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Judith Shulevitz is a writer I admire, not least for her good timing, better than my own: She wrote a wonderful and highly praised book on the Sabbath (The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time) that came out 18 months before the book on...

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The Attack Against the Family

Earlier this year (1981), I was a witness in the trial of some fathers for having their children in a Christian School which refused to submit to state controls. Some of the fathers were prominent citizens of that county. The charges against them were...

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Piers Morgan: Now I see U.S. government tyranny

Is British CNN host Piers Morgan finally admitting gun advocates have a point when they say the Second Amendment is to protect citizens from tyrannical government? Morgan has made headlines for many months as he loudly trumpeted the cause of gun contro...

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DOJ on 'gays': 'Silence will be interpreted as disapproval'

Under President Obama, “justice” is anything but blind. Neither is it deaf. In fact, based on recent revelations, it appears to be watching your every move and listening to your every word. Still, if you happen to be a federal employee, now it’s even l...

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Is 'Fluoridegate' the new civil-rights scandal?

The next time you raise a glass of fluoridated city water to your mouth for a drink, think again. The water you are putting in your body to protect your teeth may be doing you more harm than good. The story of fluoridating water is one of most successf...

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Stephen Meyer's "The Return of the God Hypothesis"

A caller on Michael Medved's Science and Culture Update today challenged Discovery Institute's Stephen Meyer and Oxford mathematician John Lennox in a way that prompted an important distinction from Dr. Meyer. A theme of the program was the co...

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Even abortion industry insiders 'freaked out' by Gosnell

PHILADELPHIA – As the nation awaits a verdict in the abortion murder case against Kermit Gosnell, new revelations of his 40-year career continue to surface. And what they reveal about the abortion industry isn’t a pretty picture. Found in Gosnell’s bac...

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Sri Lankan newspaper publishes scathing editorial about Baird, Harper: “Baird is a buffoon”

| Blue Knight in World News

In recent weeks, the Harper government — and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird specifically — has launched a series of verbal salvos at the Sri Lankan government about its human rights record. At issue, is an upcoming Commonwealth summit scheduled to...

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Oliver Comes Out On Top in Clash With Fames Climate Catastrophist

Apr 30 2013 07:40 PM | Bluelikeme in Canadian News

Oliver comes out on top in clash with famed climate catastrophist

It takes a rare politician to stand up and take shots at a climate scientist who’s the darling of the global warmist movement. Even more uncommon is to see a politician take on such a climate scientist—and win the contest.

And so unfolded events last week when Joe Oliver, Canada’s natural resources minister, flew into Washington to build support for the Keystone XL pipeline. Before speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Mr. Oliver pointedly took aim at James Hansen, the former NASA scientist and one of the godfathers of climate catastrophism. Instead of a gooey marshmallow capitulation on the issue of climate change, Mr. Oliver questioned Mr. Hansen’s tendency to make claims that are at least exaggerations and often outright beyond-the-fringe.

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Agency withdraws casting call for CBC show that specified ‘any race except Caucasian’

Apr 30 2013 07:35 PM | Bluelikeme in Canadian News

The job posting on the casting website asked for someone of "any race except Caucasian" before it was changed.
A casting call to hire a new CBC host that specifically said white people need not apply has been withdrawn, with the casting agent offering apologies for the mistake.
The original ad for the host of a children’s show, posted on the casting agency’s website under a CBC logo and on Craigslist, said: “Please only submit [an audition tape] if you match the following criteria: Male between the ages of 23-35 years; Any race except Caucasian.”

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Bon appétit! Muslims go wild in 'demonic' ritual

| Blue Knight in World News

A former Muslim Brotherhood terrorist claims a bizarre video released out of Egypt demonstrates the “demonic” spirit that has gripped the nation since its 2011 Islamic revolution. The video shows a wedding celebration in which a group of men in a frenz...

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Our opposition to Bill 14 – a question of principle

MONTREAL - Quebecers, deeply attached to French, our common language, want to ensure that it continues to thrive in this corner of North America we have called home for some 400 years. A number of successive laws, leading up to the Charter of the Frenc...

