Category Archives: Media

Read none about it

Perhaps blogging about blogs seems a bit self-absorbed, self-referential, derivative or too many steps removed from real life, too cyber-unreal. Nevertheless I want to point to Mark Steyn’s comment on National Review Online’s “The Corner” yesterday, in which he discusses … Continue reading

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Logic rocked

“B.C. rocked by 12th shooting in 16 days” says the Ottawa Citizen headline. Remind me again how gun control works.

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On CJAD’s Ric Peterson show

Talking about the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

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Now that you’ve solemnly sworn

Good luck to President Barack Obama. He will need it, not only because of the enormous challenges of the office he assumes today but also because of the highly unrealistic expectations of many of his supporters.

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Frost bites

With Ottawa’s medical officer of health issuing a frostbite warning, telling us to wear layers and urging the homeless to seek shelters, and the Humane Society saying to get pets indoors, and the temperature plunging to -30 (without wind-chill) tell … Continue reading

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