Author: Kathy Shaidle

Let’s review: – The 700 Club has approximately 850,000 viewers – The population of the United States of America is 300 million – Do the math Pat Robertson’s continued high profile has everything to do with the liberal mainstream media’s religious illiteracy and its need for a cartoon character to represent those “Evil Right Wing […]

Wish I’d said this: “…in recent years, I’ve pretty much concluded that had men become extinct the day after Henry Ford launched his first production line, we’d still be driving Model T’s. “Though for certain, they’d come in more colours than black.” Update: (Hawkins’ Note: For the record, I don’t agree that we should repeal […]

Rather’s investigating Canada’s poorest neighborhood — Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside — to expose the tax-payer sponsored needle exchanges, public drunkenness and prostitution that’s on display just a block or two from 5-star hotels. Why? Cuz Vancouver’s hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics, don’t ya know. (Maybe Van could just invent new events, like Run the Junkie Gauntlet, […]

A few Canadian columnists who deserve higher profiles: Tolkien biographer Michael Coren, whose high media profile means he has the dubious distinction of getting more death threats than anyone on this list. His latest column is on the Portland middle school/birth control controversy. Erudite polymath and poet George Jonas, author of Reflections on Islam. RWN […]

Canada: the canary in the cultural coal mine. A banana republic with snow. Here’s what been going on up here this week. It matters because it could happen to you. He headed to Gatineau Memorial Hospital, thinking that doctors would soon figure out what was ailing him and take care of it. He never imagined […]

Canada: the canary in the cultural coal mine. A banana republic with snow. Here’s what been going on up here this week. It matters because it could happen to you. He headed to Gatineau Memorial Hospital, thinking that doctors would soon figure out what was ailing him and take care of it. He never imagined […]

Prompted by “Frost-aquiddick”, I posted my thoughts on “poverty” — that is, that true poverty doesn’t exist in America, if the Frost family is the best example of same that the Democrats could cook up, in a nation of 300 million. Mark Steyn called the post “brilliant,” while obscure lefty bloggers diagnosed me as “fat, […]

My blog, RelapsedCatholic, turns seven this summer. I’ve been provoking, amusing and offending my fellow Canadians (not to mention a lot of Americans) since 2000 — but alas, the real badge of “success” up here eludes me: still no ominous letter from the Human Rights Commission (which exists solely to bankrupt other outspoken, politically incorrect […]