How do Canadian politicians and scholars feel about interventions in Afghanistan?

National Post reader Angelo Zenga generously nominated me for prime minister of Canada in a letter to the editor last week. I appreciate the compliment, butI'm not running.

The United States under Barack Obama and the Democrats is planning to spend astounding amounts of money--colossal amounts--and to pile up debt on a scale never previously contemplated in peacetime.

Canada held an election last Monday and the result was anything but boring. The headline story is that the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has headed minority governments since 2006, won an absolute majority of seats, 167 of 308, in the House of Commons. The Conservatives' triumph offers a couple of lessons that may be relevant to U.S. Republicans.

There will be catastrophic results for whichever party "wins" the parliamentary power play in Ottawa.

The Community Rights Counsel wants to put an end to university-based training programs.

The development of effective indigenous security forces is not an exit strategy. On the contrary, it is a recipe for staying a long, long time.

Yeltsin’s legacy--a distorted but functioning market economy, and a flawed but real multi-party democracy--appears impervious to the desperate thrashing about in the Kremlin.