“The oldest rule in economics, [U.S.] CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said on Tuesday, is ‘we cannot do everything.’”
Marcus Gee in Globe & Mail August 28, 2003
In my latest National Post column I say calls to make handguns illegal in a city in response to criminals using illegal handguns for illegal murders make no sense.
Employee: “Sorry about missing that meeting, sir. You must think I’m a complete idiot.”
Boss: “No, of course I don’t. You’re much too lazy to complete anything.”
"Real Life Adventures" cartoon in Montreal Gazette July 9, 2002
“Only God can fix prices”
“a hadith attributed to the Prophet” according to Bernard Lewis The Middle East: 2000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day (although he notes that it was frequently disregarded in practice with bad results)
In my latest BOE Report piece I say climate alarmists told us heat and drought would kill crops. But at the moment in North American cold and wet look like bigger problems. Does it mean we can finally admit the subject is complicated and that warmth isn’t all bad?
In my latest National Post column I say Andrew Scheer picked a terrible time to go mushy on deficits.