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A friend of 42 years his taken a different ideological path that I. Both of us being political wonks, we quite often exchange e-mails about the daily developments in the, all to real, metaphorical chess game between our founding fathers liberty and Social Fascism. Probing into the mind of a socialist who has returned time and again to the Kool-Aid fountain can turn up some interesting tidbits. Today I received this. Diary Entry of A Conservative... This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by socialist electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department...

Al Gore's Vulcan Utopia David Brooks, National Post, page A21 Published: Thursday, May 31, 2007 If you're going to read Al Gore's book, you're going to have to steel yourself for a parade of sentences like the following: "The remedy for what ails our democracy is not simply better education (as important as that is) or civic education (as important as that can be), but the re-establishment of a genuine democratic discourse in which individuals can participate in a meaningful way - a conversation of democracy in which meritorious ideas and opinions from individuals do, in fact, evoke a...

Send in the assmonkeys Behold the latest environmentalist fad: going childless Jonathan Kay, National Post Published: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Last Tuesday, I wrote a column for this space entitled "At a restaurant near you, the war between Daters and Breeders." It was one of those airy, self-indulgent pieces of cultural commentary that otherwise self-important op-ed pundits publish every few months to "show their human side." (See: I eat in restaurants with my kids --just like you!) My basic point was that restaurant diners shouldn't go hard on parents whose kids emit the odd yelp at dinner time. I...

First, they came for the guns ? George Jonas, National Post Published: Saturday, April 28, 2007 Human beings live in worlds of their own making. This is true of individuals as well as nations -- even entire periods. I suppose a person couldn't help being born in the Dark Ages, but it was still people who created the Dark Ages and people who ended them. They weren't cosmic events. If we recreate the Dark Ages in the 21st century, it will be our own doing, too. Nobody is making us. None of our Evil Empires came from outer space....

'Pro-choice' shouldn't mean pro-censorship Jonathan Kay, National Post Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 It is a disgrace that Canada is the only civilized nation in the world without an abortion law. As far as our criminal code is concerned, there is no difference between aborting a weeks-old embryo and a viable, full-term fetus. This must change: Even most of those Canadians who self-identify as "pro-choice" recognize the moral distinction between a microscopic ball of cells and a fetus that's weeks away from breathing fresh air with its own lungs. How does this legal black hole persist? In part, it's...

It's gay rights laws that are intolerant, says Cardinal by STEVE DOUGHTY, The Daily Mail (UK) Last updated at 23:46pm on 28th March 2007 Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor accused Labour of "legislating for intolerance" in his most outspoken attack yet on the imposition of gay rights laws on church bodies. The leader of England and Wales's four million Roman Catholics also questioned "whether the threads holding together democracy have begun to unravel". The lecture delivered in Westminster made him the first Catholic leader in nearly 180 years to place a question mark over the allegiance of his church to the...

Suzuki: Mean and not so green By LICIA CORBELLA Calgary Sun Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Many years ago -- about 20 -- I was a green reporter (in every sense of the word) and was assigned to cover an event for my Vancouver newspaper in the Stein Valley of B.C.'s coast mountains. The gala in that pristine alpine meadow included performances by the likes of Long John Baldry and John Denver. Besides the incredible view, my most vivid memories were that Denver was kind and accessible, Baldry was as zany as you would expect; and David Suzuki was surprisingly...

Dealing with the new anti-Semitism Warren Kinsella in Ottawa, National Post Published: Thursday, February 08, 2007 In Chris Hedges' new book, American Fascists, there is a passage that recalls the challenge facing the hundreds of Jews gathered in frigid, frozen Ottawa this week. Quoting Italian medievalist Umberto Eco, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times writer observes that fascists have a continual need to "feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies." Anti-Semites insinuate that Jews are powerful out of proportion to their numbers, running Hollywood, the news media and successive U.S. administrations. Since 9/11 in particular,...

CONSERVATIVE TRUTH 01/29/07 PETA Kills Animals, Supports Terrorists By Tom BarrettPublisher@ConservativeTruth.org According to public records (see LINK below), PETA kills 90% of the animals left at their "Adoption Centers"; only 6% get adopted. From 1998 to the end of 2005 the organization killed 14,400 pets and wild animals in the center at its Virginia headquarters alone. By the way, PETA stands for "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals." It claims to be an "animal advocacy group." The photo accompanying this article on our website is from the website of No Kill Now (see LINK below), a group of former...

