In my latest National Post column I accuse Justin Trudeau and his cronies of willful blindness on the threat the People’s Republic of China poses to Canadians.
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
Winston Churchill, quoted on https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/721301-fear-is-a-reaction-courage-is-a-decision
In my latest Epoch Times column I say Canada’s so-called naval procurement plan is a lot of mirrors and smoke but very little of the latter is from actual useful weapons.
In my latest Mercatornet column I compare the re-impeachment of Donald Trump with some other examples of historical vindictiveness.
In my latest National Post column I say the inability to vaccinate in a pandemic isn’t isolated, it’s part of an overall crisis of governmental competence made worse by self-satisfaction and complacency.
“They [the framers of the American Constitution] knew that rules of government, however brilliantly calculated to cope with the imperfect nature of man, however carefully designed to avoid the pitfalls of power, would be no match for men who were determined to disregard them.”
Barry Goldwater The Conscience of a Conservative
“One good thing about silence is that it can’t be repeated.”
Variously attributed online including anonymously.
“when we scrape away the varnish of wealth, education, class, ethnic origin, parochial loyalties, we discover that however much we’ve changed the shape of man’s physical environment, man himself is still sinful, vain, greedy, ambitious, lustful, self-centered, unrepentant, and requiring of restraint.”
Barry Goldwater With No Apologies (though elsewhere in the book even he said new technologies and ideas might make the world way better in the 21st century)