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The selective abortion debate lays bare the internal contradictions of the materialist, utilitarian mindset at the core of our cultural mindset. If we explicitly refuse to place value on the fetus, then we have no legal or moral basis on which to say that it's wrong to destroy some fetuses and prefer others. Our conscience knows that it's wrong to value one life more than another. By

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As Lawrence Martin ably chronicles in Harperland, one of the missions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's political life is to destroy the Liberal Party of Canada. Mr. Harper would rather see clear left-right showdowns in Canada, than the re-emergence of Liberals governing from the mushy middle. He wants a permanent realignment of the Canadian political narrative, and this only works if he can

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In a surprise announcement today, Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled the fall legislative calendar, which includes plans to outlaw long underwear. "Canadians are tired of these bloated undergarments," said the PM, "the coalition parties love excess. They think that money - and cotton - grows on trees. Canadians are feeling over-fabricked and Canada's Conservative government takes the

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Anonymous sources say that a movement is afoot to recruit Pierre Trudeau to run for the Liberal leadership posthumously, if the Grits lose the next election. The Trudeau family issued a statement calling the idea "callous and hurtful", but "inspired". Following the Liberal Party's caucus retreat in New Brunswick last week, caucus members sung the praises of Michael Ignatieff, the current

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Obama’s Plan is Simple, but not Easy Some Canadian politicians like to criticize the US health care system’s lack of universality and its high costs. Right-leaning US politicians return the favour by criticizing the Canadian system’s Soviet-style wait times, rationing and lack of choice due to government monopoly. Both are wrong, of course, because the best health systems in the world are in

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In a long-ago political era - also known as the Chretien years - Stephen LeDrew, then-Prez of the Liberal Party of Canada, famously called then-PM Jean Chretien's new legislation governing party financing "dumb as a bag of hammers". And while LeDrew was probably thinking of the damaging effect the new law would have on the Liberal Party (what really matters to all modern-day Liberals first and

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Our Tax System Explained in BeerBy: David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.Professor of EconomicsUniversity of Georgia Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.The fifth would pay $1.The sixth would pay $3.The seventh would pay $7.

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