Monthly Archives: October 2006

John Kerry Insults the Troops, Again!

Oooops, Kerry shows his true colours…

President Bush disagrees and Michelle Malkin wades in with the REAL facts and commentary from US soldiers.

Abstinence - isn’t just for kids anymore!

The United States government is expanding its no sex before marriage program outside of its historical target group,
the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs, which include millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007.
The […]

Jim Dinning’s Halloween Costume

Jim Dinning’s campaign blog continues to impress:
We’re closing in on the final stretch and I can feel our team pulling ahead. It’s a great feeling!
Just pulling ahead, eh Jim? Is Dinning dressing up as an underdog for Halloween?

Stampede

The Weekly Standard’s cover this week made me laugh:

Islamism’s Nationalism and Family Values

Olivier Roy argues contemporary Islamist movements are more nationalistic than Westerners realize, and that they see Shari’a law as a matter of family law.

“An Alberta strong and free is the foundation of a Canada strong and free.”

The Calgary Herald has produced a major piece on PC leadership candidate Ted Morton. Check it out:
And it’s not the catered shrimp or pastry that’s brought them out on a wet night. They’re here to listen to a fair-haired academic whose media image is about as warm as a stack of textbooks on constitutional […]

Norman Spector on Belinda Stronach: “I think she’s a bitch.”

Sigh. Norm Spector to the rescue:
Brian Mulroney’s former chief of staff has called Belinda Stronach a “bitch.”
Speaking on a Vancouver radio station Monday afternoon, Norman Spector said “Bitch is a word I would use to describe someone like Belinda Stronach.”
At least MacKay’s comment had a semblance of wittiness to it.
Spector has chosen a […]

First-Time and Repeat Offenders

Theodore Dalrymple eloquently makes a crucial distinction between first-time and repeat offenders, a distinction that the crime-fighters in our current government should take careful note of:
Here it is worth drawing a distinction between the primary prevention of crime (preventing people from becoming criminals in the first place) and the secondary prevention of crime (preventing […]

Bring on the Defense of Religion Act

It looks like the Defense of Religion Act floated a few weeks ago is on the right side of public opinion, if not that of the CBC and the Liberal Party:
The COMPAS poll suggested there would be significant public support for such a move, with 72% of those contacted for the survey saying that […]

On the nightstand

Hitler’s Mufti
This unholy legacy of virulent anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish terrorism has been an enduring one: In the sixty years since the Holocaust, Hajj Amin al-Husseini has become the hero of the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization, the founding father of the radical Palestine National Movement, and the inspiration of two generations of radical Islamic leaders to […]