End of the Canterbury tales?

When I was an Episcopalian it seemed to me the name summed up the core belief that held the church together: they believed in bishops. It was pleasant being a bishop, it should be pleasant being a bishop, and if you didn’t go along with that you didn’t belong and you should go someplace else. … More ...

O Canada!

“Worthwhile Canadian Initiative” once won a New Republic contest for the most boring conceivable headline for a New York Times editorial. With that in mind, here are some Canadian initiatives the Times would no doubt find worthwhile:

  • A New Brunswick human rights tribunal says that a 14-year-old girl who’s on a hockey team has to
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The band plays on, and the song never ends

More items on AIDS, the all-purpose, all-political, all-symbolizing disease:

  • Michael Fumento points out how grossly overrated and overfunded AIDS is as an American health problem: When Is Enough Enough?
  • Meanwhile, Cardinal Trujillo makes another obvious point, that defending normal attitudes, standards and expectations is a much more effective way to fight AIDS than the
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On to Thanksgiving!

We’ve seen a largely successful attempt at public abolition of Christmas. This may be a first sighting of a similar campaign for Thankgiving: from “Clifford’s Puppy Days,” a PBS children’s program, their latest episode Fall Feast:

“It’s the Fall Feast holiday, and the Howards are planning to visit Emily Elizabeth’s grandparents. But a snowstorm

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Why is the Nobel Prize so prestigious?

The repeated assertion by the current Nobel peace laureate that HIV was deliberately created in a Western biological warfare laboratory has deservedly attained notoriety. The brief wire service story reporting the comments is a reminder of the world of international dreams—or fantasies—from which such prizes and comments emerge:

  • A basic issue: why give a peace
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