Author: Kathy Shaidle

From my brand new article at PajamasMedia on yesterday’s verdict: The Canadian Islamic Congress issued a statement on Friday evening, putting the best spin possible on the outcome. “We are pleased that the tribunal acknowledged the article in question contained ‘numerous factual, historical, and religious inaccuracies about Islam and Muslims’ and that it attempted ‘to […]

Another day, another Oscar-bait flick about a funny, brave gay martyr. And an uptight, white male gun-owning “Christian” villain. (Trailer etc posted at my blog.) How is it “progressive” exactly that liberal Hollywood always kills off the gay character at the end of the movie? (Or, for that matter, that black characters always get off’d […]

By the time the “show trial” against Mark Steyn and Maclean’s began on June 2, 2008 the case had become a cause celebre in the formidable U.S. conservative media network of blogs and talk radio. Four heavyweight pundits — Jonah Goldberg, Robert Spencer, David Harsanyi and Pat Buchanan — rebuked the censors of “Soviet Canuckistan” […]

Greta van Susteren bashes the CBC’s Heather Mallick in a NEW video. (Kathy Shaidle blogs at FiveFeetOfFury. Mark Steyn has called her “one of the great virtuoso polemicists of our day.”)

That’s what blogger Bob Miller, Ph.D. (a retired U.S. Army major) says in a post that’s sure to provoke controversy and conversation. He’s put together a chart that weighs every President’s experience, from his military service and heroism to his time in public office. If he was a university president or a CEO, that counts […]

He’s only worked there for 143 days, but now he’s in line for CEO. In a couple of months, he could be your boss. Be honest, you ordinary Democrats out there. Really honest. What would you think? (Kathy Shaidle blogs at FiveFeetOfFury.com and Examiner.com)

Part of — alas — a continuing series… (Kathy Shaidle blogs at FiveFeetOfFury.com and is the new Examiner.com “Conservative Politics blogger, too)

Not as cool as his famous YouTube video (“You’re a thug. He’s a thug. Your boss is a thug…), free speech activist Ezra Levant’s new radio interview is still as entertaining, inspiring and educational as you’d expect. Among many other things, he discusses the Canadian pastor who’s just received a lifetime ban on quoting certain […]

“Trapped in an Orwellian nightmare, Canadian author Howard Rotberg struggles to clear his name.” Indeed, in a refreshing twist, Rotberg is suing his Muslim accusers and their corporate enablers. That he’s a budding author and those corporate enablers happen to be the nation’s monopoly bookstore chain makes his lawsuit doubly audacious.

After 900 days, and the work of 15 bureaucrats costing taxpayers an estimated $500,000, the case against the only publisher in the Western world charged for reprinting the Danish Mohammed cartoons has been dismissed. And Ezra Levant isn’t happy about it: The 11-page government report into my activities is a breathtakingly arrogant document. In it, […]

A few years back, Howard Rotberg was launching his new novel, The Second Catastrophe at a local bookstore. Some Muslim hecklers brought the event to a premature halt. Rotberg says a bookstore employee wearing a hijab did nothing to stop their outbursts. Then the bookstore chain issued a press release to the Toronto Star and […]

A Muslim immigrant named Mustafa Taj approached four teenagers at a subway station in Calgary [Alberta, Canada]. He demanded of them, “who’s Jewish?” When sixteen-year-old Nichola Cordata said “me”, Taj said “I’m Muslim and hate Jews” and slapped her face and pulled her hair. Cordata’s friends tried to help, and they were beaten, and one […]

Alas, if great prose was enough to destroy Canada’s corrupt “Human Rights” Commissions (coming soon to a country near you…), we’d have won the fight long ago. Here’s the Newfie Rhodes Scholar, Rex Murphy, slagging the latest outrageous case in his own inimitable way: Incidentally, what are the human-rights protocols governing stand-up comedians in their […]

Ezra Levant — the Canadian publisher sued by an imam for publishing the “Mohammed” cartoons — addressed the Congressional human rights caucus yesterday. Among other things, he advised them to put Canada on a watch list for human rights abusers, because of our censorious “Human Rights Commissions”, who’ve been going after everyone from Mark Steyn […]

The Canadian Human Rights Commission has dismissed the charges of “flagrant Islamophobia” against Mark Steyn, but we’re still awaiting the decision from the recent British Columbia trial. Here’s a great candid photo of Steyn celebrating (sort of) the decision. He’d really like to LOSE so they can take the case all the way to the […]

* Steyn’s accusers called a deconstructionist Buffy the Vampire Slayer scholar as an expert witness. * One of his accusers admitted under oath that he’d misrepresented his group’s initial demands to the media on numerous occasions. * Websites that linked to the “offending” Maclean’s article — including U.S.-based sites like Free Republic and Catholic Answers […]

Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine are accused of “flagrant Islamophobia”. The magazine will be live blogging their “hate speech” trial this Monday, beginning around 9:30 PST (from a west coast court house). Steyn will be there for most of the week and will no doubt post updates to his homepage. FreeMarkSteyn will serve as clearing […]

Well, I guess we all gotta read the thing, but… Unlike all the big shots quoted in the article, I’m as far from the Beltway as you can get. No wonder my analysis differs so much from their’s. Here’s the real problem with Establishment/Movement Conservatism: It refuses to address the very issues that working class […]

In the midst of this embarrassing, wrongheaded preemptive media eulogizing of Edward Kennedy, at least spare a thought for the woman he killed.

OK, that’s not saying too much, since the previous “greatest hour” was, by general consensus, The Trailer Park Boy’s Christmas Special… In less than a month, a quasi-judicial tribunal may order Canada’s oldest national newsweekly to run 5 pages of Islamist propoganda, because the magazine once printed an excerpt from Mark Steyn’s book America Alone. […]