by Diane Bederman | Sep 23, 2018 | Politics, Religion / Spirituality
Machiavelli watched the Borgia’s at work at war. I read The Prince and books about Machiavelli and this is one of the lessons that I took from his writings: if someone says they are going to kill you-believe them. That and “Never attempt to win by force what can...
by Diane Bederman | Sep 21, 2018 | News, Politics
Journalist Jonathan Kay, former editor at the National Post and The Walrus, now Canadian editor of Quillette, sent out a tweet about a white woman, Laura Lynn Thompson, who was attacked by a Muslim woman wearing a Hijab. The Muslim woman threw what was reported as...
by Diane Bederman | Sep 13, 2018 | Ethics, Politics
Jack Crowe wrote in the National Review that after praising the Founders as “geniuses” for devising the American system of government, Cory Booker implied that an acknowledgement of the racism and misogyny typical of the Founders’ era required a rejection of...
by Diane Bederman | Sep 12, 2018 | Politics, Religion / Spirituality
Chris Selly posted his opinion on free speech in an article he wrote for the National Post. He is a regular contributor. His article is about “how capricious, self-serving and addlepated governments often are when dealing with rights.” After discussing conflicting...
by Diane Bederman | Sep 6, 2018 | Politics
“Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity. It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from...
by Diane Bederman | Sep 1, 2018 | News, Politics, Religion / Spirituality
I recently published an article about the Muslim Halal Festival of the Sacrifice. Here is a video of a group of Muslims participating in this special celebration. This video, Qurbani in Canada, documents the Halal slaughter during Eid Al-Adha, Festival of...