Give us freedom to speak our mindsI believe that homosexuality is not normal and not natural By MICHAEL COREN Toronto Sun January 27, 2007 I may be asking those of you who believe in freedom of speech and conscience to give me some financial support before long because what I am about to say is apparently illegal and not to be tolerated in Canada. I believe that homosexuality is not normal and not natural. I also believe that homosexuals should be treated with respect and protected against discrimination in areas such as employment and housing. I believe they should...

How I fell for PETA's gay ram scam Barbara Kay National Post Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Hell hath no fury like one journalist bamboozled by another. This journalist was furious when she learned that the Dec. 31 British Sunday Times article "Science told: Hands off Gay Sheep" -- upon whose "facts" she relied for last Wednesday's column, "When feminism and gay rights butt heads" -- was a farrago of misleading data mixed with statements cut from whole cloth. One looks out for this sort of deception when surfing Blogs and obscure news sites; but it is highly unusual to...

Those darned Christians From the way they're treated, you'd think they were a threat to the nation By Licia Corbella Calgary Sun December 17, 2006 This country is in danger. Most recently, that danger -- rooted at best in misplaced good intentions and at worst in either ignorance, hatred or intolerance -- was made evident by an Ontario judge. Last Thursday Ontario Court Justice Marion Cohen ordered a Christmas tree to be moved out of the lobby of the Ontario Court of Justice on Jarvis St. to an infrequently travelled corridor because it's a Christian symbol and might offend...

Campus thought police The Ottawa Citizen: Editorial Published: Thursday, November 30, 2006 The Carleton University Students Association is funded by a fee collected from every undergraduate. It seems logical to assume then that the support this body dispenses should be available to all students, or at least that is what one hopes. People from many different backgrounds come to study at a large university such as Carleton. They bring with them different views. This is good for the university and for the wider world these young people will someday engage. The essence of university life should be to encourage...

Hezbollah's Nazi roots Across the Middle East, radical Islamists yearn for a new Holocaust Islamic jihadis on parade. Photograph by: Suhaila Sahmarani, AFP, File Daniel Johnson, The New York Sun Published: Friday, August 04, 2006 This is the first Middle East war in which the main threat to Israel comes, not from secular Arab nationalism, but from Islamism. Both Hezbollah and Hamas draw their main inspiration, armaments and funding from Islamist sources, ranging from the Sunni ideologues of the Muslim Brotherhood to the Shiite demagogues of Iran. What unites them all is a fanatical dedication to the destruction of...

The writing is on the wall By MICHAEL COREN Toronto Sun July 8, 2006 More violence and fear and destruction in Israel and Palestine. There is now only one solution to the horror. Tear down the wall! Yes, tear down the wall of hatred and ignorance that has been built by Arab leaders and activists and that has necessitated the construction of the security barrier by Israel on the West Bank so as to protect its people. Tear down the wall. Such a security fence around Gaza, by the way, might have prevented the terrorism bleeding its way from...

Church anti-Semitic Jesus had something to say about such hypocrisy By Ezra Levant Calagary Sun Mon, July 3, 2006 I accuse a segment of the United Church of Canada of anti-Semitism. This is not an accusation to be made lightly. Last week, the UCC's Toronto Conference proposed an anti-Semitic resolution to be debated at the UCC's big convention next month. The resolution demonizes the Jewish state as the cause of the problems in the Middle East, and calls for the church not to buy or invest with Israeli Jews. No punishments are proposed for any Arab terrorist groups. The...

Another victim of PC orthodoxy Barbara Kay National Post Wednesday, October 26, 2005 After certain publicized remarks he made about women colleagues at a Toronto trade event a few weeks ago, legendary adman Neil French was forced to resign as worldwide creative director for WPP Group PLC, in which lofty role he oversaw industry giants such as Young and Rubicam. What was so offensive that nothing short of resignation could save his company's face? Did he say women were dumber than men? That they're less ethical? That they smell bad? No. The gist of his remarks was that few...