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Weekly Archive: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005



July 23, 2005

A new weapon to fight Al Qaeda
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This might be one of the best ideas I've seen in a long time: Allah Made Me Funny The Official Muslim Comedy Tour They'll be in Toronto on August 13. Check out the full list of tour dates. What do...


I'm glad for the Iraqis, but...
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Good news for the Iraqis. Hopefully when they're done, they can come to Canada and help us with our Charter of Rights, which lacks even the most basic property rights. Lucky for them Canadians aren't helping them with their bill of rights.


Mike Duffy is shocked. Then he should do something about it.
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CTV political reporter Mike Duffy shares this anecdote:But Duffy admits a Liberal bias at some media outlets makes it difficult for Harper and the Conservatives to get their message out. “I’ve just been speaking to a couple of young journalists...



July 22, 2005

The fatuous fatwa -- An update? Or maybe not
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Apparently, the learned Canadian imams who denounced terrorism are calling for the faithful to help the authorities. But its still not in the fatwa....


Church and State -- Checkpoint [Updated]
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This is a summary of my thoughts on the issue of the relationship between Church and State in Canada. There have been a disquieting number of incidents recently in which people in the public eye have called for a radical...


Reality Check for Reporters
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From Wonkitties:I am not a fan of journalists being roughed up, least of all simply because they have asked a very good question. Mitchell's question was perfect. However, I am Canadian, and I don't get why this is such a...


Afrocentrism in Ontario
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The call for Afrocentric teaching has been heard and is being implemented in Nova Scotia. The same call was made in Ontario this past February....



July 21, 2005

Afrocentrism in Nova Scotia -- Consequences
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In my piece about the implementation of an Afrocentric curriculum in Nova Scotia in an attempt to improve the academic performance of black students, unreported in the main stream media, I focused on the immediate concerns, and in particular, the...


A fatuous fatwa [updated]
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Canadian Muslim leaders issued a fatwa in late July that denounced violence, etc, etc, but forgot to mention one important point -- a Muslim who has knowledge of an attack must help secular authorities. Major omission, that is.



July 20, 2005

Then you will know the truth...
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In Nova Scotia, millions are being spent on a program to improve academic performance for black students. What no one seems to have noticed is that it is a Afrocentric program, with all that entails.


C-407 -- The severely flawed "Die with Dignity" bill
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I don't support the notion of assisted suicide, but even so I can recognize a well constructed assisted suicide law from a bad one guaranteed to make a bad idea even worse. Canada's C-407 is definitely a bad one.


CBC issues call for the Church to be subservient to the State
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Regalism continues its march in Canada. In the latest, the government-funded broadcaster has issued a call for the Church to become a function of the State, complete with State-sanctioned dogma.


Canada: Totalitarian Theocracy of Political Correctness
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There is nothing "free" about speech in Canada. If you say something that annoys the wrong person, even if it was not aimed at him directly, but merely conflicts with his point of view, there will be a price to...


News from Iraq -- 75,000 fewer civilian killed than previously "estimated"
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A new study estimates 25,000 civilian deaths in Iraq since the invasion, a far lower number than the 100,000 deaths estimated last year in a Lancet study. That estimate, considered suspicious almost as soon as it was released, has been...



July 19, 2005

"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."
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Canadian General Rick Hillier, Chief of the Defence Staff, was quoted as saying the following:"We are not the Public Service of Canada," he declared. "We are not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces and our job is to...


Is something up on the topic of judicial appointments?
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Over the course of the day I've noted several hits from cbc.ca to posts of mine dealing with judicial appointments. Some came from Google searches, suggesting someone is doing some research. If you recall, during the Gomery Inquiry, it was...


Irwin Cotler pleads for "reasonable accommodation"
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Poetic justice......


From Women Priests to the United Nations as supreme arbiter of morality
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An odd journey for me through the labrythine world of moral relativism....



July 18, 2005

"King of Bombs" by Sheldon Filger
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I haven't read "King of Bombs", but the premise is chilling:It is the ultimate nightmare scenario for intelligence agencies engaged in the war on terrorism: an alliance, based on shared enemies, between Iran, North Korea and the Al-Qaeda terrorist...


So only ugly people go to prison?
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This is an argument sure not to go over well with a jury, twelve probably average looking people:A teacher [Debra Lafave] will claim she was insane due to emotional stress and did not know right from wrong when she had...


Ebonics: The plan doomed to fail
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Won't this only work if they teach Ebonics to me and you and everyone else who might have to hire these kids? Right now, I'm hiring English-speakers only, because, you know, I speak English.


Adoptees as tokens for gay affirmative action
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And you thought same-sex marriage was divisive?...


Congratulations to Dr. Dawg
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My blog has had the benefit of having been read by Dr. Dawg, and his comments to my posts are always appreciated. Though Dr. Dawg is of a different political persuasion than myself, I was pleased to see he was...


Harry Potter: Magic and ignorance
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With the release of the next in the Harry Potter series, I thought I'd take a break from politics and media for a bit of philosophizing about magic and knowledge and faith, and the interplay between those concepts, as I...