In my latest Epoch Times column I deplore and ridicule calls for Israel not to “escalate” a conflict with Hezbollah that has seen the latter rain deadly munitions on Israelis for nine months in what is clearly already an act of war.
“I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs/ By the known rules of antient libertie,/ When strait a barbarous noise environs me/ Of Owles and Cuckoos, Asses, Apes and Doggs.”
John Milton On the Detraction Which Follow’d Upon My Writing Certain Treatises
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if we want cleaner politics the starting point is to cultivate our own garden by refusing to tell a lie even indirectly by sitting silently when we hear one.
“There is a vulnerability about waking in a dark room and rediscovering despair.”
Spiro T. Agnew Go Quietly... or Else
“Most of you know that I’ve been around long enough to remember a good many political leaders and that I’ve studied all of their merits and in most cases it didn’t take long.”
“The Geezer’s Corner” by Dale Dawson in The Landowner August/September 2015
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Canada’s federal government increasingly reminds me of that 1928 classic imaginary hobo’s paradise.
In my latest National Post column I heap scorn on the federal Liberals’ ability to stuff us all into standardized human-stacking units and on their desire to.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say that instead of redoubling our fury at our partisan foes in the wake of a very narrow brush with disastrous chaos, we might all take a minute to improve the tone of our own thoughts and words.