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Is George W. Bush a war criminal?

  • February 9, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011 George W. Bush, who has freely admitted to sanctioning waterboarding and other interrogation techniques on terror suspects, has cancelled...
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Jeane Kirkpatrick's lessons in realpolitik

  • February 11, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 In November 1979, Richard V. Allen, Ronald Reagan's foreign policy advisor, commended a just-published magazine article to his boss's at...
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Judaism's fifth column

  • September 28, 2011
 Barbara Kay, National Post · Sept. 28, 2011 | Last Updated: Sept. 28, 2011 3:06 AM ET Every year a few weeks before Rosh Hashana, the celebration of the Jewish ...
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Layton doesn't warrant a state funeral

  • August 25, 2011
It seems the rules are changing on who gets a state funeral in Canada. Jack Layton never led a government, never sat in cabinet and never served as governor-general. According to protocol and traditio...
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Long live the monarchy

  • April 20, 2011
In a robust democracy, fringe political parties such as the Trotskyists and the Marijuana party are cute. They're like four-week old puppies, confidently waddling around a crate they assume is ...
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Love her or hate her, Palin changed feminism

  • March 9, 2011
This week marks the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, which began amidst the efforts of millions of Western women to work, vote, hold public office and end discrimination. On this o...
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Motives matter in the abortion debate

  • August 31, 2011
 There are only two polemically unassailable positions on abortion: (1) never, because it is always murder; and (2) whenever, because an unborn baby is part of the mother's body, hers to d...
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My older sister, the Queen of England

  • October 25, 2011
 Barbara Kay  Oct 22, 2011 – 7:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Oct 21, 2011 5:56 PM ET I have lots of women friends, but apart from being endowed with high intellige...
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Naïveté's offspring

  • May 25, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · May 25, 2011 | Last Updated: May 25, 2011 3:18 AM ET In 1978, a children's book was published called X: A Fabulous Child's Story, about a child w...
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New niqab law puts Canadian values first

  • December 15, 2011
 As part of a wider circle of reforms in his department, Citizenship and Immigration minister Jason Kenney has announced a regulation requiring  Muslim women who observe the custom of wea...
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Obama’s Carter-esque foreign policy deployed to Egypt

  • February 11, 2011
Barbara Kay  February 8, 2011 – 4:35 pm In November, 1979, Richard V. Allen, Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy advisor, commended a just-published magazine article to his boss...
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Paging Dr. Layton

  • May 4, 2011
In his wilder dreams, the relentlessly optimistic Jack Layton may have envisaged taking political ownership of Quebec, but I'm still reeling from it. Happily, though. All the Bloc Québécois cared...
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Prison before dishonour

  • October 26, 2011
 Barbara Kay, National Post · Oct. 26, 2011 | Last Updated: Oct. 26, 2011 3:07 AM ET The deaths of Montreal teenagers Zainab, Sahar and Geeti Shafia, along with ...
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Rob Ford’s sin against the catechism of gender correctness

  • June 25, 2011
REUTERS/Sergio Moraes "Did you hear Rob Ford is skipping the Pride parade because he'd rather spend a weekend at the cottage than celebrate our sexuality? can you believe it?" ...
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Sanibel Island, a real-life Truman Show

  • March 2, 2011
My parents started spending their winters in Florida when they were in their mid-50s. When I say "Florida," of course, I mean Miami Beach. Where else would nouveau riche Jews from Tor...
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Shortchanging Philip Roth

  • May 22, 2011
On Wednesday, the prestigious Man Booker International Prize, accompanied by £60,000, was awarded to American author Philip Roth. However, media attention was rather dramatically diverted fro...
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Sometimes, life is just really sad

  • April 27, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Apr. 27, 2011 | Last Updated: Apr. 27, 2011 4:07 AM ET Grief over the loss of a loved one is a universal phenomenon. But grief's expression and atten...
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Speaking out against a brutal tradition

  • January 26, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 Have Canadians forgotten how to take care of themselves? What are the limits of the nanny state -- and how should we enf...
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Spreading human misery

  • May 18, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · May 18, 2011 | Last Updated: May 18, 2011 3:16 AM ET Insite, in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is the only "safe-injection site" (SIS) i...
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Taking a closer look at Islamic Studies

  • October 19, 2011
 Barbara Kay, National Post · Oct. 19, 2011 | Last Updated: Oct. 19, 2011 3:09 AM ET As an academic discipline, Islamic Studies had a political father and a spir...
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