“Invited to choose between two bad poets, Dr. Johnson said he declined to adjudicate the precedence between a louse and a flea.”
Mark Steyn in National Post June 28, 2001
“it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth.”
Margaret Thatcher to the Church of Scotland in Fr. James Vincent Schall Religion, Wealth and Poverty
In my latest National Post column I quote two ponderously preposterous assurances on the pandemic a year ago to ask why no experience of their own failure ever convinces Canadian authorities to speak more humbly or think more carefully.
In my latest National Post column I say Erin O’Toole’s boast about being pragmatic and moderate amounts to saying he has no convictions and cannot be counted on by anyone for anything, and trying to make it sound like an achievement. But it’s not.
“‘If a man will not work he shall not eat,’ wrote St. Paul to the Thessalonians.”
Margaret Thatcher to Church of Scotland, quoted in James V. Schall Religion, Wealth and Poverty
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the casual and inconsistent way governments keep shutting down our lives betrays their conceited conviction that we weren’t doing anything important anyway.
In my latest National Post column I say John Le Carré’s novels were morally rotten and dangerous in practice.
In the National Post I remember as always those who gave all their tomorrows for my today, and try to treat it as the precious gift that it is.