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How the Shirtless Czar Became a Naked Aggressor and Cowed the West

On April 15, 2014

Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and the West’s weak response

Vladimir Putin doubtless indulges delusions of imperial grandeur, but the Shirtless Czar is nothing but a KGB thug. And his autocratic regime certainly knows how to act the part. Putin’s interference in neighboring Ukraine crossed the line into naked aggression and lawlessness […]

Postal Follies

On March 26, 2014

Canada Races to Enter the Ranks of the Third World

In December 2013, Canada Post shocked Canadians by abruptly announcing a perverse plan to end door-to-door delivery for the millions of people who still have it and to practically double the cost of domestic postage. Those destructive […]

Shame on You, Mr. President

On November 20, 2013

In the wake of this summer’s revelations about the unprecedented scope of the United States government’s massive covert surveillance of Americans (and countless others), the nation’s purportedly ‘liberal’ president, Barack Obama, had the shameless temerity to say that the state apparatus over which he presides is showing commendable “restraint” in wielding […]

Riding on the Whale’s Back

On July 9, 2013

“The Cabot Trail is an organic thing – playful, daring, and exuberant as it

swoops and turns, plunges and climbs, clinging to looming mountainsides, lingering by rocky shores, darting into immense woods, and boldly descending at break-neck […]

In Torture We Trust?

On February 5, 2013

If we stoop to the vile, deplorable methods of our basest enemies, how is our cause any worthier than theirs? We in the West stand for liberty, justice, and the rule of law. Inalienable human rights and human dignity are at the very heart of what we are as a civilization. […]

Teddies and Tyrants

On October 15, 2012

“Cannon to right of them; cannon to left of them… Into the valley of Death floated the six hundred.”*

*With apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who wrote “The Charge of the Light Brigade” in 1854.

One fine day this summer, the sky above Minsk, in the former Soviet republic

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