“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it."
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men
In my latest National Post column I ask how Canadians are meant to understand their system of government when party leaders like Elizabeth May clearly don't.
In my latest National Post column I call the willingness even of a sizeable minority of Britons to vote for a Labour Party headed by the appalling Jeremy Corbyn a worrying sign of loss of the self-control on which self-government depends throughout the Western world.
In my latest National Post column I see worrying parallels between the federal Liberals and King James II on raising revenue without real Parliamentary consent.
"In their political arrangements, men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time. With regard to futurity, we are to treat it like a ward. We are not so to attempt an improvement of his fortune as to put the capital of his estate at risk." Edmund Burke An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs
In my latest National Post column I argue that forbidding "cultural appropriation" would stifle dialogue and sympathy.
In my latest column for the National Post, I say FBI director James Comey had to be fired for his series of bizarre missteps and flipflops on Hillary Clinton's email.