In my latest National Post column I say if we let our leaders get away with obvious lies it will prove fatal to self-government. And sorry, I’m two days late posting it so the column is missing the latest greasy twists and turns, but they only add to the list of obvious lies told after another.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I explain how our finance minister can look so happy over his appalling fiscal “snapshot”.
“There is some benevolence, however small, infused into our bosom, some spark of friendship for human kind, some particle of the dove kneaded into our frame, along with the elements of the wolf and serpent”.
David Hume, quoted in William Bennett The Book of Virtues.
“We must not provide against the loss of wealth by poverty, or of friends by refusing all acquaintance, or of children by having none, but by morality and reason.”
Plutarkhos, aka Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Plutarch’s Lives Vol. I
“breeding rather than feeding”
John Mercel Robson (my father) summarizing the nature/nurture argument in a letter in 1993
“Three moves is as good as a fire, my grandmother used to say — paraphrasing Ben Franklin, I learned years later.”
J. Bottum in First Things December 2002
In my latest National Post column I say when the rule of law no longer applies either to the powerful or to the mob it’s not social justice or any other kind.