It’s too bad for those of my Constitutional Originalist friends that aren’t totally happy with McCain as nominee that they didn’t latch on to this earlier.

In its ruling, posted on Maclean’s website, the commission acknowledges “the writing is polemical, colourful and emphatic, and was obviously calculated to excite discussion and even offend certain readers, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.”

But the commission also says that, overall, “the views expressed in the Steyn article, when considered as a whole and in context, are not of an extreme nature, as defined by the Supreme Court.”

While doubtless of little solace to Mr. Steyn and a group of Canadian writers seeking to wring every last drop of martyrdom from the affair, the reasonable ruling demonstrates that, once again, the system works if you let it.

Well done CHRC.

“The most dangerous summit for the West since Adolph Hitler met with Chamberlain.”

Consistency in thought and action is the hallmark of the true conservative IMO.

I’m not suggesting that an actual alliance or conspiracy exists to defeat the movement for equality rights...it’s more like a confluence of interests shared by groups with certain fundamental views of what constitutes appropriate behaviour.

I also firmly reject the premise that those sharing Al Qaeda’s opposition to same sex marriage are in any way supporting the goals of international jihadism. It is quite possible to be a patriot and support aspects of the jihadist philosophy IMO.

Despite the claims of Dick Cheney and several of the usual suspects at SA that Muhammad Atta met with Iraqi intelligence in 2001, the meeting could not be verified by American intelligence.

Despite statements by the President and the Vice President indicating that Saddam Hussein was prepared to give WMD to terrorist groups for attacks against the United States, the actual intelligence contradicted that possibility.

I suppose they had their reasons for making unsubstantiated statements or perhaps the statements can be substantiated through avenues other than American intelligence but such behaviour seems a little reckless to me.

P.M. Maliki...Sec. Gates...Gen. Petraeus...it’s the trifecta of defeatists!