Praise the Over Lord! Heather Mallick of the Toronto Star has finally said what so many of us just knew all along, 'we don't pay enough taxes.' "In fact, just about every mess we’re in is because we don’t pay enough of them."

You know, because we only pay on average 42% of our incomes in taxes. Surely, more tax dollars in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats is what's needed. Muskoka could always use a new gazebo or two.

Yet while the Harper Government© has failed abysmally to live up to the allegations that it would have a hidden agenda, Mallick has screamed from the rooftops during this election that should a majority result, the Fifth Horseman of Apocalypse would be wearing blue sweater.

• "For a man whose very hair is screaming to escape from its tyrannical overseer, he sure doesn’t understand what the northern nations do with their money and why they gleam internationally." - April 16, 2011
• "With a Harper majority, evangelicals will be openly part of government." - March 29, 2011
• "The Conservative hate machine will swivel toward you like a Dalek and advance. You're doomed. A Harper majority government wouldn't just lash out generally. It would hunt down its enemies." - March 28, 2011

To be sure, some of the anti-Ignatieff rhetoric has been equally as over the top. For starters, he is not Chairman Mao reincarnate, nor is his wife a fair target for partisans.

So come on partisans and columnists. Share an opinion. Have an angle, but stop this kind of over-the-top fear mongering. Anchor your opinions in fact and reality. You and what you have to say will be more respected for it.