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Hate speech is best fought with a pen (National Post, April 21, 2004)

  • April 21, 2004
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"...
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Late motherhood's surprise gift (National Post, April 14, 2004)

  • April 14, 2004
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...
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Our side needs a Higher Power (National Post, April 7, 2004)

  • April 7, 2004
This week marks pivotal religious holidays celebrated even by otherwise secular Christians and Jews. Mel Gibson's film, The Passion, will doubtless be discussed at length over the br...
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Jews know the danger of appeasing evil (National Post, March 31, 2004)

  • March 31, 2004
You may not recognize the name Adbusters, but it is the biggest-selling Canadian magazine in the United States with 70,000 American subscribers. Its current issue poses the curious q...
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Infidelity is not an 'act of courage' (National Post, March 24, 2004)

  • March 24, 2004
Dr. Jean Marmoreo's patients, mature women brimming over with midlife woes and joys, provide the subject matter for her weekly Globe and Mail column. On Feb. 28, using two of her pat...
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Ivy League porn leaves me cold (National Post, March 17, 2004)

  • March 17, 2004
What do women want? I know I am not the first or last to ask -- Pfizer Pharmaceuticals (makers of Viagra) are frantically seeking the answer, for example -- but even Freud never got ...
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Palestinians' cult of child suicide (National Post, March 10, 2004)

  • March 10, 2004
  MONTREAL - Retired Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire, veteran of the Rwanda genocide of 1994, during which Hutu teens hacked Tutsis to death with machetes, recently spoke to high school ...
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She mesmeize eventhose who doubt her (National Post, March 06, 2004)

  • March 6, 2004
Martha Stewart is guilty. She may go to jail. It isn't quite the kick in the stomach it was when I watched the O.J. Simpson verdict come in, but that was murder. The mechanics of he...
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Don't tamper with Nature's schedule (National Post, March 03, 2004)

  • March 3, 2004
Blame it on Queen Victoria. When she availed herself of the new miracle of anesthesia for the delivery of one of her many children, the monarch conferred legitimacy on the hitherto f...
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Candy, stand by your man, Tex (National Post, February 25, 2004)

  • February 25, 2004
Canadians will laugh at themselves, and then go all sensitive when others laugh at them. But truth-based mockery is a salutary ego check. Last year I applied that theory to practice ...
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Sheltered under the Eagle's mighty wings (National Post, February 18, 2004)

  • February 18, 2004
When you love a friend, however imperfect she is, it’s a shock to overhear, “She’s a loser. Almost everyone hates her.” You’re angry on her behalf, but you only s...
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Romantic Love is Dead (National Post, February 11, 2004)

  • February 11, 2004
Happy Valentine’s Day. Seen or read any good love stories lately? No, I mean where no one was naked, and where your heart swelled and you got goose bumps because you were...
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British Obituaries (National Post, February 02, 2004)

  • February 2, 2004
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum. (Say nothing about the dead unless it is good.) This dictum was law in newspapers until 1986, when England’s Daily Telegraph set out to riva...
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Only execution can deliver justice (National Post, January 28, 2004)

  • January 28, 2004
Recently I crossed paths with an old friend from university days, who as a law student assisted in the defence for Ron Turpin, the last Canadian to be executed before the abolition o...
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The married life is the best (National Post, January 21, 2004)

  • January 21, 2004
The series Sex and the City is winding down, and that's fine with me. I got the gist quickly, and dislike almost everything about it: the fusion of soap opera, group therapy and soft...
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The entire episode made me squirrelly (National Post, January 14, 2004)

  • January 14, 2004
Everyone wants to know: Would I display grace under pressure, courage under fire? But few of us willingly seek out jobs or situations to test our mettle. If you choose soldiering or fi...
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I blame elites for our uncivil society (National Post, January 7, 2004)

  • January 7, 2004
A reader -- M_____ -- wrote to express his vexation over a recent column. No problem; it's a free(ish) country. What distinguished this particular e-mail was its opening line: "Jesus, ...
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The Democrats are slipping into impotency (National Post, December 31, 2003)

  • December 31, 2003
American presidential campaigns seem to go on forever. It seems like years, not months, that the nine Democratic contenders have been racing for the nomination. I have some liberal,...
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Christians (National Post, December 24, 2003)

  • December 24, 2003
Merry Christmas! Not Happy Holiday, User-friendly Yule, or Salubrious Solstice. Merry C*h*r*i*s*t mas. I say this with heartfelt goodwill -- as I arrange the Hannukah candles in my m...
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Kidults should grow up (National Post, December 19, 2003)

  • December 19, 2003
We saw the movie Elf last week, expecting the silliness kids like plus some sly comic winking at adults, like Shrek, Toy Story, and other modern kid-themed movies. But no, it was onl...
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