“It is one of the deep jokes of existence that very wise people and very ignorant people frequently say the same thing; perhaps it is the basis of democracy.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News Feb. 23, 1907, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)
In my latest Epoch Times column I started by asking why the new British cabinet was so small and ended up explaining why it was so large.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say that a Democratic party that deceived us and itself for years about Biden’s senility is unfit to govern, while mainstream media that participated in the deceit are unfit to report.
“If America Is Racist, Why Have Millions of Blacks Immigrated Here? Did Jews Immigrate to Germany in the 1930s?”
Headline on a columnby Dennis Prager in Epoch Times June 22, 2021 [https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/if-america-is-racist-why-have-millions-of-blacks-emigrated-here-did-jews-emigrate-to-germany-in-the-1930s_3869310.html]
“We do not see in the past a perpetual line of increasing liberation or enlargement of artistic experiment. What we see in the past is the much more human business of men first doing something badly; then doing it well; then doing it too well – or, at least, too easily and too often. Then they commonly begin to do something else; but the thing is much more often an old thing than a new thing.”
G.K. Chesterton in “Novelty in Art” in Illustrated London News October 6, 1928, reprinted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 6 (July-August 2023) [critiquing “the rather antiquated theory of progress”.]
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask how even Canada’s Department of National Defence, or lack of same, can be baffled at what it takes to make a standard 155mm artillery shell.
“the thousand-yard stare...”
C.S. Crawford, The Four Deuces: A Korean War Story
“Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?”
Joseph Howe [in appealing to a jury Halifax in 1835 to acquit him on libel charges because what he’d published was true even though at that time truth was not a defence in British law, which they did, thus engaging in “jury nullification” to uphold that liberty] in Dennis Gruending, ed., Great Canadian Speeches