Quebec politics, statistics and free market economics.  If you want to know what the other solitude is thinking this would be a good place to start.

Burkean Canuck - A former flack who's an aspiring hack.  One of the often feared "religious" conservatives who "lurk" in the CPC organization.  He was also a parliamentary assistant for the old Reform Party.  Did I mention he's an evangelical Christian from Alberta?  Who lives in Toronto?  The frisson is simply irresistible.  Invaluable commentary on politics and religion.  It's OK people.  They don't bite.

Dust My Broom - A Metis engineer who likes to ski naked in the middle of the prairie winter.  I need say no more. 

Sobering Thoughts - Another "religious" conservative.  Andrew seems to have a thing for lefties, I prefer the God-fearing.  Better music and better writing.  The blog belongs to Paul Tuns, author of Legacy of Scandal a scathing look at the corrupt regime of Papa Jean.  When his now little magazine, The Interim, makes it big, as it will, the word ultra will be applied both to many of the author's views and to his abilities as a journalist and commentator.  Those who dismiss the religious in Canada as unthinking throw backs to another age are going to be in for a shock as the Canadian "religious right" comes to influence.  They've got ideas and they're learning how to sell them.  You've been warned.

The Solblog:  I've been trying for months to get people to adopt the nickname "Solblog" for Monte Solberg's blog.  I think it's incredibly clever.  I know, I'm in a minority.  Whenever you start thinking that Parliament is full of thieves and unprincipled whores, read his blog.

The London Fog:  Witnesses to the prelude.  If you want to know where Canada is going read the writings of these brave souls living in the town that common sense forgot.      

The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor & Stupid:  Run by the American economics writer and investment guru Don Luskin, this blog documents the continued assaults on economic freedom in the USA.  He does however spend quite a bit of time "stalking" Princeton "economist" and NYT wannabe philosopher king Paul Krugman.  Shooting fish in a barrel in some ways, but always entertaining.

Mises Blog: What libertarian economists are thinking. 

Colby Cosh:  To know him is to read him on a regular basis.

The Shotgun:  Too obvious a choice?  Still, the best group blog out there,  Yes, that includes the E-Group.