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Beijing keeps tabs on Chinese Canadians

Copper wins- Congrats!

Why would they want to get rid of a dedicated ,honest civil servant who thought his job meant protecting Canadians?

"This month Judge Sean Harrington condemned Read for “a lack of loyalty to the government,” reaffirmed his firing and effectively took away the brave Mountie‘s pension and benefits.

There was no mention anywhere in the judgment that what Read and others around him were trying to do years ago was prescient and that their warnings had become the alarming realities of today.

In the wake of recent claims by top Chinese defectors that Beijing has thousands of spies in Canada, Prime Minister Paul Martin has vowed that he will take tough measures to protect our national interests.

We can only conclude that this involves shooting the messenger and destroying the lives of Canadians brave enough to speak out."

Michael Yon reporting from Baghdad............

While Americans are enjoying their July 4th festivities, don't forget...............

Lots of talent, good intentions - but it might be better

if they got the G8 to provide more accountability of where the aid money is going. What's the point of providing new money when it is diverted to offshore bank accounts or for weapons. The G8 should make sure the money gets to those that need it , instead of those who are the greediest.Pouring good money after bad doesn't make sense unless there is accountability on the ground to make sure it is used properly.That would seem to be the logical first step.Markets should be opened up to their products and investment into sustainable industries while meeting the food and emergency needs seems to be the way to go.Good governance should be rewarded instead of totalitarian regimes.

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Michelle Malkin doesn't mince words

In their brilliant book "One Nation Under Therapy," Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel diagnosed the public school's pacifist pathology dead on: "American children badly need moral clarity. But our education establishment is too uneasy about the idea of moral judgment to meet this elementary need. Feelings of helplessness and disorientation are thoroughly, even compulsively, canvassed, elicited, discussed and promoted; by contrast, feelings of moral indignation and condemnation are deflected and downplayed. This leaves children defenseless, clueless and unprepared to meet real and grave threats to their own and the nation's future."
Just what we need to combat throat-slitting, suicide plane-flying Islamists: young eunuchs swaying to moldy old folk music while their "Peace Place" signs flap in the wind. "

Victor Hanson- real lesson of Viet Nam

There are lessons here. When the United States has stayed on after fighting dictatorial enemies -- admittedly for decades in Italy, Germany, Japan, Korea and the Balkans -- progress toward democracy and prosperity ensued. Disengagement from unresolved messy problems -- whether from Europe after World War I, Vietnam in 1973, Beirut after the Marine barracks bombings, Afghanistan after the Soviet defeat, or Iraq in 1991 -- only left murderous chaos or the "peace" of dictators. ......

Border Patrol agents wounded