In my latest Loonie Politics column I say it’s not surprising for an unprincipled Red Tory to join in the orgy of vote-buying at the expense of the last vestige of conservatism. But it won’t end well for the nation.
In my latest National Post column I argue that the solution to toxic anger in politics, far easier said than done, is neither to cause nor succumb to it.
In my latest Epoch Times column I deplore the spectacle of the Trudeau ministry treating the tragically botched evacuation from Kabul airport as yet another occasion for lavish self-praise.
In my latest National Post column I say the worst thing about the Liberals’ doctored video showing Erin O’Toole supporting more private options in health care is that there’s no way it could possibly be true.
“It is far more difficult to form an informed opinion about what is good for society as a whole than it is to determine where one’s self-interest lies.”
Judge Richard Posner, apparently in Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy, quoted in James Surowiecki The Wisdom of Crowds
In my latest Loonie Politics column I lament that far too many voters still believe politicians can shower them with free money and not germinating a nasty crop of debt and inflation instead of wealth and social services.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say our constitution has deteriorated so far into populism that elections are no longer about issues, only who gets unchecked power until the next vote.
“Is there a possibility that the government of nations may fall into the hands of men who teach the most disconsolate of all creeds, that men are but fireflies, and that this all is without a father?”
John Quincy Adams, in the Letters of Publicola, quoted in Russell Kirk The Conservative Mind [Kirk added that the specific target was Thomas Paine and that Adams went on that rather than such an outcome “Give us again the gods of the Greeks.”]