Boycott Chicken! by Wayne Northey

Sometimes the most obvious things are hardest to see.  That President Bush is a tyrant, for instance. In Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, the movie ends with Moore’s agreeing finally with the President who said: “There’s an old saying in Tennessee. I know...

A Modest Proposal Lite by Wayne Northey

In Western civilization, logic and ethics are usually mutually exclusive, while ideology and ethics are invariably bedfellows. Take Michael Ignatieff for instance, a great Canadian intellectual and current Liberal Party leadership hopeful. He salutes the United States...

Christians: Don’t You Just Love to Hate Them?

I’m glad in our apoplectic politically correct world it’s still open season on Christians.  Jews, Aboriginals, Blacks, etc. – not a chance!  But Christians! Problem is – I am one.  But not one of those! (Bruce *censored*burn).  Fact is, I applaud...

Kingergarten Again by Wayne Northey

If I could be in Mr. Bush’s and Mr. Blair’s press corps, I’d ask just one question!  It is one simple question:  Just what about Articles 2, 3 and 30 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights do you not understand?: Article 2 Everyone is...

Violence Renounced

Violence Renounced: René Girard, Biblical Studies and Peacemaking, Edited by Willard M. Swartley, Telford, PA: Pandora Press, 2000, 343 pages. By Wayne Northey “René Girard is, in my opinion, the most significant theorist of violence in the twentieth century (p....