On Wednesday Globe and Mail arch-pundit Jeffrey Simpson called the Harper administration "a government of salesmen, not statesmen" who "don't let facts stand in the way of the pitch" because they've replaced good old broad-minded Red Toryism with a "narrower ideology". This deft rendering of the conventional wisdom managed, remarkably, to insult both salesman and ideologues while being exactly backwards. Click here to read the rest.
When an armed madman breaks into a school the right response is to drop to one knee and open fire. Anyone who calls that wrongheaded, or disgusting, invites serious questions about their priorities. Click here to read the rest.
The recent deadly gang-rape of a 23-year-old on a New Delhi bus dramatized the choking fear that stunts women’s lives throughout the subcontinent. Now do you see why effective self-defence is important? Click here to read the rest.
Years ago a friend told me if you never fall down skiing you’re not trying hard enough. I hope it applies to punditry too because I sure got the U.S. election wrong and now have to try to make credible sense of a result I firmly didn’t predict. Click here to read the rest.
Wherever the hidden imam may be hiding, it doesn’t seem to be the pages of Canadian newspapers. Which won’t bother Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad much since he despises Canada. But it should concern readers. Click here to read the rest.
Barack Obama, I am certain, was born in Hawaii. I wish he was certain too.Click here to read more.
Some journalists swooned over France's new socialist president François Hollande. Reuters news agency said he'd "swept to victory ... in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe," while the Globe and Mail crowed about "historic regime change" as though the French had overthrown a murderous tyrant rather than voting out a clown. Put away the champagne. There is nothing to celebrate here. Click here to read the rest.