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Pat Condell is featured in a YouTube rant over at Small Dead Animals. In it, he waxes positively Steynsian in disrespecting radical Islam, then shakes himself out of it, and reverts to some banal A.C. Grayling bromides. Grayling, whose written an excellent history of philosophical logic, regularly waxes […]
Thanks for the inspiration, Lord Kitchener.
Our friend cited an example (courtesy of Woman at Mile 0) of the Globe and Mail spinning a recent poll in the Conservatives’ favour. I decided to take a boo and see if this sign of the apocalypse might actually have come to pass.
At first glance, it does appear […]
Whew.
The summer’s almost over, and man am I getting fatigued politically.
I scan through National Newswatch, and all I see is “Harper no good, Harper mired in medicority, Harper in trouble, Afghanistan, Newfoundland, Opinion Polls”. What is it about the media that none of these things ever get turned around? I don’t expect the […]
More silliness relating to Muslim fundamentalists and cartoons. This time newspapers are opting out even before anyone have a chance to get offended:
The Washington Post and several other newspapers around the country did not run Sunday’s installment of Berkeley Breathed’s “Opus,” in which the spiritual fad-seeking character Lola Granola appears in a headscarf and explains […]
In an effort to expand ThePolitic’s scope and coverage of Canadian and world politics, we are looking for more writers to contribute to the following topics/areas:
* Canadian Politics (National and Provincial)
* US Politics
* Middle Eastern / Israeli Politics
We are particularly interested in attracting […]
Fascinating interview on the Dennis Prager Radio Show with the author of “The Suicide of Reason,” Lee Harris.
Harris, a self-described “gay man” who dedicates his recent book to his “partner of twenty years,” tells how the orgins of Islam, be it the origins of an inner-worldly political community, were and are, out of necessity, violent. […]
By the end of this masterpiece from Theodore Dalrymple, it’s hard to get the image of Tony Blair lying bruised and bloodied in a ditch somewhere out of your head.
Soon after Blair took office, however, a billionaire named Bernie Ecclestone offered the Labour Party a $2 million donation if the government exempted Formula 1 motor […]
The Age of YouTube will not be a comfortable one for established authority:
* Quebec provincial police admitted Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que.
This next bit is not credible, however:
However, the police force denied allegations its undercover officers were there on Monday to […]
Speaking to the Veteran’s of Foreign Wars National Convention, George Bush ushered up some powerful examples from history to explain why America should not lose sight of victory in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a break with past avoidance of any comparison to Vietnam, President Bush takes it square on:
Three decades later, there is […]
Victor Davis Hansen has written a succinct piece on what’s wrong with America’s education system; much the same criticism can be legitimately raised here in Canada.
the bleak statistics — whether a 70-percent high-school graduation rate as measured in a study a few years ago by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, or poor math […]
