What is the government doing giving people houses? Even if we accept that charity is properly the business of the state, which I don't, it still makes sense to ask: If food, clothing and shelter are the most basic necessities but no one thinks the welfare state should be knitting the poor sweaters or baking them buns, why are we so quick to ask it to build them houses? Click here to read the rest.
After a decade organizing a viable alternative to the Liberals and five years of difficult manoeuvrings in a minority Conservative government, the Harper Tories have their majority and may be tempted to think they have arrived. But political success is fleeting; they would be wise to seize the moment to make the actual conservative changes they went into politics to bring about. Click here to read the rest.
The Stephen Harper Conservatives have their majority at last. It's time for bold fiscal reform. Click here to read.
There was a moment when I felt fear in New York City this weekend. But it was in a taxi hurtling down Long Island Freeway into Manhattan traffic from LaGuardia. The place is still very much its amazing self. Click here to read the rest.
If you’ve heard William Shatner sing, or watched Attack of the Giant Leeches, you know something can be so exquisitely awful you can’t turn it off. On that basis I offer some Canadian political rhetoric to spice up your long weekend. Click here to read the rest.