In my latest Epoch Times column I point out that despite all the inane rhetoric about keeping out private health care as intolerable and un-Canadian, our system depends on it to function while doing its inept best to suppress it.
“The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.”
G.K. Chesterton What I Saw In America
In my latest National Post column I say “This government doesn’t do hard” could become our new national motto as a vast cast of characters across the executive, legislative and judicial branches avoids thinking about difficult choices from COVID to national security and the budget.
“What comes first in intention comes last in execution.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, quoted by Pierre Trudeau in Thomas Axworthy and Pierre Trudeau, eds., Towards a Just Society
“In nine cases out of ten the human race does not know why it disapproves of cannibalism, but I know why I disapprove of it. I disapprove because I believe that man is the image of God…”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)
“There is a type of person who perpetually seeks to excuse himself for ever having been born.”
Helmut Schoeck Envy
“the general rule that when people are talking like fools they are thinking like fools.”
A note sent to myself October 23, 2020 on watching a certain Canadian cabinet minister in action
In my latest National Post column, I say the Prime Minister’s real problem in fighting to keep Enbridge 5 open is that he actually believes fossil fuels are worse than useless.