‘Supermom’ increasingly considered unrealistic: LONDON — The enthusiasm for juggling high-powered careers and motherhood is on the slide in Britain and the United States as support for stay-at-home moms appears to be growing, a major study showed yesterday. The study, by Jacqueline Scott from the University of Cambridge, suggests that growing numbers of people are …
Monthly Archives: August 2008
When winning means losing
We are really awfully close to Newspeak around here, where government agencies claim you won even when you have, in fact, lost something. Talk about doubleplusungood. Ezra Levant: Some 900 days after I became the only person in the Western world charged with the “offence” of republishing the Danish cartoons of Muhammad, the government has …
He showed us the way
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead. While most of us will never come close to being as brave and unflinching as he was, we can all look to him for inspiration. The pen is not only mightier than the sword, it’s stronger than corrupt ideologies. Let us never forget that. [cross-posted to PWPL]
Language issues
I suppose linguistic kerfuffles are inevitable when you live in Canada. Or perhaps it’s something special to abortion-related matters, I don’t know. But I do find it difficult to believe how hard it is even to agree on the terms of reference to the debate. Like, what is an abortion? I’m reasonably new to this …