They are taking us farther and farther from our peace-keeping past. Reece I am sure Israel had about 100% to do with that. Israel is great at meddling in other

By the CNN Wire Staff February 20, 2012 -- Updated 0114 GMT (0914 HKT) Murdoch charm offensive: Sun on Sundays STORY HIGHLIGHTS A Sunday edition of Britain's best-selling newspaper will launch next week The Sun has been involved in a broad police investi

The recent Obama mandate for universal birth control gave the Republicans an opportunity to fight for individual liberty -- and they missed it by a mile. Instead of attacking government-imposed health care as a violation of liberty, they only selected a

For most of its history of nearly 90 years, Time magazine has been a staple for the smug, clichéd, only-in-America, lumpen bourgeoisie; the Mencken-roasted, Lucian masses always ready to believe that if it's American it must be the best, and if it's happ

VANCOUVER - Serial killer Robert Pickton began his murder spree in 1991, a police team commander told the Missing Women inquiry today. "The first time he killed was 1991," Don Adam testified. "He was a fully functioning serial killer since 1995." Adam, w

The Toronto nightlife scene is losing a legend: Bistro 990, one of Yorkville’s longest-standing institutions, is set to close. General manager Victor Magalhaes confirmed yesterday that “the building has been bought, but the business has not.” The new own

Murray Hoult Pollitt was a stock broker, entrepreneur and adviser to Canada’s financial elite. Raised in the entourage of some of Canada’s wealthiest and most powerful families – he was the nephew of Bud McDougald and grew up near Conrad Black – Pollitt

The persecution of Christians, particularly in Islamic countries, and the indifference of Western elites (particularly the Obama administration which, as Ed Whelan observes, cavalierly adopts the rhetoric of war in its campaign against believing Christia

Conrad Black notes that 100,000+ Christians are annually murdered for their faith: Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. A comprehensive Pew Forum study last year found that Christians are persecuted

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has come in for some criticism for telling an Egyptian television network that as Egypt devises a new constitution, it should not look to the Constitution of the United States to provide whatever protection for h

Mayor Rob Ford talks transit with Ryerson student Shirley Wednesday night after council voted to overhaul the city's transit plan. Rather than mope after the vote, Ford took a ride out to Kennedy station on the subway. “I want people to know we haven’t g

Leo Strine is probably about as close as you can get to a rock star in the world of corporate law. His official title is Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery. What that really means is that he is the chief justice of the trial-level or motions-le

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Worms turn, it seems, even for guys who never met a prosecution they didn't adore. All it took was Conrad Black's book and some serious rhetorical effort by National Review pundit, and former SDNY assistant Andrew McCarthy to come to the realization that

Deposed press lord Conrad Black is taking a public stand against the law enforcement and corporate-governance authorities that put him behind bars. [Andrew McCarthy/The New Criterion, earlier] You can use these HTML tags and attributes: Get your copy tod

Increasingly [the] “rule of law” is just Big Government’s version of “social justice.” Heroes and villains are assigned their fates in accordance with the vanguard’s transgressive obsessions: income inequality, race, anti-Americanism, etc. The laws, rule

How about tobacco?” The question was really a proposed assignment. By then, I had spent many years prosecuting monstrous criminals. A parade of tobacco execs did not seem to me to fit that bill, even if they’d had the temerity to eschew a treacly show of

In the latest edition of The New Criterion, I reviewed , which I described as Conrad Black’s “often gripping memoir of his nightmarish trek through America’s justice system and business governance culture — a system that can work grave injustice, a cultu

MONTREAL — A week before launch, Huffington Post Quebec has lost at least nine high-profile contributors — intellectuals, leftist activists and politicians — who'd agreed to blog but have now pulled out over concerns they'd be writing for free. Amir Khad