Tuesday digest

- A top CSIS official warned yesterday in testimony to a Senate committee that the conditions which led to the 7/7 bombings in London exist right now within Canada. This is nothing new, but one of the more alarming factoids that was revealed was that over 90% of the 20,000 people coming to Canada from Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11 have not been properly screened. If this is true, it's a total outrage. What is the role of government if not to make sure that the people coming here do not pose a risk to the safety and security of our country?

Meanwhile, today the House of Commons is spending the entire day debating a Liberal motion on the "protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions" (what the hell does that mean?) while the provincial governments are bitching about how the Conservatives aren't giving them the $5 billion they were expecting to help fund government babysitting programs.

We have our priorities so screwed up in Canada sometimes.

- I am as sick of this dispute as anyone but Lorrie Goldstein makes some good points about the Press Gallery's double standard.

- Dennis Prager continues his excellent series on Judaism here.

- Great article here by Cathy Young which points out the intellectual follies of academia with a couple of shots taken at those who would deny the existence of evolution.