“Nearly every line he penned was an invitation to slumber.”

Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything (about “Geological writer James Hutton”)

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say if heads don’t roll over the latest revelations from the Mass Casualty Commission then we have pretty much given up on truth and decency.

“paring knives that were duller than a throne speech…”

Bruce Ward in Ottawa Citizen December 27, 2002

“Economists... conducted an experiment at a poor, minority school district near Chicago where they randomly assigned some teachers to receive end-of-year bonuses based on student improvement, while other teachers received upfront bonuses that could be revoked at the end of the year if student improvement was below average.... the only difference was the timing of the bonus. There were ‘large and statistically significant gains’ on math test scores when bonuses were paid upfront, but not when bonuses were paid at the end of the year.... the prospect of having to give back money they had already received was more motivating for teachers than the prospect of getting money.”

The Boston Globe, reprinted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail August 7, 2012

In my latest Epoch Times column I denounce the Canadian Forces’ proposed plan for military chaplains as an Orwellian project in which uniformity is diversity, exclusion is inclusion and freedom is slavery.

In my latest National Post column I ask whether Canadians will yet again excuse a pathetic performance by an elite institution because we are snobs.

“A classic vacuous nemesis of the Fifties was the young, progressive Dean of women who was brought in to replace the septuagenarian, traditional dean of women… who had all the give-and-take of Torquemada…”

Florence King in National Review July 12, 1999

In my latest National Post column I say the increasingly obvious crumbling of key public institutions in Canada is proof that social justice is as antisocial as it is unjust.