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He may be Newfoundland's best-known journalist. Rex Murphy presents informed, insightful and sometimes biting commentary on The National, focusing topics in the news. Rex's Point of View is sharp, provocative and pointed. And whether or not you agree with him, he makes you think! We often make room for rebuttals on a subsequent program, so your contributions are appreciated. Click below for the text or the real video clip.

2005

  • The price being paid for this charade Nov. 21, 2005
  • Election now or in April, it's no difference Nov. 21, 2005
  • Sell the Peace Tower to Wal-Mart? Nov. 2, 2005
  • The wheel turns and the other crowd gets in Oct. 27, 2005
  • Shouldn't he first get diplomatic immunity? Oct. 20, 2005
  • One great pool for their partisan whims and fancies Oct. 12, 2005
  • The sacred Charter cat is among the holy health care pigeons June 9, 2005
  • Hurly burly June 1, 2005
  • Belinda doesn't climb mountains May 26, 2005
  • A peacock among the vultures May 18, 2005
  • The Gomery Parliament has never been a real Parliament May 11, 2005
  • On politics and remembrance May 3, 2005
  • A great stew of opportunism and desperation April 28, 2005
  • Hold the writ and keep on truckin' April 18, 2005
  • A new life to Canada's national nightmare April 6, 2005
  • John Paul II:One of the very last truly great ones April 1, 2005
  • Michael Jackson, Prince Charles and Gomery March 29, 2005
  • Air India: a vast anguish-producing process March 23, 2005
  • A hard and bitter day March 4, 2005
  • The precision of a bowl of spaghetti caught by a hurricane Feb. 28, 2005
  • Rideau Hall is more subtle than Gary Bettman Feb. 17, 2005
  • A piece of vaudeville scorn Feb. 9, 2005
  • Church, state, and the same-sex debate Feb. 1, 2005
  • The bitterest message we can know Jan. 26, 2005
  • Flying once again Jan. 12, 2005

    2004

  • Goodbye to 2004 Dec. 31, 2004
  • The worst things happen in the poorest places to people in the weakest circumstances Dec. 28, 2004
  • Canada has its view of the world and the Americans have theirs Dec. 1, 2004
  • Mr. Klein is frequently "misunderestimated" by his opponents Nov. 23, 2004
  • People who think George Bush is the stupid party ought to visit a mirror Nov. 17, 2004
  • It is not the veterans' problem that the Bloc is a political oxymoron Nov. 9, 2004
  • A house divided against itself cannot stand Nov. 3, 2004
  • Parliament Hill is up, but is it running? Oct.22, 2004
  • The Beatles had a better submarine Oct. 6, 2004
  • A two H country Sept. 21, 2004
  • The garbage equivalent of second-hand smoke Sept. 10, 2004
  • Crosbie has an appetite for the sport of politics of a 20-year-old. May 27, 2004
  • The wrath that comes from a million interrupted barbecues... May 17, 2004
  • Credibility at the cost of scandal May 11, 2004
  • Saints and dragons; Sheila Fraser and Don Cherry May 4, 2004
  • Time to make the choice Apr. 20, 2004
  • The most toxic political virus in the world Apr. 6, 2004
  • Rex Murphy's bottom line Mar. 23, 2004
  • An awkward innocence from a former finance minister Feb. 11, 2004
  • The best thing about Belinda Stronach Jan. 30, 2004
  • The downside of being wealthy Jan. 22, 2004
  • The standoff at Kanesatake Jan. 16, 2004
  • The gun registry: A billion dollar bag of perfect uselessness Jan. 7, 2004
    2003

  • Miserable, brutal and grandiose leaders: The capture of Saddam Hussein Dec. 14, 2003
  • The rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizenship Dec. 3, 2003
  • The rights of all of us Nov. 25, 2003
  • Shawinigan 1, Crossharbour 0 Nov. 21, 2003
  • Hook, line and sinker  Oct. 28, 2003
  • An alternative in the wings?  Oct. 23, 2003
  • William Sampson  Oct. 2, 2003
  • The Liberal succession  Sept. 22, 2003
  • Jean Paul Martin Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada  Sept. 16, 2003
  • Give Saudi Arabia the diplomatic boot  Sept. 10, 2003
  • Harper's same–sex theory  Sept. 5, 2003
  • Shakespeare or a fake? (video only): Part one; part two  Sept. 3, 2003
  • The Tory leadership: Free trade or no?  June 3, 2003
  • Not in the news: The Tory leadership race  May 28, 2003
  • The Prime Minister's long good-bye  May 19, 2003
  • Newfoundland calls to amend Constitution  May 8, 2003
  • The East Coast fishery  May 6, 2003
  • SARS  Apr. 23, 2003
  • Jean Charest  Apr. 16, 2003
  • The removal of a tyrant: George Bush got it right  Apr. 10, 2003
  • Canada's wavering war stance  Apr. 7, 2003
  • The real cost of war in Iraq  Mar. 25, 2003
  • To war or not to war: Canada faces a morality test  Mar. 11, 2003
  • Doughnut diplomacy in the Liberal leadership race  Feb. 25, 2003
  • Air India plea bargain  Feb. 11, 2003
  • We are a health care nation  Feb. 4, 2003
  • Bush's state of the union address  Jan. 29, 2003
  • The Liberal leadership race  Jan. 15, 2003
  • Ice Hockey  Jan. 10, 2003
  • 2002 Review  Jan. 1, 2003
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