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Murphy: The poet and the pity of war

It is but three years from a hundred since the start of the First World War – a conflict that even now staggers in the scale of its slaughter – millions dead – and the unspeakable  conditions under which it … Continue reading

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Murphy: Ontario gets four more years of Father-Knows-Best (1)

The Ontario Liberal and Progressive Conservative parties just put on quite possibly the most boring election campaign in the history of the genre. To follow it with any extended attention was to risk floating into some limbo of unmixed tedium … Continue reading

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Murphy: Ahmadinejad gives the world a lesson in hatred (3)

Anti-Semitism is, as many have said, the oldest hatred. It loses no force from its venerability. Jew-hatred forms the template on which so many other hatreds are based. It teaches that one’s enemies are vermin, fit for extermination. Those detested … Continue reading

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Murphy: Don’t do it

The darkly brilliant Ambrose Bierce once gave a collection of his brooding, sinister short stories the rhetorical title “Can Such Things Be?” When I read of Jean Chrétien, the all-time Rocky Balboa of the Liberal party, its most successful leader … Continue reading

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Murphy: Global warming runs out of gas (1)

For those who have a wish to hear the grating sound of a man distempered and frustrated that the cause for which he has given at least a decade of his time, the “greatest moral challenge of our time,” is … Continue reading

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Murphy: America destroying itself from within (4)

If America falls, it will not be from external enemies. It will be by her own hand. That is the inescapable conclusion one carries away from a reading of Reckless Endangerment, an account of the ferocious financial crisis that exploded … Continue reading

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Murphy: Newfoundland moose cull could help take the gas out of emissions

I have had reason, in an earlier column, to call attention to the extravagant growth of Newfoundland’s moose population. There is no question they are a randy bunch, as jaded as mink and as prolific as rabbits. In recent years, … Continue reading

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Murphy: Have we wasted the last 10 years in Afghanistan?

It used to be that the only purpose of war was victory. On Afghanistan, even after a decade of involvement there, that clarity is still not present. A mission that began in the fevered days after Osama bin Laden’s attack … Continue reading

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Murphy: Libya is a war, regardless of the rhetoric

It is difficult to think of Hillary Clinton as an avatar of George Bush, but there is no escaping the thought. Just this week, when Republicans in the U.S. Congress were voting on limiting the U.S.’s involvement in the current … Continue reading

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Murphy: Inviting the fox into the henhouse

One of the disturbing practices revealed by the great cache of emails out of the University of East Anglia -the so-called Climategate emails -was the attempted shortcutting or corruption of the oh-so precious peer-review process. The emails contained clear declarations … Continue reading

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Murphy: Danny Williams a modern day Joe Smallwood (2)

It is the highest sanity and not a little touch of class to know when to leave. There have been many in politics who found themselves, after much strife and Herculean effort, occupying the biggest chair only to learn that … Continue reading

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