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While most Americans are focused on Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan is just as critical and, in some ways, more important. Little known to many is the fact that Pakistani President Pevez Musharraf has been playing both ends against the middle since 11 September 2001, and that he may be about to get …
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The whole flap over the revelations that Virgina Democrat Senate Candidate Jim Webb's fiction contains some things that don't sit well in a political campaign may seem at first glance bizzare, but they are not. This is something that I, although certainly not comparable on a circulation level, took into consideration when writing The Island …
When people think of "traditional" Palm Beach restaurants, they usually refer to places such as Testa's (my grandparents' favourite hangout) or the Petite Marmite. But for those of us who lived there in the late 1960's, a place not to be left off of the list was Wert's, on South Ocean Boulevard not far from …
There seems to be a divergence of opinion outside the U.S. on where George Bush gets his inspiration from. On the one hand, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder found it disturbing that George Bush made so much of his relationship with God and apparently claimed so much inspiration therefrom. Now we have Mahmud Ahmadinejad claiming …
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I recently had the privilege of addressing the Minister's Meeting of the Church of God in Ontario, under the leadership of its Administrative Bishop, the Rt. Rev. George Peart (that's right, Anglicans, Rt. Rev.) It was a really wonderful gathering, and I was able to address the ministers about lay and men's ministries. We have …
Note: this is the third in our series on Election 2006. The first two, The Democrats and National Security: Dzerzhinskii’s Dilemma and Electing the Unelected, were presented earlier. One of the long-running whines about American politics is the low level of voter participation in elections. About this time every election cycle we are regaled with …
The likes of Tony Blair and Jack Straw cannot rationally criticise women who wear too much when they do not take offence at those who wear too little.
One of our more viewed pieces is Think Before You Convert, an overview of the pros and cons of Anglicans who are thinking about "swimming the Tiber" and becoming Roman Catholics. It looks like we have yet another reason to think about it, because now we see that Rep. Mark Foley's Maltese priest at Sacred …
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One of the enduring fixtures of American politics is that elections are largely decided by a relatively small group of "independent" voters in the centre. Or at least that's where we think they are. One of the great principles that such voters will enunciate is that they "vote for the man (and when called upon …
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