In its annual report Freedom House had rated 81 of the world’s countries as providing a high degree of individual liberty. "It is not an accident that a majority of the citizens in 74 of those countries are Christians."

Paul Marshall, a Canadian political scientist and senior fellow with the Centre for Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C., quoted in British Columbia Report April 5, 1999

In my latest Looniepolitics column I say the Ontario Liberals may be desperate but it's not why they're running an ugly campaign.

"In his 1906 Recollections of 13 Presidents, John Sergeant Wise, who had met Pierce, tells of the reaction of a lifelong acquaintance of Pierce’s when he learned the man had won the presidency. ‘Now Frank’s a good fellow, I admit,’ the elderly man said, ‘and I wish him well. He made a good state’s attorney, thar’s no doubt about that, and he made a far judge, thar’s no denying that, and nobody kain’t complain of him as a congressman. But when it comes to the whole Yewnited States, I dew say that in my jedgement Frank Pierce is agoin’ to spread durned thin.'"

Cynthia Crossen in James Taranto and Leonard Leo, eds., Presidential Leadership

In my latest Looniepolitics column I say cowardice plays a surprisingly large role in our political troubles.

"Truth unasserted is a lie unopposed."

George Jonas in the National Post Dec. 11, 2010
 

In my latest National Post column I ask what a government is even for if legal permission for  the Kinder Morgan pipeline project doesn't mean it's possible to build it.

"As one writer put it in the Wall St. Journal, when cowards ascend to positions of leadership, their character is revealed. They panic in a crisis. They don’t know what to do."

R. Cort Kirkwood in Ottawa Sun Dec. 20, 1998