If you’re among the people psychologists claim are having trouble coping with the Mayan apocalypse no-show, relax. Western civilization faces a genuine threat of staggering proportions that our leaders are ignoring, perhaps because of its boring name, Electro-Magnetic Pulse or EMP. Click here to read the rest.
So the United States didn’t go off the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Instead Republicans circled the wagons, fired inward then gave President Obama and the Democrats almost all the tax increases they wanted in return for — spending increases. Progressive opinion cheered even though the nation and its politicians remain poised atop a real fiscal cliff a trillion dollars high. Click here to read the rest.
Theresa Spence hunger strike, Idle No More movement and associated demonstrations have revealed a worryingly deep streak of utopian militancy among Canadian aboriginals. Their cosmic demands and ominous rhetoric are both driven by ideas that must be digested sympathetically then rejected with courteously absolute firmness. Click here to read more.
Timbuktu is a mess these days. But it's far from obvious that Canada can or should fix it up. Click here to read the rest.