"Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his 1983 Templeton Address re the disastrous history of Russia in the 20th century, quoted in Philip Yancey Soul Survivor

In my latest National Post column I say the debate on niqabs ultimately hinges on what human beings are, that they should have rights... or not.

“Dreadful as it was, I count it a mercy that the climax was reached so quickly.... It was upon us before we realized it. There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life."

Dr. Petrie’s internal monologue in Sax Rohmer The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu 

In my latest MercatorNet piece I say that having it all at someone else's expense just isn't fair.

With regret I have decided no longer to contribute my “It Happened Today” pieces to Rebel Media.

I very much appreciate what Ezra Levant and others in the organization have done to challenge conventional wisdom and defy political correctness and am grateful for the opportunity to be part of it. But I now find the tone too unconstructive and think The Rebel has drifted too far from its mission of covering the news from a refreshing perspective.

If you enjoy the “It Happened Today” feature please contribute on my website if you are not already a backer and we will continue to publish them.
 

"Truth is not only stranger, but much more blood-curdling than fiction."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Dec. 31 1921, quoted in “Chesterton Rewrites more of the Classic Lines” in Gilbert Magazine July-August 20077-8/07 p. 37

In my latest National Post column I say you don't get the poor nice things, including trendy ones like organic food, by price controls that crush entrepreneurs.

Queen Victoria: "You are a genius.” Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann: "Perhaps, Your Majesty, but before that I was a drudge."

Clifton Fadiman, ed, The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes