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Coren's a strange mixed bag when it comes to both his ideology and his theology. He's a Brit ex-pat with a nominally Catholic mother and a Jewish (non-practicing?) former taxi driver father. He's famous for picking up causes, wringing all of the personal publicity out of them he can, and then seldom or never mentioning them again.

For years, he was a very vocal "born again" evangelical, fundamentalist Protestant - while seldom missing any chance to mention his Jewish roots. Apparently, about 6 months ago, he accepted Confirmation - back into or maybe missed out on same as a kid? - into The Roman Catholic Faith. (go figure and for how long?)

In fairness, he has always been consistently pro-life and largely pro-American. However, on other social policy and economic issues he's constantly all over the map but far too often way out in left field.
At one point this week, he was ever lauding NDP Leader and all round slimeball Jack Layton as a man of principle and great integrity !!!

IMHO, even when Coren's right, he's a still dangerous loose canon and a contradictory self-promoting blowhard.
In fact, he's not all that much unlike Bill O'Reilly - LOL!

I think you got him nailed about right, GMMAC. One thing about him is that if you send him an email, he almost always responds. He told me a few weeks ago that he responds to about 50 to 100 a day on average. I found this out because I have sent him several over the years - sometimes to congratulate him on a column and other times to challenge him on an issue (as was the case a few weeks ago). My view of him changed for the negative after the last round of email discussion with him - I had challenged him on a 'homosexual comment' that he had made to a caller on one of his evening radio talk shows. He gave me what I considered to be an awful response and even after I asked for clarification, it was clear that he is only an ally on some very selective issues.

The sad reality is that he gets considered to be slightly right of centre simply because the company that is further to the right is very thin indeed. I wish there were more decent Canadian radio/tv political commentators but we are so bereft. Who do you end up listening to? Got any decent suggestions?