"Symbolism and ritual keep things much simpler than they would otherwise be."
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News April 14, 1906, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #3 (Dec. 2002).
In my latest Looniepolitics column I say cowardice plays a surprisingly large role in our political troubles.
"Truth unasserted is a lie unopposed."
George Jonas in the National Post Dec. 11, 2010
In my latest National Post column I ask what a government is even for if legal permission for the Kinder Morgan pipeline project doesn't mean it's possible to build it.
"As one writer put it in the Wall St. Journal, when cowards ascend to positions of leadership, their character is revealed. They panic in a crisis. They don’t know what to do."
R. Cort Kirkwood in Ottawa Sun Dec. 20, 1998