"If significant numbers of Canadians or Poles become disillusioned with their countries, well, it's not healthy or desirable (nor would it demonstrate clear thinking about the alternatives), but it's not a threat to national existence." It seems to me that if about 5% more of Quebec's voters had become dissolutioned before the last referendum, Canada as we know it would not exist any more.

Usually, Ann has been a stout defender of "the constitution means what it says" school of thought. What part of "All persons" is ambiguous? To be sure, there is a school of constitutional interpretation which permits courts to ignore the plain language of the constitution. It is known as the "living constitution" school. Ann purports to hate it.

"Gilder boldly declares that Jewish genius laid the foundation for winning the Second World War and for the post-war prosperity that followed. Jewish refugees from Hitler's Europe provided much of the brainpower for the Manhattan Project. And Jewish geniuses including Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Heinrich Hertz, John von Neumann, Richard Feynman, and entrepreneurs like Andy Grove made indispensable contributions to the information technology that forms the scaffolding of modern prosperity."

Ironically, Joseph Goebbels agreed with Gilder. In explaining the German defeat in the closing days of WWII, he noted that Germany simply had not been strong enough to resist the overwhelming power of the international Jewish conspiracy.