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Sunday, May 31, 2009

HARPER TELLS CANADIAN JEWISH CONGRESS HE WILL LEGISLATE TO ALLOW SUITS IN CANADIAN COURTS BY VICTIMS OF TERROR: A DANGEROUS ANTI-DEMOCRATIC PROPOSAL

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL This is a dangerous, anti-democratic path to follow. What is a "victim...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS BLUBBERING ABOUT AMERICANS NO LONGER ADMIRING THE MOTHER OF PARLIAMENTS IN VIEW OF EXPENSES SCANDAL

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS IN THE TELEGRAPH I don't know what Christopher Hitchens is going on about, and I str...

A COLUMN ASSERTING THAT JESUS WOULDN'T VOTE FOR BRITAIN'S BNP

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MICHAEL NAZIR-ALI IN THE TELEGRAPH Jesus wouldn't have voted for Blair either. Or Bush. Or Sarkozy. Or a ...

A POLL SHOWING WHAT A QUARTER OF AMERICANS BELIEVE MEANS PRETTY CLOSE TO NOTHING

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES "In my last two paragraphs I mentioned a poll in the US indicating that a quart...

ON OBAMA'S BEING FIRM WITH ISRAEL OVER ITS SETTLEMENTS

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POSTED COMMENT TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL “Obama Firm.” Well, let's hope so. The only way we will ever see peace and an...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

ON THE NOTION OF CANADA'S MILITARY BEING INADEQUATE AND SOME GENERAL TRUTHS ABOUT THE NATURE OF MILITARIES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY FORMER GENERAL LEWIS MACKENZIE IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL "Our infantry ranks are so diminished tha...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

THE EFFORT TO REMOVE A CHILD FROM HATEFUL PARENTS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL This is a dangerous path the editorial would have us follow. I had experienc...

OBAMA AND GUANTANAMO AND THE OMAR KHADR CASE

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES "First of all, we need to know a lot more about each individual stil...
Monday, May 25, 2009

NETANYAHU'S VIOLENT NONSENSE ABOUT THE ROAD TO MIDDLE EAST PEACE BEING THROUGH TEHRAN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Netanyahu is one of the world's more dangerous leaders. He has no grasp ...
Friday, May 22, 2009

IS FOREIGN AID WORKING?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARTIN WOLF IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES This is a murky question, and necessarily so since foreign aid is a murky ...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

THE ROAD TO VICTORY IN AFGHANISTAN IS THROUGH PAKISTAN: VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA DEJA VU

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SERIES OF POSTED RESONSES TO A COLUMN BY JEFFREY SIMPSON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL "The road to Afghan victory runs through Pakis...

MORE FIREPOWER FOR AFGHANISTAN AND A NAZI-LIKE ASCETIC GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Plenty of firepower, oh boy! I guess the more than a hundred civilians murdered ...
Friday, May 15, 2009

THE RUBY DHALLA ABUSE OF CAREGIVERS BUSINESS

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POSTED SERIES OF RESPONSES TO TWO COLUMNS IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL It's time for Dhalla to step down. The caregivers' adv...

NETANYAHU AND THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION: SOME HARD TRUTHS

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POSTED SERIES OF RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Netanyahu isn't determined to go slowly, he is completely against...

CONSERVATIVE ATTACK ADS: A POX ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES

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POSTED SERIES OF RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN THE GLOBE AND MAIL Harper is indeed a goon, but even goons get it right sometimes. Ignatieff only ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

THE FOOLISH AMERICAN NOTION OF PROMOTING DEMOCRACY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JOSEPH NYE IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL "George W. Bush tarnished the idea of democracy promotion, bu...

THE CAMBRIDGE SPIES OF THE 1950s AND THE GOOD PURPOSE THEY MAY WELL HAVE SERVED

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES I don't know how you can rank people much of whose work remains secret to...

TEACHERS' UNIONS A BARRIER TO EDUCATION?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES Teachers' unions are a barrier to improving public education, not the ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

IGGYMANIA OR IGGYPHOBIA ?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY LYSIANE GAGNON IN THE TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL The only cases of Iggymania ever reliably reported were discover...

