Sunday, May 7, 2006
What's happening to the melting pot?
As the Mexican invasion continues virtually unabated, as hundreds of thousands of the invaders march in the streets of America's cities, waving the Mexican flag and proclaiming their ‘right’ to settle in the United States, Congress dithers and debates, and there’s no solution in sight. Aligned...
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Monday, April 24, 2006
Thinking about Zacarias Moussaoui's case,
I wonder how many people have noticed the deep irony that permeates his ‘sentencing trial’. Having been convicted of being an accessory to murder by withholding information that might have saved the lives of thousands, he is now availing himself of all possible means the legal system he despises and...
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Sunday, April 2, 2006
A Teacher's Lament
I recently received a piece by a friend of mine who knows the writer, a teacher in Montreal. I know there are teachers among us (kingmi, for example), and I thought it might be instructive. I wonder if what this teacher has to say is endemic to our schools, both in Canada and the US, or wether her...
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Illegal Immigration? What Illegal Immigration...
When I read this morning about new demonstrations in New York in favor of illegal immigrants, I came to a decision. The decision I arrived at was partly prompted by the protests themselves, and partly by the way in which they were reported, in this case on CNN, one of the stalwarts of American...
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Friday, March 31, 2006
The Mexican Border Problem: Short-Term Gain (?) for Long-Term Pain?
Canada, like the United States, is a country of immigrants. Canada began its existence as a country later than the States, in 1867, and was characterized by the presence of two rather different cultural strains, the Anglo-Saxon and the French. Because of the concentration of French settlers in...
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Thursday, March 23, 2006
Absolutely shocking...
I came across a news item today which floored me. Here it is: according to CNN, “Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said Wednesday.” This is happening in the Land Of The Free??? And in...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Will Abdul Rahman be impaled?
The notion that we are confronted with a clash of cultures between a relatively secularized West and an increasingly militant Islam is one that is difficult for many people to accept. It offends their fine liberal sensibilities that there should be such fundamental divides in this world. Some,...
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Does Ahmadinejad have a Goebbels?
So now Mr. Ahmadinejad, the more or less self-appointed spokesman for Islamo-Fascism, is threatening the US with ‘pain’ if, through America’s efforts, Iran is reported to the UN’s Security Council for Iran's intransigence over its drive towards nuclear weapons. A couple of questions arise. First,...
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Saturday, March 4, 2006
I hate to sound pessimistic, but...
I have to point out that the debate in the mainstream media about Iran’s nuclear weapons program, aside from lacking the urgency it deserves, has completely neglected one important aspect: in order to further his political aims, among whom is the destruction of Israel, Ahmadinejad does not need a...
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Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose...
In a recent article that appeared in The Weekly Standard, Joseph Loconte draws interesting parallels between certain 20 th century events and some others looming in the 21 st. Loconte, whose most recent book is The End of Illusions: Religious Leaders Confront Hitler's Gathering Storm (Rowman &...
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