"A penny saved is a little piece of copper that stays in your pocket for 10 hours."

From a list of maxims in Globe and Mail Nov. 29, 2001 sent by Nicola Gilman’s Grade 3 class at Calgary Montessori School

"Few human acts are so difficult as to say mea culpa, to face facts when they conflict with long-held philosophical views. People will do so only when they suffer severe personal injury if they persist in error. That is why businessmen, who may be bankrupted if they refuse to face facts, are one of the few groups that develop the habit of doing so."

Milton Friedman’s Preface to William Simon A Time for Truth p. xiii.
 

In my latest National Post column I say the European Union forcing Uber into the taxi company mold is bad for consumers, whose interests are once again forgotten.

"You can’t have both the penny and the bun."

David Warren in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 25, 2006

"Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heroes. They don’t usually mean to be, but that’s their problem, not ours."

P.J. O’Rourke Eat the Rich p. 245.

In my latest Looniepolitics column I say Trudeau's increasingly bizarre and obvious missteps on trade are connected to his conceited geopolitical cluelessness.

In my latest National Post column I say we need to be far more alert about online security, and demand that our governments take it seriously too.