I didn't watch most of the Democratic convention in Boston last week. If it's scary political brainwashing I'm after, there's always the new version of The Manchurian Candidate...
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National Post
In the last days before the Democratic National Convention, John Kerry and John Edwards adopted a campaign slogan: “Let America Be America Again.” They wer...
I started using e-mail about 12 years ago -- tentatively at first, and only to communicate with a close friend who'd moved overseas. But within a year, I got hooked on what I now consi...
MONTREAL - One hears that the scourge of political correctness has peaked, and is even on the wane. But an unsettling episode in my Montreal synagogue around the subject of gay marriage has ...
I remember childhood summers for the freedom to read what I wanted for however long I wanted.
For years, I was hooked on girls' series books: Apart from universal favourite Nancy D...
Canada Day and U.S. Independence Day elicited several columns comparing our respective ideas of patriotism. Most agreed that Americans don't brood over patriotism's meaning, they j...
MONTREAL - On Monday night, I went to bed stunned and depressed. I really thought this time we would throw the bums out. Pundits and pollsters fed my rosy illusions, and I'm sure their pro...
It happens time and again. You're watching, say, Paula Zahn on CNN interviewing Israeli and Palestinian representatives after a West Bank raid by the Israeli army. The calm Palestinian spo...
Today marks the 100th anniversary of "Bloomsday." On June 16, 1904, James Joyce's unlikely hero, Leopold Bloom, made his way through the streets of Dublin in the novel Ulysse...
Sexual modesty is an inborn, self-protective reflex in girls, especially at the threshold of puberty. "Good girls" were not suppressed; they were shielded from emotional injury at ...
Dating and relationship-building are in steep decline amongst today's young people. According to a teen interviewee in a recent New York Times Magazine article on teenage sexual habi...
Naming the animals was Adam's first task, so we know that the act of naming is a grave responsibility. My father-in-law understood this. When my husband was born, "Steven" was the an...
I went to the Omni Hotel Monday night to see Stephen Harper kick off his Quebec campaign. The room was packed with hundreds of happy people, and if you were gauging Harper's prospect...
I was the kind of girl who was programmed to see tools as a variation of "rats and snails and puppy-dog tails," something only boys were made of or for. That notion was reinforce...
I used to sing in a school choir. Invitations to entertain outsiders were exciting. I can imagine how thrilled we would have been to perform a song in a film. Here is a story of a ch...
The graphic evidence of the horror show at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has dealt a savage blow to American morale.
And to mine.
I fully approved of the war in Iraq. Saddam was the Middl...
This Sunday mothers around the world will be honoured with long distance calls, flowers, chocolates, hotel brunches and gifts chosen with greater (or lesser) than normal care by thei...
Until a week ago I hadn't heard of clinical psychologist Dr. Marty McKay, but she became my favourite Canadian when she finally provided a legal and ethical way to wipe the smirk off...
There are so many things wrong with hate speech laws in general that it hardly matters whether Bill C-250 is passed now or later. Nevertheless, C-250, which adds "sexual orientation"...
As a postmodern Jane Austen might observe: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a middle-aged parent in possession of married children must be in need of a grandchild.
I am e...