Monday digest

- I'm happy to see that the archaic and antiquated Canadian establishment myth of "two founding nations" is steadily losing currency. The more we start treating each other as unique and dignified individuals rather than just members of certain ethnic or linguistic groups, the better off we'll all be.

- Let's say that the PM heeds the advice of these 60 scientists and scraps Kyoto. How many activists, bureaucrats and so-called experts would have to look for new jobs because their entire existence depends on the "threat" of global warming?

- The latest Hollywood liberal to go off his rocker is Ben Affleck. Isn't it true that if they hated al-Qaeda as much as they hated Tom Delay, America would be a lot better off? And who are they going to cheer for the GOP primaries now?

- On that note, the Taliban and the NDP seem to be increasingly of the same point of view regarding Canada's presence in Afghanistan in that they both want us to leave. Jack Layton himself recently said that fighting radical Islamists is not a noble cause: "We have not accepted the concept that Canada should simply join with George Bush and the American military in rooting out terrorists around the world. That is not a decision that we've ever made or supported." I really hope that there's a unite-the-left movement in Canada with the NDP and the Bloc Toronto because Layton's party is so far outside of the mainstream, it's embarassing.

- This gal has uncovered some evidence which shows that daycare for kids under 3 is not healthy. She'll be on Coren tomorrow night (Tuesday) debating the issue, which should be very interesting.

- Just how corrupt is the UN? Check out the link above for a thorough examination of why anything that has the UN's fingerprints on it should be taken with a healthy dose of cynicism.

- It looks like France is capitulating
to the demands of the socialists. The chickens will come home to roost on this one, like they always do. Youth unemployment will remain alarmingly high (above 20%), social unrest will continue, and France will further decline.

- Note that the press is reporting that W is considering using nukes to take out Iran's own underground nuke facilities, but the New Yorker article on which the reports are based suggest no more than that it is an option that the Department of Defense put forward, along with a strong recommendation against doing just that. Ahh, the work ethic, rigour and accuracy of the mainstream media.