"Your sheep’s clothing is slipping."

Eric Ambler, The Intercom Conspiracy, quoted as one of the "Top Ten Detective Fiction Wise Cracks" compiled by "Gramps" in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 #6 Issue 15 (April/May 1999)

In my latest National Post column, I say the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse enters dangerous, familiar territory when it starts telling the Catholic Church what it should think.

In my latest National Post column I ridicule our governments' conviction that legalizing marijuana is yet another opportunity to overtax and overregulate us instead of just leaving us alone.

"It is really a strange thing that there should not be room enough in the world for men to live, without cutting one another’s throats."

George Washington, in W.B. Allen, ed., Washington: A Collection

"What beats me is how any body of men can delude themselves into thinking that they can abolish war as an instrument for settling international disputes. No sane person wants wars; that is a recognized fact, but we have them just the same. No one wants jails, hospitals, insane asylums, murders, robberies, etc.; but we have them just the same. Why? Well, in my opinion it can be given in just two words – human nature, a condition which is the same today as it was when Noah built the Ark, as it was when Julius Caesar enlarged the Roman Empire, and as it was when the Princess Pats marched down Bank street, many years ago, on their way overseas."

Letter from a G.H. Giles of Ottawa in Ottawa Citizen Sept. 4, 1931, reprinted in Ottawa Citizen Oct. 19, 1999

In my latest National Post column I say the mass shooting at a Texas church does not validate arguments for gun control.