Thursday digest

- An informative editorial on the North Korean nuclear situation, here.

- Some troubling signs of further capitulation by British society to Islamist demands have emerged (see here and here). For an alarming look at how Britain (and Europe more broadly) is demonstrating nearly complete spinelessness by watering down its values, customs, traditions and expectations, read "Londonistan" by Melanie Phillips and "While Europe Slept" by Bruce Bawer.

- Holy rollers give me the creeps. It's not because of what they believe - I could really care less - but how they express those beliefs. The problem is that I don't think they co-exist easily with people who don't share their fervor. (How can I be myself around someone who thinks I'm committing a mortal sin against God when I crack open a frosty ale and kick back to some Sabbath?!?)

That being said, I think it's absolutely appalling how Trudeaupians are suggesting that Tory political hirees should be disqualified from employment because of their religious beliefs. For a party which wraps itself in the Charter so often and cries "discrimination" against every Liberal client group whenever they get the chance, it's totally hypocritical for them to suggest that the Charter's guarantees of religious freedom shouldn't apply to those who take a Biblically-oriented Christian view of the world. (Heck, even leaving religion aside for a minute, if we judged public office holders on their suitability to serve by whether or not they're pro-gay marriage, every Liberal MP from Scarborough wouldn't be allowed to sit in Parliament!)