In my latest Loonie Politics column I give thanks that Canada is blessed with sages capable of devising the brilliantly original solution to our health care crisis of spending tons more cash from Ottawa’s magic money tree.
“We must take the passions of men as nature has given them…”
George Washington in W.B. Allen George Washington: A Collection.
In my latest National Post column I say the outrageous way the Chinese government speaks about the outrageous things it does is a red flag about the outrageous way it thinks.
“In their political arrangements, men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time. With regard to futurity, we are to treat it like a ward. We are not so to attempt an improvement of his fortune as to put the capital of his estate at risk.”
Edmund Burke An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the Finance Minister is not plotting to steal our savings, just proclaiming her intention to do something so hopelessly confused not even she knows what it is.
“To die for one's country means to live forever”.
A letter from Marko Milosevic about his father Slobodan, who did not have a priest at his interment because he was an atheist, quoted with appropriate critique in OpinionJournal March 20, 2006
“Tourism was the source of history’s original failure of cultural understanding. Cyril Aldred writes that ancient Greek and Roman vacationers in Egypt ‘never really understood Egyptian religion and were inclined to see in inexplicable acts and beliefs a more profound significance than actually existed.’ Thus the concept of the ‘inscrutable Orient,’ the idea of the ‘mysterious East.’”
P.J. O’Rourke in The Atlantic Monthly September 2002
“Political conflict, domestic or international, is rooted in the nature of man. It is a reflection of his finitude, his moral weakness, and his irrationality.”
Ernest W. Lefever Ethics and United States Foreign Policy