You can watch the video of my Feb. 9 debate on Canada’s response to ISIL and other such horrors, sponsored by the Institute for Liberal Studies, with political scientist Paul Robinson of the U of O’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0IlAdOAY-s
In my latest National Post commentary, I say the West must be firm with North Korea.
Very interesting Washington Post piece about the security of the Internet and the "Internet of things" largely based on Linux, given the eccentricities of Linux' founder and the incentives that don't operate when people are giving stuff away rather than selling it. Read that alongside Ted Koppel's piece (in Thursday's National Post among other places) about the vulnerability of America's power infrastructure (and ours, I assure you) and you might well conclude with Woody that "This is the perfect time to panic."
But don't worry if you miss it. You'll get another chance.
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.
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.
Following the Islamist terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine, people are standing in solidarity with the right of satirists to mock Islam, Mohammed and anything else they want. In France and elsewhere. #JesuisCharlie is trending and I’m glad. Now show the cartoons. Click here to read the rest.
Just about the last ditch for people who deny the West is under siege by radical Islam is feeble pleading in the alternative: Jihadis are not attacking us, but if they are we started it. American foreign policy is provocative. Israel is provocative. We travel thousands of miles to drop bombs on them. No wonder they blow us up… not that they do, of course. But if they did, you know… just saying. Click here to read the rest.