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Entries from April 2005

The War Against Bolton

David Frum wrote on April 26th, 2005 at 12:00 am

On Friday, the battle over John Bolton’s nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations ceased to be a battle about Bolton–and became a battle about the presidency.
That morning, the New York Times reported on its front page that “associates of Colin L. Powell, the former secretary of state, said he had expressed   more

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Fight Separatism: Throw Out The Liberals

David Frum wrote on April 19th, 2005 at 12:00 am

Well, you have to give the Liberals marks for audacity.
First they launch a scheme of embezzlement, extortion and graft in Quebec.

Then, when they get caught, they warn that any attempt to hold them accountable for their wrongdoing will divide Quebec from the rest of Canada. They say that these are “dangerous times,”   more

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Woe Canada

David Frum wrote on April 19th, 2005 at 12:00 am

“I LOVE Canada: It’s so clean!” Visiting Americans may be about to lose their favorite clichŽ about their chilly neighbor. Over the past few weeks, a judicial inquiry in Montreal has heard charges that Canada’s governing Liberal Party was running a system of extortion, embezzlement, kickbacks and graft as dirty as anything Americans might   more

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A Dialogue On The Uk Election

David Frum wrote on April 12th, 2005 at 12:00 am

“YouÕve been dreading this. Tony Blair has called an election. Now you are finally going to have to make up your mind: Do you hope he wins or loses?”

“Why do I have to answer that? I am not a British voter. Why canÕt I just say that IÕm glad that both Blair and Conservative leader   more

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The Four Stages Of Adscam

David Frum wrote on April 12th, 2005 at 12:00 am

Don’t expect the Liberals to go quietly. You don’t become the longest-ruling political party in the world by letting a little public disgust discourage you. While Justice John Gomery searches out the sponsorship scandal, the Liberals’ best brains are searching for ways to get away with it.

But how? Thus far they have tried   more

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A Tory Minority Calls For A Deal

David Frum wrote on April 11th, 2005 at 12:00 am

SMASH, CRASH: Paul Martin’s government is falling apart. For the first time in 15 years, it’s possible to imagine the Liberals losing the next election. The trouble is, it remains very hard to imagine the Conservatives winning it.

As things stand, the best likely outcome for the Conservatives is a minority government. That means   more

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What Are You Going To Do About It?

David Frum wrote on April 5th, 2005 at 12:00 am

By now, reader, if you have an Internet connection and access to Google, you have a pretty fair idea of what was said on Thursday in Justice John Gomery’s hearing room. If true, that testimony portrays the most systematically corrupt government in Canada’s modern history.

Until now, there has been a strong tendency in   more

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Ode To A Grandmother

David Frum wrote on April 1st, 2005 at 12:00 am

In 1962, the great literary critic Northrop Frye delivered a series of lectures over the CBC titled The Educated Imagination. Frye’s message was delivered with his characteristic indirection and erudition, but simply put was this: If a tender mind was delivered into his care, he’d begin by filling it up with the Greek myths,   more

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