“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that trust is decaying fast in our society, because trustworthiness is succumbing to self-actualization, with dangerous consequences from politics to concerts.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say Canada’s Environment Minister serving as an official advisor to the Chinese communists on climate shows what a “useful idiot” looks like… except I’m not sure he’s very useful.
In my latest Loonie Politics column, I offer unsolicited advice from the dark side to the new Treasury Board President on how not to incur the wrath of Trudeau, and wish her luck because she’s going to need it.
“Those who blame everything on the Treaty of Versailles, in 1919, equally miss the point: no Versailles could ‘justify’ the rise of Nazism, which had much deeper causes, as well as much shallower.”
David Warren in Ottawa Citizen June 7, 2003
“The commonplace axiom that the ‘devil is in the details’ is generally wrong. The more often correct axiom holds that the ‘terror is in the trends’.”
Colin S. Gray Canadians in a Dangerous World
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask politicians, activists and citizens to think of something, anything, that governments in Canada should just stop doing, or trying to, because it’s not a legitimate state function or because they’re too overloaded just now to tackle that thing as well. If nobody can thing of even one, I don’t just know we have a problem, I know what it is.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask for discretion and charity while insisting that the character of those who would rule over us is a matter of key public importance.