“The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.”

Confederate General Richard Ewell quoted in James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War & Reconstruction

In my latest Loonie Politics column I warn that the British are trying to police the Persian Gulf with a navy they don’t have.

“As no one ever reads history, it was natural enough that there should be a great deal of disappointment, and a great deal of astonishment.”

Hugh Walpole, “Major Wilbraham,” in Chancellor Press Great Ghost Stories [the specific focus of the disappointment is with the immediate results of the end of World War I]

In my latest National Post column I say that press releases that declare themselves important reveal themselves as self-important.

“brilliant, but not correct.”

Quoted in Horace Porter Campaigning with Grant as “what Cuvier said of the French Academy’s definition of a crab”.

In my latest Epoch Times column I write that China’s real environmental record shows how inefficient as well as dangerous dictatorships are. Far from being able to “turn on a dime” to green their economy or do any other praiseworthy thing, they suppress information, ignore costs, and lumber about doing wasteful harm.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I urge Canadians to find their outrage at news that we’re going to keep our vintage CF-18s flying until 2032 instead of getting up-to-date aerial combat capability.