The House of Substance

I just did not know: As the Libertarian Party candidate for the Toronto riding of Trinity-Spadina in Monday’s vote, Chester Brown didn’t pla...

The WikiLeaked embarrassments continue: OTTAWA — A U.S. Embassy official studying at the University of Ottawa apparently experienced first-h...

What is the root word of "dignitary" anyhow? The Vatican yesterday said it had "nothing to hide" after it emerged that Z...

Canadian election discussion. My guys are doing absurdly well in popularity polls. I don't believe it'll translate to the amount ...

Instaputz: WOW: Sarah Palin is a lot better looking than Julianne Moore. I wouldn’t have guessed that. What’s with those protruding teet...

Veronique de Rugy: My colleague Matt Michell sends me this remarkable chart courtesy of Catherine Rampell of Economix. It is from a new book...

I don't really have much to add to this column by Ben Shapiro except that I wish all right-wing writing could be so clearly spiteful. ...

Christian Schneider: Yesterday, public-library officials in New York City made official what we all knew what was coming: They declared watc...

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Intrepid searchers at last understand my talent: Well okay, "intrepid searcher" meaning no plural, but word will get around. In a...

Brent Bozell: For the Christian faithful, the week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday is sacred. It’s a time of reflection and prayer and...

An interesting story: For nearly three decades, [Mark] Landis has visited ­museums across the US in various guises and tried to donate paint...

Someone has made a film! Cliff Elliot is close to getting his Eagle Scout award, a promise he made to his late father. His eagle project inc...

Yes yes, the power of dumb. How droll. I still really like ol' Ethel: Bonus excuse generation template: Were those ACME™ Unpredictable ...

Via Roy I am led to something that makes me far more furious than it should. Fortunately we here at Substance Labs™ have been working on th...

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Someone is cranky: None of the characters expresses a hint of sympathetic human emotion — which is precisely the point. [Ayn] Rand’s novels ...

TPM blew the headline, but Josh Marshall is never funny.

It used to be that American talking points would take around six months to make their way into the Canadian discourse. These days, of cours...