COMEDIENNE WANDA SYKES TELLS A FUNNY JOKE ABOUT RUSH LIMBAUGH AND UNBELIEVABLY PEOPLE RUSH TO HIS DEFENSE AND ATTACK HER

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES If Rush Limbaugh is a patriot, then there is no better demonstration of Dr. Johnson's famous ...
Sunday, May 10, 2009

NEWSPAPER JOURNALISTS WHO ATTACK THE INTERNET FOR ITS LACK OF AUTHORITY OR QUALITY ARE OFFERING BARELY DISGUISED PREJUDICES AND SPECIAL INTERESTS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY NIGEL FARNDALE IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH "The mountainous, steaming quantity of horsedung out there on the ...
Friday, May 08, 2009

OBAMA'S OPPORTUNITY TO APPOINT A SUPREME COURT JUDGE AND SOME OF THE GENERAL DIFFICULTIES IN SUCH APPOINTMENTS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES The real issue in selecting judges for America's Supreme Court is not ...

THE APPROACHING REVOLUTION IN VALUES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES "...genetic discrimination in hiring will be illegal, of course......
Thursday, May 07, 2009

RIGHTS CANNOT DISAPPEAR WHERE THEY NEVER EXISTED

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY RAMESH THAKUR IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Ramesh Thakur, this is intellectual rubbish. "The reality ...
Monday, May 04, 2009

IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY GOING UNDER?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES Perhaps readers may recall that Senator Specter worked on the Warren Commi...
Friday, May 01, 2009

SWINE FLU AND THE POOR JOB THE PRESS DOES REPORTING IT

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POSTED RESPONSE TO COLUMN BY ANDRE PICARD IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Thank you, Andre Picard, for some good sense. I have always though...

PARALLELS BETWEEN TRUDEAU AND IGNATIEFF BUT IGNATIEFF IS NO TRUDEAU

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL The parallels are few and shallow; the differences are immense. Trudeau was a re...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

IGNATIEFF AND HIS PURPOSE IN RETURNING TO CANADA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY WILLIAM JOHNSON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL "How do we make this place worthy of our dreams? How do ...

ON THE LEGALITY OF BUSH'S TORTURE TECHNIQUES

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES Sorry, but this does sound a bit like scholastics arguing over the number ...
Friday, April 24, 2009

THE TWISTED USE OF AHMADINEJAD AS PREPARATION FOR ISRAEL'S ATTACKING IRAN AND THROWING THE WORLD INTO CHAOS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARCUS GEE IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Marcus Gee asserts in this column what is not proven and likely ca...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

ON PROSECUTING THOSE AMERICANS WHO TORTURED AND MADE IT POSSIBLE TO TORTURE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINCIAL TIMES The fear of prosecution is the only effective tool we have to prevent repeti...

ON THE SENSIBLE NOTION OF TREATING TERROR AS ORDINARY CRIME

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES Treating terror as ordinary crime has always been the view of reasonable p...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

ON OBAMA'S RELEASE OF BUSH TORTURE PAPERS AND HIS REFUSAL TO SEE CIA TORTURERS CHARGED AS THEY SHOULD BE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CON COUGHLIN THE TELEGRAPH What is security, Mr.Coughlin? Is it the security of a healthy, free society or is...

THE ABSURD NOTION OF MICHAEL IGNATIEFF AS "A TRUE PATRIOT SON"

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY MICHAEL VALPY IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Ignatieff is as much a patriot as he is a defender of human ri...

BELIEF THAT THE EARTH WAS FLAT: THE OLDEST NONSENSE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS

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RESPONSE TO A POSTED COMMENT IN THE INDEPENDENT Belief that the earth was flat? Sorry, no educated person believed that in Henry VIII's ...

HENRY VIII AND THE THEORY THAT HIS WOUNDS CAUSED HIS TYRANT BEHAVIOR

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE INDEPENDENT It has been a theory for a very long time advanced by some biographers that Henry's leg w...

AN OBAMA DOCTRINE?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES The world, thank you very much, will do quite well without an "Obama ...

THE UPCOMING PULITZER PRIZES AND THE GENERAL FOOLISHNESS OF PRIZES

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES Prizes generally are foolish business. Even the most prestigious - the Nobel - often...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

IT IS ALMOST MEANINGLESS TO APPLY THE WESTERN LANGUAGE OF RIGHTS TO MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD INCLUDING AFGHANISTAN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL This is a silly leather-armchair-by-the-window editorial. You are imposing c...