Political parties require talented and accomplished candidates. Why then did the Conservative Party of Canada disallow Salim Mansur to represent the party in London North Centre? Mansur is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, a newspaper columnist, a full-throated opponent of radical Islam, and a devout Muslim. Writing in the Post Millennial, Cosmin Dzsurdza unpacks the timorous thinking behind the party leadership’s decision and tells why ditching Mansur bodes ill for the upcoming election and future recruitment of Conservative candidates.
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.
