In my latest National Post column I argue that the solution to toxic anger in politics, far easier said than done, is neither to cause nor succumb to it.
“Mr. [Mark] Kingwell’s jaundiced view is ultimately based on that non-existent wraith, ‘economic man,’ a lobotomized Scrooge on a shopping spree.”
Peter Foster in National Post February 12, 1999
“Two words: Ug Lee”
Teaser to feature on the Pontiac “Aztek” in Ottawa Citizen July 18, 2003 (which contained the more complete “’Two words describe its physical appearance – Ug Lee.’ John Heilig, Familycar.com.”)
In my latest National Post column I say the worst thing about the Liberals’ doctored video showing Erin O’Toole supporting more private options in health care is that there’s no way it could possibly be true.
“It is far more difficult to form an informed opinion about what is good for society as a whole than it is to determine where one’s self-interest lies.”
Judge Richard Posner, apparently in Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy, quoted in James Surowiecki The Wisdom of Crowds
In my latest Loonie Politics column I lament that far too many voters still believe politicians can shower them with free money and not germinating a nasty crop of debt and inflation instead of wealth and social services.
“It is not possible that assessment of the President’s performance be reduced to the question of how much money one makes or of unlimited availability of gasoline. Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of materialism.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at Harvard in 1978 (www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978)
“The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.”
David Starr Jordan (emailed by a friend and widely quoted online).