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Applying the Lessons of One of Texas’s Most Infamous Shootings to Sandy Hook

On October 16, 1991, George Hennard drove his car through the front window of Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. He was there for one purpose, and stepping out of his vehicle, calmly and methodically opened fire on more than two score unarmed patrons...

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I agree with Laura, freeze Muslim immigration

Some things are just so “politically incorrect” you just can’t say them in polite company. Yet, that attitude can result in the destruction of a nation. Recently, radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham set off a firestorm of controversy and debate by stat...

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Montreal’s bilingual character should be cherished

MONTREAL - When I was 13 years old, I fell in love with the French language. One trip to Montreal and this American boy was smitten. As my passion for French grew, so did my yearning to become bilingual. At Yale University, I majored in French, and stu...

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Palestinian children’s art exhibit postponed after allegations of propaganda

FREDERICTON, NB — A Palestinian children’s art exhibit that was scheduled to open in Fredericton last week was postponed due to public pressure stemming from allegations that the work is propaganda and was done by adults. The exhibit, a Child’s View fr...

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Welcome Tamerlan Tsarnaev — But You’re Outta Here Elian Gonzalez!

Recently, the intelligence agency of a government our State Department classifies as “innocent” of sponsoring terror (Russia’s) warned the U.S. government to keep an eye on a potential immigrant terrorist. That individual was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the sla...

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Resources minister touting Keystone in U.S. slams climate scientist

Americans face a “stark choice” to keep importing heavy crude from unfriendly countries with far worse environmental records than Canada or opt for the controversial $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline to funnel Alberta’s oil sands crude to Gulf refin...

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A border-crossing fee is exactly what the U.S. and Canada do not need

Margaret Atwood once remarked that if the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. But is paranoia towards the United States justified? Not usually. Take a closer look at reports of a new bo...

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If all kids really belong to everyone …

“We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”– MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry. Much has been said about Melissa Harris-Perry’s c...

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Illusions About Why Muslim Brothers Kill

Despite the fervent wishes of the progressive media and the buffoonish David Sirota, who hoped the culprit was “a white guy,” the terrorists who bombed the Boston Marathon have turned out to be not white, Tea Party, tax-hating bitter clingers, but Chec...

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Despite recent Conservative malaise, only spectacular collapse could stop Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper has been having fun. How can anyone tell? The man is as inscrutable as destiny. But people who know him say he has been more relaxed, less tense since winning majority government. Some nervous Conservatives are concerned that he’s become...

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Doug Saunders: How our reaction to terror shapes our future

A busy public place, a dense and peaceful crowd of onlookers, a celebratory moment – and then the sharp rupture of a blast. There are bombs. There is panic, there is destruction, there is tragedy and heroism and death.And then there is emptiness. The n...

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Surprise, surprise – Muslim terrorists, again

Despite the collective hopes of the Big Media and government at all levels, the perps in the Boston Marathon bombings turned out to be … Muslims. It’s almost impossible to list all those who speculated and conjectured that this was the work of “right-w...

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Trudeau stumbles over Quebec history, father’s legacy

Justin Trudeau’s first foray in his home province as newly elected federal Liberal Leader got off to a shaky start when he was tripped up by history and his father’s legacy. In a province that is crucial to Mr. Trudeau’s political ambitions, he found h...

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Cities should give thanks for churches’ halo effect

Benefits of belief in the supernatural face the logic of urban planning this week. Toronto’s bylaw harmonization hearings will decide what to do with the mystery of how places of worship benefit the common good and whether they should be given special...

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Adjudicator finds Quebec labour federation used threats to seize control of construction hiring

After getting laid off from his construction job in 2009, Harold Richard decided to do a little work on his house outside Sept-Îles on Quebec’s Lower North Shore. But this was no patio or painting project; fearing for his safety, he installed security...

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George F. Will: U.S. education is going broke on progressivism

The real vocation of some people entrusted with delivering primary and secondary education is to validate this proposition: The three R’s — formerly reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic — now are racism, reproduction and recycling. Especially racism. Consid...

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Is the Vancouver airport ‘one of the unhappiest places on Earth?’