Reciprocal Politics

Did all of the non-violent protesters at the G20 in Toronto go home? They might as well have, for all the attention the media is paying to them.

A suggestion for, and an apologetic farewell to, the Liberal Party of Canada.

Climate change is real. We can’t turn back the clock. What will Copenhagen do to address the consequences of a warmer earth?

Obama’s Afghan speech needs to be underlined by the voices of those who elected him.

Can Obama change the course of the Afghan war? Or will 30,000 troops be just more of the same?

F5AEUR6ZBVSJ The UN Summit on Food Security might want to take a lesson on feeding the world from a volunteer group in British Columbia, Canada.

No Canadian election this summer.  No real surprise there.  All of the parties played their parts to perfection, gave us something to talk about for a few days, and we can now all go off about our vacation plans – assuming you have a job to have a vacation from – without the nagging concern [...]

Or, as Edmund Burke wrote – All that’s necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Burke lived between 1729 and 1794, proving once again that old adage “the more things change the more they stay the same.” We don’t have to look too far to see what happens when [...]

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. – Winston Churchill I doubt that Churchill is remembered by many as an economist. Or for that matter as a man of “peace.” But he [...]

In Mark Steyn’s column “Good Luck Hopeychanger-in-Chief” (Maclean’s magazine, Aprl 20, 2009) he notes “for us today the warnings come daily on our TV screens, but no prophet dares translate them.” He’s referring to Daniel and Belshazzar’s feast from the Old Testament. It seems to me that Mr. Steyn, like most columnists, and bloggers like [...]