In my latest Loonie Politics piece, I say legitimate concern about Donald Trump’s bad manners should not make us lose perspective on the far more ominous torrent of menacing abuse coming from the Chinese government.

In my latest National Post column I remind politicians that John Stuart Mill’s classic defence of free speech applies every bit as much to social media as to the spoken, written or broadcast word.

(You can watch the beginning and hear the rest of my testimony on the subject to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights on June 4, as well as that of Mark Steyn and Lindsay Shepherd, on ParlVu (my prepared remarks begin at 9:09).

In my latest National Post column I say Andrew Scheer picked a terrible time to go mushy on deficits.

“[T]o be praised by fools, that is the real dishonour.”

A “Buddhist saying” according to a letter from Judy Girard of Ottawa in Ottawa Citizen July 27, 2004