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Stories by Jonathan Kay

Jonathan Kay is Managing Editor for Comment at Canada's National Post newspaper, and a blogger at Fullcomment.com, the blog of the National Post comment section.

Where Are the Anti-Semites at Occupy Wall Street?

Jonathan Kay wrote on October 26th, 2011 at 12:00 pm

Back in late 2009, when many still believed that Sarah Palin was the future of American politics, left-wing filmmakers Chase Whiteside and Erick Stoll took their camera to a Borders book store in Columbus, Ohio, where the former Alaska governor was signing copies of her book Going Rogue. Whiteside and Stoll went up and down   more

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The Guardian’s Make-Believe Canada

Jonathan Kay wrote on May 4th, 2011 at 6:10 pm

Heather Mallick’s columns regularly depict Canada as a land of demented plebes living under a near-”Stalinist” dictator. How do her rants get to run in The Guardian?  more

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From Dallas to Tucson

Jonathan Kay wrote on January 14th, 2011 at 3:50 pm

In the aftermath of Rep. Giffords’ shooting, the American media reacted much as they did in 1963, after Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy.  more

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Colbert & Stewart’s Coffee Party

Jonathan Kay wrote on October 31st, 2010 at 2:46 pm

We’ve heard a lot about Tea Party fury. Those at the Stewart/Colbert rally are an equally fed up voting bloc. Except that they aren’t angry, just … bemused.  more

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Palin Rallies the Tea Party Faithful

Jonathan Kay wrote on February 6th, 2010 at 10:23 pm

At a convention marked by extreme speeches and occasional conspiracy theories delivered from the podium, the question going into Saturday night’s keynote finale from Sarah Palin was: How extreme would she get in order to ingratiate herself with her audience?  more

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Tea Party’s Fifteen Minutes Are Up

Jonathan Kay wrote on February 6th, 2010 at 6:10 pm

Looking forward, the Tea Party organizers have big plans. But my view is that the movement will soon start to fall apart, if it hasn’t already.  more

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Birthers Get a Tea Party Welcome

Jonathan Kay wrote on February 6th, 2010 at 12:01 am

The Tea Party Convention has managed to put a conservative face on a movement that, if not quite mainstream, is at least respectable. That changed with one long dumb speech from WorldNetDaily chief Joseph Farah, one of the leaders of the so-called Birther movement.  more

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From Acorn “Pimp” to Tea Party Hero

Jonathan Kay wrote on February 5th, 2010 at 11:28 pm

They just gave an ovation to a shout-out to James O’Keefe… Last seen getting arrested in a Senator’s office.  more

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Getting Religion at the Tea Party Convention

Jonathan Kay wrote on February 5th, 2010 at 7:27 pm

Having spent the day listening to speeches at the Tea Party National Convention and talking to delegates, the one thing that has really surprised me is the high level of explicitly Christian social conservatism on display.  more

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Blogging: Entrepreneurship Trumping Central Planning

Jonathan Kay wrote on February 2nd, 2009 at 12:51 pm

When David and I started together at the National Post at the paper’s launch in 1998, both of us approached our job in roughly the same way. In the morning, we would check in with a supervising editor, discuss topics and word count, and then settle on an assignment. We’d work through the day, researching   more

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