"It will not do to offer democracy, secularism and licentious living as an alternative to religious extremism. The answer to bad religion is good religion — to put it more elegantly, theology is required to answer the false claims of unreasonable religious positions."
Fr. Raymond J. De Souza in National Post January 31, 2008 (after favourably quoting George Weigel's claim that "It is thus a great folly to think that jihadism and the terrorism it underwrites can be understood in terms drawn primarily from the patois of the therapeutic society, as if jihadist terrorism were some Levantine form of psychiatric aberration. Within their own theological frame of reference and the reading of history it warrants, jihadists are not crazy. They make, to themselves, a terrible kind of sense.")
The book "A Right to Arms", companion volume to our 2016 documentary on Canadians' historic right to self-defence, is now available through my online store. Click here to order a copy.
In my latest Looniepolitics column I ask how we could so quickly have discarded the hard-won lessons of the 1990s about the dangers of government debt and deficits.
One speech by me and one by EEA chairman Danny Hozack in Kitscoty, Alberta on March 5 on rural crime, citizens, and possible responses. (Each is an hour or more.)
"Never take a trend out a window."
His longtime friend and advisor on statistics in social science William Fielding Ogburn, quoted by Robert Ardrey in The Territorial Imperative