The Ontario Progressive Conservative party isn’t just running around like a chicken with no head. Its leadership candidates are promising when it gets a head it will be empty. It matters, even if you don’t live in Ontario, because this relentless quest for lack of ideas is everywhere in modern politics. Click here to read the rest.

If you love your freedom, thank a Greek. Specifically Themistocles. Click here to read the rest.

Now that Scots have voted decisively not to leave the UK yet, a bit, British politicians need to discuss something important. If only they knew how. Click here to read the rest.

Thomas Mulcair got into his time machine to visit Iraq last week. But I don’t think he turned the knob far enough. Click here to read the rest.

Everything is subsidized in Canada. Everything. Click here to read the rest.

So we’re off to Iraq, or back to Iraq, after all. My my. Nothing quite like geopolitics to drive home Philip K. Dick’s dictum “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn’t go away.” Click here to read the rest.

Remember that kerfuffle when someone hacked the online naked photos of some gorgeous famous women? Oh, you do. Very interesting from the point of view of cybersecurity. I thought so myself. Click here to read the rest.

The problem of unspeech in politics seems to be getting worse. Politicians have gone from misrepresenting reality to flatly ignoring it. Click here to read the rest.