"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."

Theodore Roosevelt (when he was New York City Police Commissioner)

In my latest National Post column I say Canadian politicians, and many voters, are dangerously out of touch with basic economic realities.

In its annual report Freedom House had rated 81 of the world’s countries as providing a high degree of individual liberty. "It is not an accident that a majority of the citizens in 74 of those countries are Christians."

Paul Marshall, a Canadian political scientist and senior fellow with the Centre for Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C., quoted in British Columbia Report April 5, 1999

In a Financial Post column today I say the Supreme Court's ruling in the "case of beer" a.k.a. R. v. Comeau is not only ill-timed and legally illogical, it's post-truth.

In my latest Looniepolitics column I say the Ontario Liberals may be desperate but it's not why they're running an ugly campaign.

"In his 1906 Recollections of 13 Presidents, John Sergeant Wise, who had met Pierce, tells of the reaction of a lifelong acquaintance of Pierce’s when he learned the man had won the presidency. ‘Now Frank’s a good fellow, I admit,’ the elderly man said, ‘and I wish him well. He made a good state’s attorney, thar’s no doubt about that, and he made a far judge, thar’s no denying that, and nobody kain’t complain of him as a congressman. But when it comes to the whole Yewnited States, I dew say that in my jedgement Frank Pierce is agoin’ to spread durned thin.'"

Cynthia Crossen in James Taranto and Leonard Leo, eds., Presidential Leadership