In my latest National Post column I ask: if this is not the moment to stand on conservative principle, when would be?

“we have lost a vision of man. We are not sure how different he actually is from animal or vegetable or rock or mineral. It is partly, I think, because we have ceased trying to relate ourselves to God: we no longer even cry that God is dead; instead, we have named him an hypothesis, a dream, and turned him over to the laboratory to ‘prove.’ And because we have stopped searching for God we have stopped searching for ultimate meaning, saying there is no purpose in human existence. Hence all is absurdity, all is nothing. The more honest among those who want God ‘proved’ tend to seek uneasy solace in neo-nihilism; or, putting heart above logic, in humanism - while the less honest settle for their own brand of idol worship, sacrificing all to success or skin color or capitalism or communism or their work or their pleasure, whispering, Let’s don’t think about it.”

Lillian Smith Killers of the Dream

"'I can’t do anything about the state of the world, but I can put my own life in order....’”

Tom Rath (the main character) in Sloan Wilson The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit

In my latest National Post column I predict the policies the federal Tories will endorse in Halifax this weekend.

“No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.”

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi