In my latest National Post column I warn that the largest lesson of the Christine Blasey Ford-Brett Kavanaugh confrontation could easily be seen as: Avoid the opposite sex entirely.

“It was this century [the last before Christ] that produced most of the famous Romans whose names are familiar to us: the two Gracchi, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Cicero, Caesar, and finally Augustus, all of whom helped in various ways to save Italy and the Empire from premature dissolution. It was, in fact, an age of great personalities, and one, too, in which personal character became as deeply interesting to the men of the time as it is even now to us.”

W. Warde Fowler, Rome.

 "Every right is a divine right."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News December 20, 1924 quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. VIII #7 (June 2005)

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the Ontario Tories must speak and act boldly to get out of the hole they dug for themselves by not believing their own warnings about the state of provincial finances under the Liberals.

"What happens in your house is more important than what happens in the White House."

Barbara Bush, quoted in Charles C. Heath The Blessings of Liberty