Here's yet another weird story. The head of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea wants people to use balloons and computer hacking to spread the news within North Korea that North Korea has a horrible human rights record. I think they know it. They live there. It's kind of obvious. I guess they might like to get balloons, or computers. But it seems a strange and myopic way to look at the problem and the commission report.

Sorry to burst his balloon. But what's really needed is for people in the outside world to know how bad things are and, once they know it, to act as though they knew it. To support strong measures against the North Korean regime's appalling military and foreign policy ambitions, and to treat with loathing any government that aids and abets the tyrants in Pyongyang.

File this under “News stories that should surprise no one”: Fighting continues in Ukraine despite a Western-brokered “ceasefire.” It’s the familiar pattern when a group of people who piously insist that a conflict can have no military solution sit down with the guys imposing one. First the nice guys sign a humiliatingly one-sided deal that places specific, unreasonable requirements on their ally who is getting pummeled in return for nebulous and unenforceable obligations on the people doing the pummeling.

Then the appeasers take the deal as proof that the bad guys never really meant it, it was all a misunderstanding and there is no military solution. But the bad guys take it as proof that the military solution is working brilliantly, not just gaining ground but causing the clueless weaklings opposite to grovel.

Then the aggression continues.

When you put your face under a bully’s foot, he steps on it. It should surprise no one.

Sun News Network has set. It is a bittersweet feeling. Click here to read the rest.

Does anybody remember soft power? Apparently Canada has it in abundance. It just doesn’t work. Click here to read the rest.

How can our politicians be stumped by simple questions like “Should we be fighting in Iraq?” or even “Are we fighting in Iraq?” Click here to read the rest.

What happens when voters reject reality? Let’s all watch Greece and find out… because we might be next. Click here to read the rest.

Now that the Bank of Canada has cut the interest rate by exactly 0.25% we must wait reverently for the magic to infuse the economy. Click here to read the rest.

Free speech is a difficult concept. First the French rally for it before arresting people with obnoxious opinions. Then the Pope threatens to punch you for cussing his mother, which he compares to mocking faith. Clearly we need to go over it again. Click here to read the rest.