“In his new memoirs, Decision Points, George W. Bush... tells of one summer job on a cattle ranch in which the foreman derided those who were ‘Book smart, sidewalk stupid.’"
William Watson in Ottawa Citizen December 7, 2010
“In his new memoirs, Decision Points, George W. Bush... tells of one summer job on a cattle ranch in which the foreman derided those who were ‘Book smart, sidewalk stupid.’"
William Watson in Ottawa Citizen December 7, 2010
In my latest National Post column I say it's easy to criticize Trump's immigration policy, hard to improve on it, and fatuous to do only the easy part
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the CAQ lead in Quebec polls shows, once again, widespread public discontent with politics and government as usual.
"The history of the earth! Doth it present anything but crimes of the most heinous nature, committed from one end of the world to the other?"
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. Letters from an American Farmer [prompted by American slavery].
"To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable. Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature....Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind."
Alexander Hamilton, "Founders' Quote Daily" November 23, 2005 from Federalist.com.