In my latest National Post column I say a pointless, petty sneer at a minor policy change shows in microcosm what’s wrong with contemporary politics.

“The perishable nature of opportunity.”

Brian Lee Crowley to the Institute for Liberal Studies "Canadian Property Rights" Conference Oct. 17, 2014 (the specific reference was to resource projects in Canada but it applies far more broadly in government and in life generally)

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say fixing Western alienation will require more than honeyed words from the Prime Minister lately pouring vinegar on the region. We need to recognize that the West is unhappy with excessive government that destroys wealth, and that it is right to be unhappy. If that viewpoint strikes you as reasonable, please join the Economic Education Association of Alberta in Red Deer on Nov. 15-16 for our biggest-ever “Freedom School”, on “Meeting the Challenge of Western Separatism”.

“‘What fun it would be,’ he [Mustapha Mond, Resident World Controller of Western Europe] thought, ‘if one didn’t have to think about happiness.’”

Aldous Huxley Brave New World