by Howard Rotberg Mark Twain used to say, “"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Even if we keep that in mind, a study of Covid19 statistics should pose some very troubling questions, and even more troubling answers. The questions relate to the origins of the ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg In my 2003 novel, The Second Catastrophe: A Novel About a Book and its Author, a Canadian Jewish professor, son of a survivor of the Shoah, becomes obsessed with the idea that Iran is pursuing a Second Holocaust against the Jews, this time against the 6 million plus Jews of ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg The Macmillan Dictionary defines the verb to “honor” (spelled “honour” in Britain and Canada) as “to show your respect or admiration for someone, especially by giving them a prize or title, or by praising them publicly.” And so, George Floyd, whose adult life was spent in ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg Violence and looting, burning down stores, churches and small businesses, destroying statues and monuments, antagonism to the American Constitution and Bill of Rights, re-writing History and educational curricula to make America an immoral presence in world history, rather than ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg Some folks know me as a retired lawyer, having been very involved in my community. Other folks may know me for my conversions of unwanted heritage buildings into affordable rental housing for modest income working people, in various cities - which was actual “social justice” ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg Have you noticed how various media are using the term “racialized” more often? Have you noticed that there is a lot of advocacy on the need to give special benefits, protections or privileges to “racialized” people? What does that mean? And aren’t we supposed to act as individuals ...Read More...

Featuring Diane Bederman, journalist, author, chaplain, and blogger, and Howard Rotman, lawyer, author, and publisher of Mantua books. ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg Psychological Projection, according to UrbanDictionary.com, is “An unconscious self-defence mechanism characterized by a person unconsciously attributing their own issues onto someone or something else as a form of delusion and denial.” Former President Barack Obama delivered ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg What we have now in the West are a lot of childiren who have never grown up. They are promised by the Leftist-Islamist-Globalist alliance that Mommy and Daddy (big government) will always protect them even from their own actions by forgiving student loans, providing safe spaces ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg “(A)lways there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless” - George Orwell, 1984 The United States and its ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg European nations do not have a good history when it comes to dealing with their Jews. I find that even today, Europe is being less than helpful to its own Jews and to those Jews living in the Jewish State of Israel. With respect to its own Jews, what were Europeans thinking ...Read More...

Did you ever wonder how Israel ended up without the Temple Mount when the rest of Jerusalem was won back in the defensive war of 1967? by Howard Rotberg Here is chapter 6 of my book, Tolerism: the Ideology Revealed (available on Amazon if you want to read more) explaining what happened and ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg In 1943 to 1945, Hitler’s costly obsession with killing every last Jew in Europe took precedence over military and economic basic needs in wartime. There came a point in the course of the war, when the resources used in rounding up and murdering European Jewry could have been ...Read More...

by Howard Rotberg In a world where cultural and moral relativism seem to demand that we should tolerate and respect every culture and every belief system equally, Canadian Remembrance Day and the U.S Veterans Day have more and more become the last bastion of traditional patriotism as a key value ...Read More...