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- Manipulating the Climate Numbers - February 3, 2010
- Yesterday was Candlemas, and therefore also Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-prognosticating groundhog of Gobbler's Knob, predicted six more weeks of...
- A Court Victory for the People - January 30, 2010
- We take it for granted up here in Canada that our political class should tell us how to spend our own money in election campaigns. Perhaps not everywhere in Canada: they...
- Ruled by Legalistic Minds - January 11, 2010
- First, let's kill all the lawyers. I hasten to specify, this is a quote. And to add that some of my best friends are lawyers. And moreover, even after exempting them...
- Courage to Say What Everyone Knows - January 7, 2010
- According to an item that appeared yesterday on the BBC website, giving up smoking may sharply increase the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. The connection between...
- What Copenhagen Exposed - December 20, 2009
- The farce in Copenhagen continues. As I have intimated before, I am not without hope for this "earth summit." I see more and more evidence that people -- "electorates"...
- The Myth of Global Warming - December 14, 2009
- A good question for today would be whether a fraud on the scale of the one being consummated at the Copenhagen "Earth summit" has even been attempted before in human...
- The Worst Possible Afghan Policy - December 6, 2009
- President Barack Obama announced this week, in his latest glamour speech -- this one choreographed among cadets at West Point -- the substance of the new U.S. "Afghan...
- The Skeptics Are Vindicated - November 25, 2009
- A computer hacker in England has done the world a service by making available a huge quantity of evidence for the way in which "human-induced global warming" claims have...
- Fort Hood: Let's Drop the Political Correctness - November 9, 2009
- For a person with old-fashioned values, and an old-fashioned sense of English word meanings, the reports of the Fort Hood massacre were almost as provoking as what...
- We Need a Real Strategy for Afghanistan - November 6, 2009
- Matthew Hoh, a U.S. foreign service officer, resigned recently from his commission in Afghanistan's Zabul province, writing a letter in which he expressed doubts, not...
- Presidential Decision Making - October 30, 2009
- The extreme delay in getting decisions out of Washington that were urgent many months ago, on how to proceed in Afghanistan, was made sickly comic on Monday when...
- The Latest Anti-Israel Stunt - October 21, 2009
- The significance of Israel to the west is out of all proportion to her size and in direct relation to her place, on the front line. The country is unambiguously western,...
- Obama's Political 'Balancing Act' - October 7, 2009
- The American and British top commanders have recently grumbled, or more than grumbled, about indifferent political responses to their requests for more feet and...
- Is Obama Like Gorbachev? - October 3, 2009
- There is nothing new under the sun: and I mean, nothing. It is a point brought home to us with increasing force by the expansion of the Internet. Conceive of an...
- Madmen at the Gates - September 27, 2009
- The advice, "Don't worry about him, he's just crazy," may be sound, provided that the reference is to a man who is in fact neither crazy, nor armed. This thought...
- US Gets Nothing in Return for Missile Decision - September 20, 2009
- What will Russia offer the U.S. in return for the Obama administration's decision to cancel the U.S. missile defence shield installations in the Czech Republic and...
- The Arrogance of Rewriting the Rules - September 13, 2009
- Those who have played hockey will appreciate the need to keep an eye on the puck. And those who watch hockey through television are compelled by the cameras to fixate...
- The Gathering Storm - September 13, 2009
- Today is the eighth anniversary of the day after 9/11. This newspaper being an artifact of modern printing, I am of course filing this column on the anniversary of the...
- Political Correctness in Canada--Or Else - September 8, 2009
- It is hard to say whether the decision announced Wednesday by Athanasios Hadjis, the quasi-judge of the Canadian "Human Rights" Tribunal, is a victory for free speech in...
- Kennedy: A Great Man with a Detestable Side - September 3, 2009
- Several readers actually complained when I did not write about the late Edward Kennedy on the weekend. "In a week when one of the most important politicians of our time...
- Sophistications - August 30, 2009
- It is insulting to be told an obvious lie; more insulting when the lie is insisted upon, in the face of undeniable facts. Unfortunately, few of our contemporary...
- Palin Called a Spade a Spade - August 17, 2009
- Just three weeks ago, I was writing in the Ottawa Citizen against niceness. I have pursued the theme recently with praise (sometimes backhanded) not only for the...
- A War Between Two World Views - July 17, 2009
- Sarah Palin celebrated Bastille Day Tuesday with an op-ed against "cap and trade" in the Washington Post. Bless the editors of that newspaper for permitting it....
- What Sarah Palin Represents - July 9, 2009
- One of the charms of print journalism is that columns must be filed in advance of publication. This affords the reader an opportunity to judge how well they have stood...
- The New America - July 5, 2009
- The Dow has been tanking again, and new figures show the U.S. economy shedding jobs at an accelerating rate. One might criticize the U.S. government for the first...
- Dialogue with Iran's Monstrous Rulers? - June 21, 2009
- Everything is on the line in Iran, at present -- not only the future of the Iranian regime, but also of the Middle East, and by extension, the most tangible western...
- Who Will Make the Case for America? - June 7, 2009
- When a politician announces, at the beginning of a major speech, that he is going to be entirely honest with you, you should stop trying to protect your wallet. For it...
- What We Fight For - June 4, 2009
- We have two important anniversaries this week: tomorrow is the 20th of the massacre in Tiananmen Square. Saturday will be the 65th of D-Day. Both events retain...
- Impressively Scary - May 31, 2009
- It must be good for any President of the United States, or other freshly-minted leader, to be free of his "first 100 days." For this is the period through which he faces...
- Innocents Abroad - April 12, 2009
- Special envoys were meanwhile in Pakistan to evince deep concern about the trajectory of events there. They were told that Pakistan would not cooperate with the latest...
- Truth and Consequences - April 10, 2009
- "Barack Obama seems determined to repeat every disastrous mistake of the 1930s, at home and abroad. He has already repeated Herbert Hoover's policy of raising taxes on...
- Too Clever by Half - March 21, 2009
- What the polls can't say directly, and thus perhaps the White House can't yet hear, is that the policies themselves are diminishing Mr. Obama's appeal. There are...
- Back to Carter - February 22, 2009
- That he may well be as good as his word, on the "green" issues among others, is an appalling thought, given the present economic fragility.The series of gestures on...
- The Doctrine of Darwin - February 12, 2009
- Unlike most of the celebrated figures in the history of science, Darwin was not a fox. He was a hedgehog. I refer to the ancient epigram of Archilochus, famously...
- Guantanamo - January 25, 2009
- Guantanamo was selected, by the Bush administration, to intern terrorists, because no better solution could be found. The military commissions were created, ditto. Under...
- Carbonations - January 23, 2009
- Both Barack Obama in the U.S., and Stephen Harper up here, are on the cusp of announcing ambitious new "climate" plans founded upon last decade's laughably "settled...
- Exit Bush - January 21, 2009
- Still vaguely remember: the attitudes among such of my elders as did not like or trust him, in the moments immediately before the Great Man took power, and the...
- Gaza & Hamas - January 5, 2009
- What has happened in Gaza is horrible. It is not even necessary to look at the sentimentalized atrocity pictures, which are the specialty of Gaza's freelance...
- Political Lives - October 30, 2008
- I'd rather retract that sentence for a different reason: it did not make my point well enough. My point -- and it is one worth frequent repetition when discussing...
- On Education - October 28, 2008
- Now, paradoxically, the dream of going to Oxford -- specifically, to Magdalen College, to study classics and philosophy -- had been among my more vivid ambitions in...