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The Domestic Violence Industry’s War on Men

  • January 21, 2010
The industry that has grown up around domestic violence (DV), or, as it is more precisely situated these days in research circles, intimate partner violence (IPV), began in good faith decades ago a...
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Male victims need help too

  • January 20, 2010
Memo regarding the release of a major report: Don't choose a time when most pundits are so distracted by upcoming holidays that their mental inbox is too full to give the report its due con...
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Sorry isn't always the right word

  • January 19, 2010
From earliest childhood it would seem that the hardest words to say are "I'm sorry." Children would never say them if they weren't coached, prompted, nagged and sometimes time...
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A good spanking

  • January 13, 2010
A recent study by a Michigan psychology professor concluded that "young children spanked by their parents may perform better at school later and grow up to be happier." Spanked? Happi...
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Mile-high morality

  • January 6, 2010
Up in the Air is the Rom Com (romantic comedy) of the year. Most critics love it. It's hugely entertaining, but the surprise ending (spoiler alert!) sends a jarring message no reviewer (to ...
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The end of the gender wars

  • December 30, 2009
The notion that female victimhood is more tragic than male victimhood has long been widely accepted. But those days are over Christinne Muschi, Reuters Something odd occurred in...
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The genius of Lionel Davidson

  • December 23, 2009
One of my favourite novelists died Oct. 21 at the age of 87, and it took a while before the news reached me: The British-Israeli Lionel Davidson was relatively unknown on this side of the pond,...
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Quebec's new state religion: cultural relativism

  • December 16, 2009
In September 2008, after years of pre-planning by elites without public consultation, Quebec's Ministry of Education established a province-wide, compulsory pedagogical program called Ethiq...
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Death's sunny waiting room

  • December 9, 2009
I have two sisters, an older and a younger. We like to pretend we all make our life choices independently, but in fact, every little decision by one sister immediately prompts low-grade competitive...
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Sarah’s Story – by Barbara Kay

  • December 4, 2009
There is one subject no writer in the world, even the most talented and eclectic, would hope to have as a book project, and that is the death of his own child. A Cracking of the Heart by f...
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Burka Barbie

  • December 2, 2009
In the process of conveying a general idea or a cue to an emotional response, we often seek instinctive recourse in a linguistic device called antonomasia. We'll substitute an antonomastic ...
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Holy Post: My life, my choice

  • November 27, 2009
Barbara Kay responds to Matt Gurney Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:14 PM by Matt Gurney Barbara Kay, Euthanasia, Holy Post Matt Gurney’s November 24 column, “My ...
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Cutting off their noses to spite their race

  • November 25, 2009
Last week, while sitting in my plastic surgeon's waiting room reading brochures extolling the magical properties of mysteriously named "fillers" that can reverse nature's cruel depradations to the f...
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Stick with it you'll enjoy it eventually; comment

  • November 20, 2009
A just-released study from the Vanier Institute of the Family by York University professor Anne-Marie Ambert, Divorce: Facts, Causes and Consequences, vindicates assumptions many conservatives hold ...
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Moralism andjudgment

  • November 18, 2009
National Addictions Awareness Week begins today (Nov. 18-24). Everybody -- informed or otherwise -- has an opinion on addiction and how to treat it, so the subject never fails to generate animated p...
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An ugly truth

  • November 17, 2009
Finally, the government has explicitly recognized that socially approved violence against women is barbaric   Last week the Post published excerpts from the new guidebook issued by Citizenshi...
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Make life the only choice

  • November 4, 2009
They don’t call it the scary-sounding “Hemlock Society” any more. The new name is “Compassion and Choices.” Under this cuddly rubric, bespoke death is now endorsed by respected society matro...
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Chewing: A brief history

  • October 28, 2009
You'll never see a fat chimpanzee in the wild. Chimps spend about six hours a day chewing their diet of raw fruits and vegetation to absorb enough energy to survive. That explains their wide mouths ...
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The problem with the Pink Book

  • October 23, 2009
Chris Wattie, Reuters The Liberal Women's Caucus has released their 40-page Pink Book, Volume III. Clearly a great deal of midnight oil was consumed by the Pink Book writers in agonizing about wha...
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Boy-hating is in

  • October 21, 2009
As my first-born was a boy, I quite reasonably hoped for a girl the second time around. In my technologically antediluvian era, one discovered one's child's sex upon delivery. So the long gestationa...
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