A tragic irony in the story of Ilan Halimi, the French Jew kidnapped and tortured to death two weeks ago, is that he wanted to emigrate to Israel but, according to his mother, was working to...
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My husband Ronny waves a Wall Street Journal clipping at me, exhibiting the smug expression that can mean only one thing: Somebody in authority has proven me wrong on one of his alleged shor...
In his Monday column, Jonathan Kay gave a thumbs up to Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak, a collection of candid musings by Israeli and Palestinian children designed for a...
An Ipsos Reid poll indicates that a majority of Canadians are on the same wavelength as Stephen Harper. Almost two thirds of us believe Israel's military response to Hezbollah's prov...
When news broke of Canada's first female combat death last week -- that of Captain Nichola Goddard in an Afghanistan firefight -- Canadians greeted the news in a gender-neutral way. It w...
What's it like to go into anaphylactic shock? Is a snake a good
alternative when cats make you sneezy and dogs make you wheezy? And hasn't every asthmatic faked it at least once?...
The first indication that our son, Jonny, had allergies occurred when, at the age of about 15 months, he got sick after eating chicken a la king (for anyone under the age of 50, this is basi...
Feminism has revolutionized the demography of the university. Women now constitute 59% of the undergraduate population in Canada. In English literature, 83% of undergrads are female; in soci...
This month, there were two high court cases, one in Britain, one in Canada, both dealing with the limits to freedom of religious expression in public schools. The British case met an importa...
In his Sept. 2 National Post column, George Jonas noted that if universities had been eliminated around 1900, we'd have been spared the devastating effects of many toxic ideologies, whic...
According to my late mother, the pediatrician to whom my older sister and I were taken for our periodic check-ups was a genius. He claimed to know, just from a child's arm muscles, what ...
Nobody wants to go to war, but there's nothing to compare to the feeling of having fought and survived a victorious one. Mine -- the 1995 Referendum and its toxic aftermath -- was a poli...
Opus Dei, the real-life Catholic fellowship Dan Brown mauls to fictional shreds in his novel The Da Vinci Code, has profited from the public's fascination with the Code phenomenon by ope...
A simple way to confirm that a particular ideology has captured mainstream culture is to monitor the political vigour or sluggishness around the causes that it deems "correct" and &q...
Far from the riots, vandalism, church burnings and murders by Muslim mobs in the wake of the Danish cartoons, Canada has so far played the role of concerned onlooker. Like the proverbial cou...
Comes Canada Day and the annual glowy focus on the year's diverse multicultural crop of new Canadians, I remember summers in the late 1940s at our Lake Simcoe cottage community north of ...
MONTREAL - Keen to witness his first triumphant return to Montreal as PM, I made an early reservation at the media table for Stephen Harper's guest appearance at the Montreal Board of Tr...
Hunting the fox, skewering the Finn
Renaissance man Roger Scruton serves up original ideas, chiselled prose
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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It can be anti-climactic to finally get what you've long wanted. It isn't that the Conservatives didn't win big enough to please me; it was that the Liberals didn't lose big ...
'For Heaven's sake, a man is cheating on you, you do what every wife in this country does: You take him to the cleaners. Get his house, car, kids -- make him wish he was dead."
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