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Conservative parties can’t win without socons

Shortly after Barack Obama won the 2008 United States presidential election, Republican Congressman Paul Ryan ruefully observed: “Whenever Republicans lose an election, a factional dispute arises about ‘economic issues’ versus ‘moral or social issues.’ ‘Traditionalists’ and ‘libertarians’ blame each other, each claiming Republicans would do better without the other.” Now some libertarians are back at it again, blaming the Republicans’ defeat in last [...]

Paul Tuns2013-01-23T10:30:06-05:00January 23, 2013|Columnist, Rory Leishman|

Unnatural law

Light is Right Joe Campbell I don’t have a supple mind. Unlike some highly trained professionals, I can’t abide contradictions. When a British Columbia judge ruled that the right to life can also mean the right to death, I realized how inflexible my non-professional intellect is. I couldn’t hand down a ruling like that. Of course, I couldn’t. I’m not [...]

Paul Tuns2013-01-23T10:23:58-05:00January 23, 2013|Columnist, Joe Campbell|

Christmas and the ultimate gift

Journalist for Life Michael Coren There is so much discussion about the attempt to take Christ out of Christmas. The expunging of the word and the spirit is regrettable of course. I wonder, however, if we’re missing the point. One doesn’t have to be a Christian to be a supporter of life, but it’s impossible to doubt that most in [...]

Paul Tuns2013-01-23T09:38:42-05:00January 23, 2013|Michael Coren|

Overcoming squeamishness watching bin Laden movie

I doubt that I’m the only person who found the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy SEALS last year unsatisfying, both as a skirmish in an ongoing war and, looking at it a bit more flippantly, as a dramatic finale. For all the counter-espionage resources that it took to find the man, and the undeniable military skill of the SEALS [...]

Paul Tuns2013-01-11T12:58:36-05:00January 11, 2013|Movie Review, Rick McGinnis|

Part Henry James, part Jerry Springer

Amusements Rick McGinnis Thanks to laser-sharp marketing geniuses who regard the perfect moviegoer as a comics-reading teenager with no memory whatsoever of any film made before 2001, feature film production has slipped into only occasionally lucrative irrelevance. As if to compensate, the lowest end of the film production market – documentaries, made for little money with even less expectation of [...]

Paul Tuns2012-12-18T08:43:19-05:00December 18, 2012|Columnist, Rick McGinnis|

Sense and nonsense

Light is Right Joe Campbell I feel like a fool when someone says there are no absolutes. It’s not that I can’t bring myself to respond. I can and I do. It’s just that I feel foolish contradicting something that contradicts itself. To insist on no absolutes is to concede a least one. So it seems a foolish waste of [...]

Paul Tuns2012-12-18T08:41:03-05:00December 18, 2012|Joe Campbell|

McGuinty quits but stays on

Ontario Premier McGuinty has crawled into bed with Russian Prime Minister Valdimar Putin – both steadfastly refusing to give up power – Putin by naming his successor and then reneging on it and McGuinty by suddenly resigning as premier and on the way out the door proroguing the legislature indefinitely. This surprise announcement comes only hours after Progressive Conservative Leader of the [...]

Paul Tuns2012-12-18T08:38:27-05:00December 18, 2012|Frank Kennedy|

Consequences of same-sex marriage

National Affairs Rory Leishman The proponents of traditional marriage in the United States suffered a major setback as voters backed the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in all four states that held referenda on the subject in the November elections. This brings to 10 the total number of states that have legalized same-sex “marriage” either by referendum, legislation or judicial fiat. [...]

Paul Tuns2012-12-18T08:34:37-05:00December 18, 2012|Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family, Rory Leishman|

All in the dysfunctional family

Michael Coren Journalist for Life An episode of All in the Dysfunctional Family, as it were. Let me tell you a story. A woman journalist whom I know, a gay woman, has been living with her partner for some time now. Some years ago they wanted a child, a baby. So the brother of one of the women had sexual [...]

Paul Tuns2012-12-18T08:24:44-05:00December 18, 2012|Announcements, Features, Michael Coren|

Christmas and the ultimate gift

There is so much discussion about the attempt to take Christ out of Christmas. The expunging of the word and the spirit is regrettable of course. I wonder, however, if we’re missing the point. One doesn’t have to be a Christian to be a supporter of life, but it’s impossible to doubt that most in the pro-life community are indeed Christian, and [...]

paul2012-12-17T11:29:32-05:00December 17, 2012|Michael Coren, Soconvivium|

Compassionate politics

National Affairs Rory Leishman In a combative campaign speech last December, United States President Barack Obama derided his Republican opponents as unprincipled libertarians: “Their philosophy is simple,” he charged. “We are better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules.” Certainly, there are some selfish conservatives who think that the wealthy and prosperous [...]

Paul Tuns2012-11-20T11:04:50-05:00November 20, 2012|Columnist, Politics, Rory Leishman|

Church as house but not home

St. Clement lofts Toronto I’d like to take a break from the usual subjects of this column – movies, TV and books, mostly – to talk about something that might not seem at all related: real estate. I live in a city (Toronto) where real estate – buying and selling, house values, property taxes, neighbourhoods, amenities and development – are [...]

Paul Tuns2012-11-20T11:01:23-05:00November 20, 2012|Announcements, Columnist, Features, Rick McGinnis, Society & Culture|

The chosen elite vs. the masses

Journalist for Life Michael Coren Beware the chattering classes, the self-appointed intellectuals who insist on telling us what to do and how to behave, especially if they are on the left and confidently teach the world about life, sexuality and morality. Consider, for example, George Bernard Shaw, after whom we have named a theatre festival. He lied about what he [...]

Paul Tuns2012-11-20T10:51:53-05:00November 20, 2012|Announcements, Features, Michael Coren, Society & Culture|

Send in the clowns

Light is Right Joe Campbell I don’t understand feminism. Really I don’t. Although I’ve had it explained to me a number of times, I still don’t get it. Oh, I’m making progress, but it’s slow. I was impressed when feminists said that women who serve in combat have to risk their lives for strangers. But I was puzzled when they [...]

Paul Tuns2012-11-20T10:40:38-05:00November 20, 2012|Columnist, Joe Campbell|

Let them go

Light is Right Joe Campbell Sadly, a Québécois spring seems increasingly unlikely. I say sadly, because I can’t help feeling sorry for Francophones who want Quebec to leave Canada. For a mainly French province in a largely English country the frustration is never ending. Look what happens when unilingual Francophones go grocery shopping. They’re searching for haricots rouges, fromage râpé, [...]

Paul Tuns2012-10-25T15:12:01-04:00October 25, 2012|Columnist, Joe Campbell|

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