Justin Trudeau's knee-jerk "root causes" explanation of the Boston Marathon bombing, "there is no question that this happened because there is someone who feels completely excluded", certainly shows he's not ready for prime time. But the question of root causes would be interesting if the phrase were not clearly code for "it's our fault." Click here to read the rest.
So World War I was a “bourgeois” war fought by capitalists on the backsof workers and peasants. Is that the sort of national security thinking the NDP want to take into 24 Sussex?
Margaret Thatcher was respected abroad, archetypically British and entirely at odds with her times. The three together made her great. Click here to read the rest.
Peering through the haze into North Korea we seem to see a man in a clown suit yelling incoherently and waving an axe. But we can't tell if it's an act or psychotic rage, whether the axe is real or what's under the clown makeup. Perhaps another clown. Click here to read more.
How can the federal NDP be debating whether to stop calling themselves socialists? It's not that political philosophy doesn't matter. It does, so much it can't be a standalone PR decision. It has to come from debating whether socialism is a good idea. Click here to read the rest.
Canada is part of a scary international experiment. If I call it "quantitative easing" you might pass out or flee. But I bet "governments printing money like there's no tomorrow" gets your attention. Click here to read the rest.