“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”

Eric Hoffer, quoted on “Preacher’s Illustrative Nuggets” (www.hound-dog-media.com/2014/01/gamblers-fools-and-egotists-59-still_31.html)

In my latest National Post column I say, as a very reluctant interventionist, that the time has come to oust Venezuela’s dictator.

In my latest National Post column I say it’s absurd and ghastly for the major parties each to rail at the other for wanting to tax without spending, as if there were no connection between high program spending and high taxes.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the right answer to Canada’s incompetent governance is a simple “no”.

“I think that, as life is passion and action, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”

“U.S. judge, and Civil War veteran, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.” quoted by Christie Blatchford in Globe & Mail July 7, 2006 [filing from Kandahar, Afghanistan]