David Warren

...there is a way to measure Canadian complacency with statistical precision.

James Patrick Holding

This is an excellent questionnaire produced by J.P. Holding for the average surfing apologist or sincere skeptic.

h/t Rick

Modern Chauvinism

Under the tutelage of these once-confident ideologies still touted by secularizing elites, sex has been reduced to orgasm, persons to bodies, psychology to stimuli, economics to planning mechanisms, and politics to machinery. All these premature certitudes....

Stephen Harper

The trouble is that - partly because of the surging commodity prices that have made all incumbent regimes unpopular - G8 is led by politicians who lack authority.

Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Gordon Brown are disliked at home; George Bush is a lame duck; Silvio Berlusconi is changing the law to indemnify himself; Dmitri Medvedev is regarded as Vladimir Putin's creature and, in any case, Russia does not merit inclusion in the G8 by virtue either of its democratic structures or the size of its economy; Yasuo Fukuda, the host, has just become the first ever Japanese leader to have a censure vote passed against him in parliament.

Of all the leaders, only Stephen Harper - the talented but curiously neglected Canadian prime minister - is able to point to a popular and successful record in office.

Some will regard it as alarming that, in current times, world leadership should rest with Canada. But the Canadian Tories are a model of how to behave during a downturn.

They have kept spending in check and reduced taxes. They are playing their full role in world affairs, notably in Afghanistan.

Rather than canting about saving the world (Mr Harper, in his quiet and courteous way, is a Kyoto-sceptic) they have addressed themselves to curing remediable ills and, above all, to putting their own affairs in order.

If the rest of the world had comported itself with similar modesty and prudence, we might not be in this mess.

h/t Hunter

The Waterboy

Bob Ackles
R.I.P.
September 16, 1938 – July 6, 2008
were that all power rested so blithely on others shoulders

Bishop Ben Kwashi

A faith worth living for is a faith worth dying for. Brothers and Sisters in the west, please do not attempt to change or water down or secularize that faith for which some of us will lay down our lives.

One Dominion under the Name of Canada

May he have dominion from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth!
Psalm 72:8