by Charley James
For as long as anyone can remember, Canada has been the world’s warm-hearted, generous friend.
When Mao’s millions were on the long march, Canadian physician Dr. Norman Bethune went to China to care for the sick, wounded and disabled making the trek, regardless of their politics. Because British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery used Canadian [...]

by Charley James
According to a BBC news report, last week in Kabul “an American service member and an Afghan police officer got into an argument because the American was drinking water in front of the Afghan police, who are not eating or drinking … because of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan … (The policeman) [...]

by Charley James
Anyone who’s been to Afghanistan knows that its eastern mountains bordering Pakistan are filled with countless box canyons from which the only way out is the same way you came in. They’re deadly – Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire in this nightmarish geography – because it’s easy for insurgents to rain [...]

by Charley James
(Many of us have been privileged to call Charley a colleague and it is my deep honour to call him my friend. Perhaps you, dear reader, will now also understand the source of his fierce urgency of now within each of his postings after reading this. -Ed.)
By this time last November, I’d already [...]

by Charley James
I just saw The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 remake at a cut rate, neighbourhood theatre so I could better understand the inevitable sequel, The Putting Back of Pelham 1-2-3 Right Where It Belongs, and to compare it with the 1974 original, which spelled out the numbers in the title because audiences had longer [...]

by Charley James (A continuing series since Sarah Palin long ago crashed the GOP Party and ship of state last November. -Ed.)
Thanks to a friend at an on-line book seller, on Friday morning a courier delivered a preview copy of Going Rogue, Sarah Palin’s latest gyration in her bizarre, on-going odyssey into fringe folk-lore, self-promotion, [...]

by Charley James
It was bound to happen sooner or later to poor Erick Erickson.
He runs the fringe, right-wing website RedState.com and, after 10 months of increasingly pulsating throbs like a character in an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon at every move the Obama Administration has made, Friday morning Erickson’s head absolutely exploded.
Why?
Because the Obama Administration has [...]

We’ll take as a given that Glenn Beck is crazy, in the same league as Michele Bachman and people who show up at police stations wearing aluminium foil hats demanding the cops make Martians stop beaming radio signals into their head.

Who besides Beck would invite PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk on television to join him in criticising Nobel Prize winning former Vice President Al Gore

by Charley James
Six months ago, in a long-forgotten article, I quoted a Cleveland physician complaining that health care reform will cut his income so sharply he will be forced to curb his lush standard of living.
… a physician acquaintance in Ohio who is a highly regarded specialist with a seven figure income … complains to [...]

by Charley James
Thanks to the movie website Corona Coming Attractions, there’s an advance review of the new film Fair Game, based on the book by Valerie Plame, the CIA case officer who was “outed” by the Bush Administration when her husband called the president a liar in The New York Times in July, 2003, for [...]