This blog had 37,163 visitors last month — thank you all for dropping by — and, of the 1,158 posts here, the following were the 20 most clicked-upon last month (date in brackets is the date item was first posted):

1. [What they said] Apple calculator a bad joke (Tue 10 ...   more »

Friend and former colleague Paul Wells celebrated the launch of his first book earlier this week. It’s called Right Side Up and is account of the fall of the Paul Martin and rise of Stephen Harper. Early on in the book, one of Harper’s closest friends, John Weissenberger, talks about ...   more »

“The right wing in America likes to think that the United States government was, at its inception, highly religious, specifically highly Christian, and even more specifically highly biblical. That was not true of that government or any later government—until 2000, when the fiction of the past became the reality of ...   more »

“In recent years, a continent born of immigrants — 1.75 million during Queen Victoria’s reign alone — has effectively redefined itself as the most excluding nation in the world toward refugees and asylum seekers. Its immigration policies in the last five years have become the envy of those in the ...   more »