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Sunday, July 26, 2009

HITLER AND WINTER AND THE INVASION OF RUSSIA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A BOOK REVIEW IN THE TELEGRAPH Hitler suffered several setbacks to his invasion, including the Greek situation. These wer...

ISRAEL AND MIDEST PEACE AND IRAN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE TIMES Israel has always been the main obstacle to a fair peace, and the reason for that is its desire to ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

ART AND SUBSIDY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY GILL HORNBY IN THE TELEGRAPH "The best books and songs and poems and plays do not get written, nor works...
Monday, July 20, 2009

REACH FOR THE STARS? APOLLO 11 NONSENSE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY SUMITRA ROJAGOPALAN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Reach for the stars? What does that mean? This piece is a...

WIND POWER LUNACY INDEED

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMNBY CHRISTOPHER BOOKER IN THE TELEGRAPH The author makes some very good points. Here's another very important ...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

IS IT OKAY FOR AMERICA TO MURDER ITS ENEMIES? A DAMNABLE QUESTION TO ASK IN A FREE SOCIETY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY GORDON GIBSON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Sorry, Mr. Gibson, there is no moral debate here. I find it stu...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

NEW YORK TIMES' ASSERTION THAT CIA HAD ASSASSINATION PLAN AGAINST AL QAEDA BUT DID NOT IMPLEMENT IT

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. We know perfectly well that America ...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

AMERICA’S STRANGE POLITICAL CULTURE OF GRIEF AND DYING

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Note to readers: this was written some years ago, but somehow I missed it when posting older pieces. AMERICA’S STRANGE POLITICAL CULTURE OF ...
Monday, July 06, 2009

THE DEATH OF ROBERT MCNAMARA

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES McNamara may be the greatest modern example of the banality of evil. He was, ...
Sunday, July 05, 2009

THE LIKELY TRUTH BEHIND PALIN'S RESIGNATION AS GOVERNOR

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL The latest word is that Palin resigned so abruptly owing to a new, yet-undisclos...

THE IDEA THAT PALIN'S QUITTING AS GOVERNOR IS A POLITICAL PLOY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL “If I had to bet right now, I think we just saw the opening statement of the 201...
Thursday, July 02, 2009

LAWRENCE MARTIN ON THE BIZARRE NOTION WE SHOULD CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY BECAUSE THERE IS A CANADIAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE

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POSTED COMMENT TO A COLUMN BY LAWRENCE MARTIN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Lawrence Martin, this piece is a little pathetic. I like Obama...

ONTARIO CONSERVATIVE HUDAK'S VERSION OF SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER

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POSTED COMMENT TO A COLUMN BY MARGARET WENTE IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Hudak blubbering about Mike Harris sounds like the Ontario poli...

MORE HOT AIR ON THE WORKINGS OF PARLIAMENT FROM PRESTON MANNING

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POSTED COMMENT TO A COLUMN BY PRESTON MANNING IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Preston Manning is personally responsible for bringing up Harp...

THE GOVERNOR OF BIBLE-BELT SOUTH CAROLINA AND HIS GLANDS

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POSTED COMMENT TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL This is just standard stuff in the Bible Belt. Tiresome, really tiresome. This id...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

AHMADINEJAD WON INDEED AND THE REAL SOURCE OF INTERFERENCE IN IRAN’S ELECTION IS LIKELY THE UNITED STATES

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June 27, 2009 AHMADINEJAD WON INDEED AND THE REAL SOURCE OF INTERFERENCE IN IRAN’S ELECTION IS LIKELY THE UNITED STATES John Chuckman A rece...

THE FANTASY OF FIXING WHAT IS WRONG IN EDUCATION BEFORE IMPLEMENTING ONTARIO'S DAY CARE-KINDERGARTEN PROPOSAL

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY ANNE KOTHAWALA IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Government pretty much is incapable of correcting the serious ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

SLEAZY SARKOZY TELLS PEOPLE HOW THEY SHOULD DRESS - WITH HIS EMPHASIS ON ONE GROUP HE DISPLAYS CLEAR ANTI-MUSLIM PREJUDICE

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL What right does the president of a country have telling people how to dress? Or ...

THE END OF KODACHROME

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL I too loved Kodachrome. My picture library includes about 4,000 images on Kodach...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

IGNATIEFF'S MISSING THREE DECADES NOT EVEN THE GREATEST THING HE IS MISSING

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY REX MURPHY IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Three decades in Canada is only part of what Ignatieff is missing...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

NETANYAHU HAS SOFTENED HIS STANCE ON TWO STATES? I DON'T THINK SO

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH "Softens his stance" is inaccurate. Obama has backed Netanyahu into something o...

ONTARIO'S PROPOSED SYSTEM OF COMBINING DAY CARE WITH KINDERGARDEN IN SCHOOLS

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POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL This is a great idea, but it won't happen. First, for now, Dalton the Magni...
Monday, June 15, 2009

ON OBAMA'S NEED TO LEVEL WITH AMERICANS ABOUT THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JEFFREY SIMPSON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Jeffrey Simpson, This is one fine piece of writing. You have ...
Friday, June 12, 2009

HATE SPEECH

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JENNIFER LYNCH IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL The very concept of hate speech is a dangerous one, smacking o...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

CONSERVATIVE MINISTER LISA RAITT'S ABSURD APOLOGY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY LAWRENCE MARTIN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL It was an unpleasant melodrama. It is simply idiotic to appea...

A SILLY COLUMN ATTRIBUTING AFRICA'S PROBLEMS IN GETTING INVESTMENT TO NONSENSE ABOUT THE DARK CONTINENT

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY INNOCENT MADAWO IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL First, Moyo is right, aid almost never helps. There are many ...

AN INAPPROPRIATE DEFENSE OF SARAH KRAMER AT ONTARIO'S E-HEALTH

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARCUS GEE IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL There is no defense for this woman who abused her responsibilities...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

WHO SAYS "GOD" MORE BUSH OR OBAMA?

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES Bush did say God told him to do several things. John O'Farrell should do ...

THE CASE OF CONSERVATIVE MINISTER RAITT'S EMBARRASSING RECORDED CONVERSATIONS

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Sorry, Ms. Blatchford, I don't think you can convinci...

THE HORRIBLE CASE OF MR. ABDELRAZIK LEFT STRANDED ABROAD AND TIME TO BRING HIM HOME

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY IRVING COTLER AND DAVID GROSSMAN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL The real story behind the government's d...

OBAMA'S CAIRO SPEECH AND THE REALITIES OF ACHIEVING A FAIR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES Obama’s speech was an extraordinarily sensitive one. Americans and others ...
Monday, June 08, 2009

THE PALIN PARADOX? THE IDEA THAT AMERICAN ELECTORAL DISTRICTS WITH MORE MEN ELECT WOMEN

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES Could be, but I believe there is another explanation. Alaska is a place heavi...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009

HITLER MAD? THAT'S THE EASY WAY OUT

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY DANIEL FINKELSTEIN IN THE TIMES "Mad. But so too was Hitler" Authoritative psychiatric studies of Hitler t...

GAY MARRIAGE AND DICK CHENEY?

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RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES I think we all recall what Cheney means when he says something along the lines of "people ou...

EGYPT AND AUTHORITARIANISM AND OBAMA AND INSTITIONALIZED HYPOCRISY

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POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY IRSHAD MANJI IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL Irshad Manji, A very good piece, except for the unrealistic last...
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...