The Democrats lost ground in the polls with the House hearings, with fewer favouring impeachment and more opposing it as the process unfolded by Conrad Black Given the almost total failure of the Canadian media to overcome their stylistic distaste for U.S. President Donald Trump, and the recently ...Read More...

With his leadership, an alliance built to contain Communism is facing the new threats created by its demise. by Conrad Black As the Democrats toil to make their impeachment effort look like something other than a partisan smear job and legal scam, President Trump is at the NATO leaders’ meeting ...Read More...

Canada would make an important contribution to the world if it proposed serious reforms to the UN, tying voting rights to respect for defined human rights by Conrad Black From all accounts, the great foreign policy effort of the semi-re-elected federal government is to win a two-year term ...Read More...

He isn’t really running for president; he’s running for secretary of state. by Conrad Black The entry of Michael Bloomberg into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is not, I think, exactly what it seems. The claim and assumption is that Bloomberg became alarmed at the stumbling ...Read More...

I am not trying to twist the IPCC’s meaning. It clearly acknowledges that an acceleration (and a slight acceleration at that) in global warming is not certain and if it occurs at all, it will not be solely due to human activities. by Conrad Black The Green Terror grips Canada. Everyone can ...Read More...

Only extremely grave offenses should deprive Americans’ right to choose their president. Nixon didn’t meet the impeachment bar. Neither does Trump. by Conrad Black One thing that will quite possibly be achieved by the nonsensical impeachment investigation being conducted in the House of Representatives ...Read More...

In both Quebec and Alberta, irritation with overbearing federalism and the promise of a better fiscal regime could combine to feed secessionist sentiment. by Conrad Black My dear and esteemed friend of more than 50 years, Peter White, wrote in the Globe and Mail on Nov. 9 of the dangers to ...Read More...

When it comes to the Brexit entanglement, Boris Johnson is the man the United Kingdom required to slice this Gordian Knot. by Conrad Black The United Kingdom election on Dec. 12 will be of great importance to the Western world. The departure of the U.K. from the European Union will be like ...Read More...

The U.S.-led alliance has been very successful for most of a century. Now what? by Conrad Black It is a bit rich to hear French president Emmanuel Macron announce that NATO is suffering “a brain death” because of “a lack of American commitment.” France has allowed her armed forces to dwindle ...Read More...

Fifty years ago, the president mapped out a future that could well have saved South Vietnam from Communism. by Conrad Black There has been some comment about the 50th anniversary, this past Sunday, of Richard Nixon’s appeal to the “Silent Majority” of Americans to support his policy of handing ...Read More...

by Conrad Black It is painful to take issue with my blessed friend Peggy Noonan, and also painful to read both that she has effectively joined the disreputable impeachers of Donald Trump and has invoked a disingenuous argument in support of that position. Writing in the Wall Street Journal ...Read More...

If the government does not become serious about the attraction and retention of capital, and competitive tax rates, the climate in this country will certainly change, but not meteorologically by Conrad Black The Hon. Sydney Fisher, left, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and William Lyon Mackenzie King are ...Read More...

All but the most committed Trump haters have grown tired of the spurious investigation and its unvarnished bias against the president. by Conrad Black You may read it here first: This sordid, contemptible impeachment ruse is finally disintegrating. It was another fraud, and I predict that ...Read More...

He won on momentum, a fading illusion of fashion, faddish platitudes and style, and no first-term accomplishments at all. by Conrad Black It would have been difficult to produce a more miserable election result. Congratulations to the prime minister on his re-election, certainly. He was spiritedly ...Read More...

What FDR, Churchill, and Stalin agreed to at Tehran is still visible in Europe 76 years later. by Conrad Black Last Sunday’s Fox News program Special Report, on the Tehran Conference of 1943 (about which their news anchor, Bret Baier, has just published a book), revisited the postwar division ...Read More...