In my latest National Post column I say the self-satisfied tone at the latest global warming alarmist confab in chilly Glasgow is a sign of how detached they are from economic as well as scientific reality.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the big issue with making Mélanie Joly Canada’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs isn’t that she lacks relevant experience or gravitas, it’s that it doesn’t matter.
“It is universally acknowledged that there is a great uniformity among the actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the same actions. The same events always follow from the same causes.”
David Hume, quoted in Richard Hofstadter The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
In my latest National Post column I say major problems with British socialized medicine would offer important lessons for Canada if we could just get over our fixation with our health system being above reproach. If you agree, please join us for the EEA’s “Freedom School” on “Meeting the Healthcare Challenge” on Oct. 22 and 23.
“He is a modest man, with a great deal to be modest about.”
Winston Churchill about Clement Attlee, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things April 2002
In my latest National Post column I call Erin O’Toole’s flipflop on gun control a test case of whether populism, as one way of making the electoral system more responsive to popular wishes, actually brings better or more honest policy.
“When you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill, quoted in William D. Gairdner The Trouble With Democracy
“The moral state of mankind fills me with dismays and horrors.”
Edmund Burke, expressly re his own time, quoted in Russell Kirk The Conservative Mind