In my latest Epoch Times column I say we’re in a heap of trouble now that Justin Trudeau has promised that his fall fiscal update will give us more of the fiscal restraint he thinks he’s delivered all along.
“I began listening more carefully to what my father had to say after the Churchill speech, for my father was clear in his own mind about where his loyalties lay. Having known persecution in Poland [he was Jewish], having served with his brothers in the British Army during the First World War, and having been a fierce patriot in his land of adoption, my father was an outspoken advocate of British freedom. ‘This is the one place where people are still free,’ he would tell me. ‘If you have to choose between giving in and fighting, fight; just remember that. Fight with everything you’ve got.’”
Jack Maurice Nissen Winning the Radar War
In my latest National Post column I describe the weird combination of tedium and fury induced by listening to members of the UN special committee for blaming Israel for all problems in the Mideast droning on.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say Justin Trudeau’s partisan suspension of the carbon tax on home heating oil doesn’t prove his climate crusade is secretly a hoax, it proves he’s openly a very silly man.
“Wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.”
Elon Musk, widely quoted, not always verbatim, but Snopes has the relevant clip at https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-wokeness/
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Crack-Up [according to https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/64918-the-test-of-a-first-rate-intelligence-is-the-ability-to] [and one of those I don’t agree with, but widespread elite conviction that it is true helps explain the mess we’re in today]
In my latest National Post column I say the best way to get universities to stop promoting malevolent radicalism and start teaching again, and to promote actual social justice as well, is to privatize them and see what kind of education the young adults who will supposedly benefit from it are actually willing to pay full price for.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say much of the left was caught offside on Hamas because ideas have consequences and they have embraced ones that lead to terrible places.