So-called "evidence-based decision-making" is very popular these days. Actual evidence is rather less so. Especially of unwelcome things like the collapse of Britain's National Health Service on which ours is modelled. Since theirs is two decades older it offers a troubling preview of what we can expect around 2033. Click here to read the rest.
North Korea just threatened a nuclear attack on the United States and possibly an invasion of South Korea on the side. What should we do about it? Or rather, what can we do? Click here to read the rest.
Watching the United States jump back from the fiscal cliff straight into the 'sequester' is as horrible as it is instructive. Click here to read the rest.
Canada's new Office of Religious Freedom, with a $5-million budget and astaff of five, may set tyrants around the world shaking ... with laughter. But a candle is worth lighting given the extent of darkness out there.
Oh, here's a charming story out of Libya. Authorities just arrested four foreigners on suspicion of being Christian missionaries. So why weren't we told about this sooner? Like in 2011 when we were fighting to put such splendid freedom-loving people in power there. Click here to read the rest.
Benedict XVI startled the world this week by becoming the ninth pope toannounce he'll step down. Or possibly the fifth. We're not sure. But as only the second to resign because the job was too much for him, the first to quit in almost 600 years and the first ever to do it because of failing health, the allegedly reactionary Benedict set a boldly innovative precedent.