Kathy Shaidle's review of Judith Reisman's Sexual Sabotage: How one mad scientist unleashed a plague of corruption and contagion on America that appeared in the September issue is now online. Shaidle begins: Judith Reisman has devoted her life to exploring one of the most depressing and disturbing stories of the 20th century: the “scientific research” about human sexuality conducted by Alfred Kinsey that [...]
Jill Stanek points out that the National Organization of Women has endorsed a pair of male candidates who have described female political opponents/women with whom they have disagreed as whores. Of course, both candidates, California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown and Florida 8th District House candidate Alan Grayson, are pro-abortion Democrats. One could make a case for NOW ignoring the misogynistic comments, but they've [...]
Interim contributor Harley Price's blog Priceton is worth visiting regularly. His latest post is entitled, "The Atheist Delusion: How the Religion of Progressive Thinking Poisons Everything, Part One." A sample of Price's essay on Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens: The real subject of Dawkins' and Hitchens' books is indeed their own moral and intellectual superiority, and the sneering contempt that they and [...]
The October cover stories are now online: "Human trafficking: an uncomfortable truth in Canada." "Joy Smith’s crusade against the trade in human beings."
Liberal MP Keith Martin notes: "Today is World Sight Day. Inexpensive prevention and treatment interventions can save the sight of millions." Of course, if provincial medical budgets and foreign aid weren't wasted on abortion, the money could be used to fight blindness. Government does not have finite resources, so governments should carefully choose its priorities.
Five students taking part in a Genocide Awareness Project were arrested yesterday at Carleton University in Ottawa for showing graphic images of aborted babies and comparing the slaughter in the womb to other atrocities such as the Holocaust and slavery. This might not be everyone's cup of tea, but certainly such speech and expression should be permitted on the university campus? But [...]
A 28-year-old mother of three from St. Catharine’s, Ont., after breaking up with an abusive boyfriend, met a man on Facebook who promised her a rich and comfortable lifestyle if she would work as an escort at Private Genies in Toronto. As the Toronto Sun reported, the mother was inadvertently drawn into the world of sex trafficking with the promise of earning [...]
In an interview with The Interim, Conservative MP Joy Smith (Kildonan-St. Paul) reported on her 10-year fight against human trafficking. She first became aware of trafficking in Canada when her son, an RCMP officer, was in the Integrated Child Exploitation Unit. While she served as justice critic in the Manitoba legislature, Smith started to sit in at stakeouts and become aware of [...]
The Ottawa Citizen reports that Ottawa figures show the number of cases of chlamydia jumped to 2,023 in 2009 from 1,328 in 2005, an increase of 52 per cent. There were 217 cases of gonorrhea in Ottawa in 2009 compared to 154 in 2005, an increase of 41 per cent. The number of syphilis cases more than doubled to 51 in 2009 [...]
The Los Angeles Times endorsed pro-abortion Democrat Barbara Boxer over semi pro-life Republican Carly Fiorina, and the abortion and same-sex marriage issues loom large: Boxer supports California's ban on assault weapons and the revival of a similar law at the federal level. Fiorina has criticized the federal law's definition of assault weapons as "extremely arbitrary" and emphasizes other ways of combating gun [...]
I'll be on Behind the Story on CTS Saturday evening (6 pm in Ontario, 8 pm in Alberta). It is replayed on Sunday morning and, I think, Sunday evening at 7 pm. You can also watch online after it has been broadcast. We will be talking about prostitution, the Maclean's cover story on Quebec corruption, David Frum and the conservative movement, and women [...]