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One of the most familiar and beloved traditional Christmas carols was composed, or perhaps assembled is a better word, by three different people — English Methodist leader Charles Wesley, German composer Felix Mendelssohn, and English musician and organist William Hayman Cummings — over the course of 126 years. It did come eventually come together nicely, though: Tonight, the Choir of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral is joined by the organist, a small orchestra, and the congregation in a performance of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.
Since there’s no moratorium on news during the Christmas season, even on weekends, the comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

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  2. Here’s a good op-ed by Conservative Senator for Saskatchewan David Tkachuk, who shreds and pokes holes in Andrew Coyne’s coverage of the so-called Senate scandal.
    Well worth reading, especially if you’re sick of the anti-Conservative drum-beating, insinuation, and question-begging that Coyne increasingly masquerades as analysis.
    Don’t know what happened to Coyne. Did a group of Conservative MPs beat him up in a bar, or something?

  4. Re: St. Pauls ”Hark the Herald Angles Sing”
    Great performance–love the heavy set kid at 2:46

  8. The recent comments by industry minister John Moore are still in the news.
    Toronto Star, Saturday, Dec. 21. The newspaper’s publisher gets his two cents in (and it’s not worth any more than that).
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/12/20/the_harsh_spirit_of_ebenezer_scrooge_lives_on.html
    Moore’s question was: “is [it] always government’s job to be there to serve people their breakfast?”
    This is an important issue. Moore was correct, but unfortunately was pushed into an apology after the fact. The parasites of the left can’t abide anyone believing that government shouldn’t be responsible for everything and everyone in society because that would bring an end to their gravy train, so they squawked about it.
    Cruickshank: Moore’s words “sound more like what we hear from the large and growing number of Americans and Canadians who have drifted from right-wing conservatism into radical individualism and anti-government populism.”
    “Theirs is a world in which we don’t live our lives as caring neighbours and united citizens but as isolated, self-motivated, economic actors. Relationships are transactional in this world — not based on trust or tradition.”
    So a world in which we accept being taxed to ridiculous levels so that government and its parasites can waste half of it is one where we are “caring neighbours”, and one in which we demand accountability and responsibility and freedom to live our own lives is an example of nasty individualism?
    If not “self-motivated economic actors”, what on earth we supposed to be motivated by? Service to an all-powerful state?
    Relationships are transactional. Who wants to enter into a relationship of any kind with someone who doesn’t give something valuable back in trade? For friendships and romantic relationships, “trade” is emotional much more than economic, but it’s still a trade of value-for-value.
    Back to Moore: It’s the parents’ job to provide for their children, not the government’s. As government expands into every nook and cranny of public life, more and more of parents’ hard-earned tax money is wasted on vast numbers of unproductive, worthless wastrels within government. And that squandering of wealth is most destructive of the hopes and dreams of parents and their children for a bright future, and most responsible for poverty.
    I note the irony, however, that a “department of industry” is itself one of the worst offenders in this regard. Government cannot help the economy, because a well-functioning and productive economy requires the individual value-judgments regarding what to trade as its lifeblood, and coercive government action in place of the free choices of individual citizens is always a drain on the economy.
    I’ve often said that, to the leftists, a “citizen” is a person who, when the government says “Jump”, answers, “How high?” Cruickshank’s article merely reinforces that observation.
    The concept expressed by Moore should become a major talking point, because it goes to the heart of the question, What is the purpose of government?
    Like Mitt Romney’s 2012 American election campaign comment about the 47%, which was on the right track although not well expressed and certainly not well analyzed by anyone in the media on either side, it should become front and centre in public discourse about government and the economy.

  11. Yeah, but he nullified his perfectly sound rhetorical question about the government’s responsibility for serving breakfast with his spineless grovelling apology.
    But a signal example for the utopians in our midst who decry the lack of conservatism in political conservatives.

  12. From anti-Conservative lickspittle Glen McGregor’s news article in the Ottawa Citizen, titled “Conservative Party targets media again in latest fundraising pitches”:

    Conservatives seems (sic) to be taking its (sic) cues from Sun News Network, a TV channel with close ties to the governing party..

  13. GTA/TO News.
    “Strip clubs smell dollars”.
    …-
    “Brampton: Downed trees, power outages cause chaos in & around GTA”
    “CNews | Push is on for strip clubs to take advantage of Supreme Court ruling on prostitution”
    “Globe | Salvation Army band banned from Toronto’s Union Station”

  14. Democrat-supporting feminist Camille Paglia, appearing on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, addresses the Duck Dynasty uproar:

    “I speak with authority here, because I was openly gay before the ‘Stonewall rebellion,’ when it cost you something to be so. And I personally feel as a libertarian that people have the right to free thought and free speech.”

    “To express yourself in a magazine in an interview — this is the level of punitive PC, utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist, OK, that my liberal colleagues in the Democratic Party and on college campuses have supported and promoted over the last several decades. This is the whole legacy of free speech 1960’s that have been lost by my own party.”

    Later,

    “I think that this intolerance by gay activists toward the full spectrum of human beliefs is a sign of immaturity, juvenility..”

  15. Update: Neo-AGW PR. Good to excellent.
    NB: AGW KIlls.
    …-
    “Travel chaos in Ontario as massive ice storm knocks out power to 350,000 across province” (NP)
    …-
    “For global warming believers, 2013 was the year from Hell”
    “Almost everything that could go wrong did go wrong for the cause of global warming
    2013 has been a gloomy year for global warming enthusiasts.”
    http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/12/19/lawrence-solomon-for-global-warming-believers-2013-was-the-year-from-hell/

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