“In truth, the problems facing France are difficult, but not profound.”
News story in Globe & Mail May 7, 2007
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 Epoch Times column I say if our government is to get past its baby steps in the right direction on the Chinese crackdown on Hong Kong, it has to rethink its comforting illusions about the world.
“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
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.