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The Persecution of a Lebanese-Canadian Woman

2021-05-13 No Comments

You would think, given the intersectional ideology that seems to have gripped the imagination of North America’s chattering classes, that the persecution of a woman who happens to be of Lebanese descent would be a pretty big deal.  After all, we’ve heard repeatedly that Western democracies are domineering patriarchies.  Anti-Muslim bias is a blot on the Canadian body politic.  So if any Canadian institution (let alone a university) targeted a Lebanese-Canadian woman, you would think there would be righteous indignation.  But not so fast! Rima Azur is an associate professor at Mount Allison University.  I’ll let you guess her gender…

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It Takes a Nuclear Family

2021-04-28 No Comments

There is a particularly pernicious and stupid proverb that I hear repeated mindlessly and it drives me crazy:  “It takes a village to raise a child.”  What does that mean?  It asserts that the key success factor for raising healthy and happy children is a community, the macro-environment.  One problem with that theory, however.  It’s a lie.  Everything we know from social science screams that the single most important factor is an intact family, a unit where there is husband and wife living with their biological children under the same roof. I encountered the following statistic that divides the American…

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Here We Go Again…

2021-04-19 No Comments

I am writing this blog-post on the morning of Saturday April 18th after learning that a stay-at-home order has been extended in Ontario until May 20th.  At one time I was charitable and attributed the actions of all three levels of government to incompetence driven by at its core a legitimate fear.  But it’s past time giving these authoritarians the benefit of the doubt.  They are ignoring the science.  They are ignoring the objective and incontrovertible facts.  Nietzsche, who understood the human condition, said it best:  “There is will to power where there is life… the will to power is…

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No Political Party for Old White Men

Views: 0 I’ve been watching the Andrew Cuomo saga with a great deal of interest.  For those who don’t pay much attention to American politics, Andrew Cuomo is the Governor of New York State.  He is a Democrat.  Seven different women have come forward and accused him of sins ranging from sexual harassment to inappropriate […]

The Persecution of a Lebanese-Canadian Woman

Views: 30 You would think, given the intersectional ideology that seems to have gripped the imagination of North America’s chattering classes, that the persecution of a woman who happens to be of Lebanese descent would be a pretty big deal.  After all, we’ve heard repeatedly that Western democracies are domineering patriarchies.  Anti-Muslim bias is a […]

Value Expressive Free Enterprise

Views: 0 United Airlines made an announcement several days ago that has caused a bit of a stir, at least in some circles:  “Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day.  That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade […]

The Fix Is In (Again)

Views: 2 There is going to be a Presidential election approximately three months from now.  It is a statement on the state of Western democracy that the best that the Republican Party can do is Donald Trump and the best that the Democratic Party can do is Joe Biden.  Whatever you think about Donald Trump’s […]

A New Model for Public Schools

Views: 1 My four-year old son will likely be returning to school a few weeks from now. He will be attending a public school close to where we live. He wants to go back because he misses his friends, and this is something I sympathize with. Children should be spending most of their day playing, […]

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