A deer left to age out in the woods, explains Sebastian Morello in The European Conservative, loses its teeth and dies in excruciating pain from undigested food, parasites or over-eager scavengers. A quick, clean death from hunting – “stalking” as the Scots call it – is far more merciful. But stalking is itself dying a slow, agonizing death in Great Britain due to the rise of “sentimentalism” – a self-righteous but counterfeit emotion driven by narcissism.
Blueprint for Alberta?
Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
