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Seeing the Durban II farce for what it is (National Post April 15, 2009)

  • April 15, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 From its name -- the UN Durban Review Conference, which begins April 20 (Hitler's birthday, appropriately eno...
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So I married a serial shopper

  • August 5, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov conditioned dogs to salivate on cue by associating t...
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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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The Jewish enemy within

  • September 30, 2009
Here's a first for me: a citation from the Koran in support of an historically unhappy truth about my people. Surah 59:14 says of the Jews: "There is much hostility between them: Their hearts are di...
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The West Must Ban the Burqa and Nix the Niqab

  • December 29, 2009
The French are enjoying a debate about their cultural identity. Obviously the word “enjoying” is a euphemism, since the focus of the debate, whether or not to ban the burqa — f...
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The abortion issue we're ignoring

  • July 23, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Last week's murder of Dr. George Tiller, probably the world's most committed abortion provider, evoked ...
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The commodification of sperm

  • July 23, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 A few months ago I took part in a mock debate whose annual tradition it is to task stand-up comics ma...
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The decline of maturity

  • October 14, 2009
English poet Philip Larkin, informed that heaven would restore him to a state of childish innocence, abjured the supposed gift, preferring "money, keys, wallets, letters, books, long-playing records...
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The end of the Ottawa-Quebec 'Bidding War'

  • July 23, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 It has always seemed outrageous to me that although Montreal accounts for one-third of Quebec's vot...
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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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The 'humanitarian mask' (National Post January 14, 2009)

  • January 14, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Last week CNN aired a heartrending videotape of a "dying" Palestinian child receiving "CPR," ostensi...
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The love of self that won't shut up

  • August 26, 2009
Are children worth the trouble? For most parents, the answer is a resounding yes. But not so for French writer (and parent) Corinne Maier --author of the newly published book, "No Kids: 40 Good Reas...
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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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The threat of 'no-differencers' (National Post March 18, 2009)

  • March 18, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 Since 9/11, two distinct views have emerged about the best way to deal with jihadism. One of them is exemplified by terroris...
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True to the Irish spirit

  • July 23, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 It must be the crummy weather. I seem to be on a curmudgeonly literary roll. In last week's column, I shot...
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Truth and survival

  • September 16, 2009
Broadly speaking, 9/11 produced two instinctive responses in the thinking population, which then became political positions that have continued to diverge and harden with the years. The realists in...
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Unreadably Canadian

  • July 23, 2009
Unreadably Canadian Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Authors used to preserve a stoical silence when dragged to the aesthetic woodshed...
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Using kids as weapons (National Post April 01, 2009)

  • April 1, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 Last weekend, I attended the Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), Canada's first international confer...
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Witness to America (National Post January 28, 2009)

  • January 28, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 I can't say I've read every word John Updike ever wrote, but not for want of trying. There's a sp...
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