Sat Sep 30, 2006 – 9:19 pm
Background. So what of Dryden, Brison, Volpe, and Hall Findlay?
It should first be said that all the hype surrounding the membership recruitment skills of Volpe and “Jimmy the K” were just that: hype. And a ladle-full of manipulative pablum fed to a willing mainstream media that, I suspect, will not be acknowledging this fact […]
Sat Sep 30, 2006 – 6:49 pm
Kevin Michael Grace, one of Canada’s best writers and its pre-eminent paleo-conservative, delivers the smack-down.
And as I flip through the dreary columnist pages of the national daily I get, I observe that Grace still doesn’t have a column in a Canadian national newspaper. This sort of sloppiness instead is passed off in the NP […]
Fri Sep 29, 2006 – 9:21 am
Its Education Week at NRO (National Review Online), and this piece, by Jeffrey Hart, is my all-time favorite education piece. Here’s a sample. Remember the year 1988. I don’t think its better now:
Yet there does come that moment.
It came for me in the freshman composition course. The students were required to write essays based upon […]
Fri Sep 29, 2006 – 7:52 am
The Globe and Mail reports the parliamentary debate on same-sex marriage has been delayed until the end of the fall sitting. No word on why.
H/t: iMAPP.org.
Thu Sep 28, 2006 – 3:35 pm
According to the man who worked as Iranian Pres. Ahmadinejad’s translator for his recent New York trip, the prez wanted to meet with Michael Moore. Sadly, efforts to contact the filmmaker were unsuccessful. One can pretty much predict how their conversation would’ve gone. Probably something like this.
H/t: Hot Air
Thu Sep 28, 2006 – 1:49 pm
George Freeman reports:
“The funny thing about her is that she’s so uncultured and dense. Many powerful women have burned through marriages and taken numerous lovers, but broads like Katherine Hepburn or Princess Margaret had enough dignity to be discreet and became icons for their large personalities.
Large personality is not what comes to mind when […]
Thu Sep 28, 2006 – 9:58 am
Lucien Bouchard has been gone from politics for a decade, and longer still from the federal scene. But his political ghost was seen hovering over the head of Michael Ignatieff yesterday.
Thu Sep 28, 2006 – 8:44 am
Billy Joe Bob questioned my optimism/pessimism that Bob Rae’s tenure as Ontario premier, and his Chretienista supporters, would make him unelectable in Ontario and Quebec.
The NP interviews numerous people in Ontario who think, at the very least, Rae has a very large hill to climb to overcome memories of his tenure. The biggest challenge […]
Thu Sep 28, 2006 – 8:34 am
The Claremont Review of Books reviews The Suit by the pseudonymous Nicholas Antongiavanni. The book is patterned after Machiavelli’s Prince, down to the number of chapters.
Here’s a snippet of the review:
Just as Machiavelli boldly set forth the qualities a prince needed to obtain and maintain power, Antongiavanni recommends “dandification” as the virtù required at […]
Thu Sep 28, 2006 – 6:24 am
The US State Department has released its annual International Religious Freedom Report. You can find information on every country in the world. Readers of ThePolitic.com will be familiar with much of the information on Canada. This, however, was news to me:
A number of mosques were vandalized, including several mosques in the Montreal […]
