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Dr Sanity outlines the evolution of leftist strategy. Read the whole thing.

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference, a bloc of 57 Muslim states, has announced plans to establish its own “independent” human tights commission. This is the same bunch of tyrants that wants to outlaw criticism of Islam around the world. Eklemeddin İhsanoğlu, the OIC Secretary-General, stressed in a statement Monday that “human rights and man’s [...]

Government threatens a citizen who cleaned up a local eyesore, proving once again that no good deed shall go unpunished. An old story, I know, but it never fails to outrage. Every spring since 2001, Gaston Soucy of Hartlen Point, Nova Scotia, has been cleaning up wind-blown litter from a vacant lot near his home.  [...]

The Tyranny of Nice in the UK. Renowned political philosopher Kenneth Minogue remarks on a paradox at the heart of contemporary British society. For many years, government policies and public institutions have been based on compassion, empathy, and concern; yet, increasingly, the result is a society manifesting the opposite qualities—indifference, lawlessness, and violence. Young offenders [...]

Yesterday, Archbishop of York John Sentamu decried public intolerance toward Christians and cited as a recent example the threatened disciplinary action against school receptionist Jennie Cain for asking friends to pray for her and her five-year-old daughter. Now several more Church of England bishops have done the same. The Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Rev [...]

Earlier this week, a council in the north of England removed a Christian woman from the roster of approved foster parents after a 16-year-old Muslim girl in her care converted to Christianity and was baptized. It is now alleged that the girl went into foster care after her father physically assaulted her and threatened that [...]

Britain’s spineless government [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW6PRABq4HM[/youtube] Dutch MP banned from Britain Labour minister praises Muslims because “secular commentators are afraid to criticise them.” “Freedom go to hell” and other choice slogans. When the original screening was cancelled Lord Ahmed told the Pakistani press it was “a victory for the Muslim community”. Fitna the movie PLEASE SIGN THE [...]

You can tell that Edward Keenan is a leftist because he lists Noam Chomsky as a “great thinker”, but he nevertheless agrees with Mark Steyn that the right of free speech is essential for democracy. [T]he point of Steyn’s testimony to the hearing — echoing the sentiments of great thinkers throughout history including Voltaire, George [...]

In his testimony to the Ontario parliament on Monday afternoon, Mark Steyn accused the province’s Human Rights Tribunal of ignoring honour killings.  When Toronto Sun columnist Christina Blizzard asked Barbara Hall, Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC), to comment about that, she received a troubling response. It was her response to Steyn’s [...]

Ted Kindos, owner of Gator Ted’s Tap and Grill in Burlington, Ontario, asked Steve Gibson not to smoke marijuana at the front door of his establishment.  Mr Gibson, who has received medical authorisation to be a pothead, complained to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, which found Mr Kindos guilty of discriminating against a disabled person. [...]

Another outrageous act of official discrimination against Christians in the United Kingdom. A council in the north of England has removed a Christian woman from the roster of approved foster parents after a 16-year-old Muslim girl in her care converted to Christianity. The woman has taken care of more than 80 children in ten years [...]

The British Columbia College of Teachers began a a long-running campaign of professional persecution against school teacher Chris Kempling after he wrote letters to a local newspaper opposing normalisation of homosexuality. He was cited for misconduct and suspended in 2002. He initiated a legal challenge of the College’s actions, but the BC Court of Appeal [...]

The Japanese government maintains that, because it pays for citizens’ health care, it must monitor everyone’s diet and lifestyle and correct those who may impose “excessive” costs on the system. Imagine a country where the government regularly checks the waistlines of citizens over age 40. Anyone deemed too fat would be required to undergo diet [...]

Peter Hitchens is outraged by the “child welfare” authorities who ordered two young children taken away from their grandparents and given to a homosexual couple for adoption. People in Western societies were encouraged to show tolerance for homosexuals, but now we are being tyrannised into giving approval. For objecting to having their grandchildren adopted by [...]

Europhile Conservative MP Ken Clarke was only this month elevated to the Shadow Cabinet, but already a major rift has emerged between him and party leader David Cameron.  Mr Cameron has pledged to introduce pro-marriage tax reforms, but Mr Clarke dismisses that as “social engineering”. “My view of Conservatism is that it’s not for us [...]