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I am a Bad Canadian because… I think that the money I earn belongs to ME, not some sticky-pawed apparatchik in Ottawa. I think that “multiculturalism” is just a trendy new shade of lipstick for a pig that used to be called “tribalism” or “apartheid.” I think people should stop bellyaching about “getting guns off the street” when the real problem is the dirtbags who brought the guns on the street in the first place, in which case the ideal solution is a speedy trial, a strong tree and ten bucks’ worth of rope, not another round of stupid “law-abiding...

You might say the night Ricky Saha snapped was 30 years in the making. In 1971, Saha's parents bought 48 lush Chester County acres and poured their souls into making the land a home. Living in a trailer at first, Dick and Nancy Saha raised five children while they restored the 250-year-old farmhouse on the property. Today the farm is a cherished family compound, with homes for children and grandchildren. It is also a piece of property the City of Coatesville is determined to seize. Those same 30 years saw Coatesville slide into unrelieved economic decline. Looking for a way...

Tide is Turning Against Section 1062 — Keep At It! Lawmakers Alerted, Joining Fight for Sanity, Even as Senate Passes S.1438 Wednesday You're doing it! It's working. Lawmakers, increasingly aware of the foolishness of Section 1062 of the Defense Authorization Bill (S.1438), are alerting their colleagues the unnecessary, unconstitutional, and anti-historical mindset this section, that passed the Senate Wednesday, shows. As the section says, anyone would be guilty of a federal crime, if he or she possessed any of many, many materials, including Warbirds. (If you don't have the wherewithal to own a warbird, consider also that your night ...

Death by Therapy The New Age counselors who killed a little girl—and the "child welfare" regime that enabled them. By Christopher Caldwell The death of 10-year-old Candace Newmaker —who was asphyxiated last year during a bizarre New Age therapy for a dubious disorder—had all the ingredients of an O.J. Simpson-esque cause célèbre. It's not just that Candace was a particularly charming girl, although she appears to have been. It's also that her therapists-cum-captors, throughout the Denver trial that ended in their conviction on April 20, showed every outward sign of unrepentant evil. They even videotaped the entire hour over which ...

GUN CONTROL COME (c) copyright 1992 W.J. Bethancourt III (Tune: "The Banana Boat Song") Every year, the local ACLU chapter puts on a satiric revue. As it happened, the fella in charge of it was on FILK echo, and I complained about the liberal bias of many of the songs. He promptly asked me to write them a song for the revue, of a subject of my own choosing.....muahahahahah! They were big enough to perform it, and it made quite a few people squirm... Get the lyrics here

REASON * June 2000 Hollywood's Missing Movies Why American films have ignored life under communism. By Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley Every so often someone in Hollywood uses his power to break the movie colony's rules. Consider this year's Total Eclipse. Odd as it may seem, this is the first serious American film set against the background of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, the deal that allied Europe's two totalitarian powers against the West and helped plunge the world into war. With an ally on the eastern front, Hitler sent his Panzers west while Stalin helped himself to the Baltic states and invaded ...

Made to measure for the media Mark Steyn National Post Back in the Sixties, when he held one of Britain's oldest Cabinet posts, Edward Heath, the Lord Privy Seal, was greeted by a foreign dignitary as "Lord Heath." Mr Heath explained that, though Lord Privy Seal, he was neither a lord nor a privy nor a seal. Likewise, yesterday's Million Mom March: there were neither a Million, nor did they March, and, while most were Moms, their mommyness was not their defining characteristic. Instead of marching, they milled on Washington's Mall, listening to keynote speaker Rosie O'Donnell. Instead of a ...

San Francisco constantly struggles with itself to solve the question of how many ***holes it's possible to fit into a square mile. How many cybersissies can you cram into a phone booth? How many Gaia-peddling belly-floppers? How many self-absorbed monkish Nerf balls of ideological irrelevance? How many dayglo lemon-meringue fashion tarantulas? How many gaunt, cellophane-wrapped nipple-tweakers? How many prune-twatted hipster debutantes? It's a star-lit ballroom full of elitists masquerading as egalitarians. Of snobs pretending to be socialists. Of petty backstabbers who appoint themselves as, moral crusaders These creeps can't get along with the other 99% of the country -- s***, ...

Road to El Bathhouse Animated film puts a gay spin on the old Hope-Crosby comedies From its opening moments, The Road to El Dorado looks and sounds oddly out of time, as though it were removed only yesterday from a time capsule sealed and buried in 1972. With its Peter Max visuals and Elton John vocals, it's a decidedly unhip piece of work -- Starlight Express for kids, animated and lit up like a sinking Yellow Submarine. Indeed, there's no reason why this movie, like The Lion King, another Elton John-Tim Rice concoction, shouldn't translate well to the Broadway stage ...

The new Lords is intellectually arrogant, feisty - and a potential nightmare for new Labour The awkward squad Two events happened in the House of Lords last Thursday: the report of the Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords was published; the House defeated the Government's plan to limit the right to trial by jury by 222 votes to 126. The Wakeham committee's report is not as feeble a document as its numerous critics have alleged, but it is no more than a worthy first look at a number of issues which will take years, or more likely ...