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Brian Lilley and me on-air, together, and actually smiling. Clip and save.

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Here.

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The black rod on Krista’s desk is the cattle prod she uses when guests behave badly.

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We all await a condemnation of this hate crime by John Baird, Jason Kenney and/or the Office for Religious Freedom.

But, as noted, we won’t be holding our breath.

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I pay quite a bit of attention to the lunatic named Ron Paul, these days, because he figures somewhat prominently in my new book.  His showing in Iowa last night, and some of his past publications, combine to ensure my guy – Barack Obama – is re-elected handily, I think.

Ron Paul statements, you ask?  Here’s some of my favourites, and the link to same:

• “Needlin’, a new form of racial terrorism has struck New York City streets on the tony Upper West Side. At least 39 white women have been struck with used hypodermic needles — perhaps infected with AIDS — by gangs of black girls between the ages of 12 and 14.”
• “Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for that pro-communist philanderer, Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressmen (sic). What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”
• “Order was only restored in L.A. when it was time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. … What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.”
•  “Whether [the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.”
• “Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.”

This maniac came a close third last night.  That tells you (as I will relate in my book) that (a) the Right’s recent political successes have shattered their self-discipline and (b) that, soon enough, progressives will decimate them.

They have gone to the margins, too far, too fast.

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More must-read stuff, here.  Next week: the sociological implications of her trip to the dry cleaner, with the added bonus of a phone call from one of her female friends.  Can’t wait.

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I wrote to Susan Delacourt yesterday to ask her if, in the linked story, she questioned Bob Rae about his pledge to not seek the Liberal leadership. It doesn’t read like she did.

Anyway, I will let you know what/if I hear from her.  She still hasn’t responded.  It’ll be interesting at the LPC convention in Ottawa next week.

Or, not.

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This guy.

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John Baird, who I don’t regard as a SoCon, is gamely promoting his government’s decision to create an Office of Religious Freedom.  You can read his rationale, such as it is, here.

I’m going to be debating Brian Lilley about this Orwellian kookiness tomorrow on Sun News.  Given how our last get-together turned out, it might be worth a gander.

Here’s a brief summary of why I think this is a bad idea.  More to come.

1.  It involves government in matters of religion.  Government should leave religion alone, and vice-versa.  Church, state, wall, etc.

2.  It’ll cost $20 million, minimum.  In times like these, we don’t need yet more layers of bureaucracy.

3.  The Americans did something similar, and it was found to show bias against Muslims, and a bias for Christians.

4.  In that regard, it’s clear this thing is ripe for political abuse: an October invitation-only meeting with Baird didn’t even invite Sunni or Shia Muslims – two groups, coincidentally, who don’t vote Conservative much.

5.  I’m concerned that the office will focus only promoting Judeo-Christian traditions, and nobody else’s.  Buddhists, Sikhs and Hindus were also excluded from Baird’s secretive little meeting.

6.  $500,000 is going to operate the office for this thing; where will the other $4.5 million go every year?  The Reformatories won’t say.

7.  The new office won’t report to Parliament.  Unlike the U.S. religious-freedom office, it isn’t multi-partisan, either.  Baird runs it.

8.  The Pew Forum found that Christians are persecuted in 130 countries, and Muslims in 117.  Is the Harper regime saying the former matter more than the latter?

9.  This entire thing, as Amnesty International and human rights experts have noted, is being done behind closed doors.  None of them have been consulted.

10.  Even my friends at Sun Media have editorialized against this thing.  They, like me, feel it’s a bad idea on many, many levels.

It’ll be an interesting debate.

UPDATE:  After reading the list above, a youngster named Faith Goldy-Bazos – who describes herself as “Christian and Conservative” – has been whipped into a veritable fury against Yours Truly on Twitter.  After viewing this, sent along by an interested party, I now know why she was invited to the closed-door meeting: she’s a SoCon kook.  Takes one to know one, etc.

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