“For they [John Smith’s audience] did believe in the spirit of the devil which, as everyone knows, is in all of us.”
Walter Lippman The Public Philosophy
"That is the worst idea... since Abraham Lincoln said, ‘I'm sick of kicking around the house all day, let's go take in a show.’"
Edmund Blackadder in Black Adder Goes Forth [it turns out he actually called it “the worst idea in the history of entertainment” according to https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526713/characters/nm0000100 - such are the perils of checking quotations].
In my latest Loonie Politics column I explain how our finance minister can look so happy over his appalling fiscal “snapshot”.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if our government is to get past its baby steps in the right direction on the Chinese crackdown on Hong Kong, it has to rethink its comforting illusions about the world.
“Three moves is as good as a fire, my grandmother used to say — paraphrasing Ben Franklin, I learned years later.”
J. Bottum in First Things December 2002
In my latest National Post column I ask what to do if you think Donald Trump has to go but Joe Biden’s not well enough to serve a term as President.
“** Fop cit.”
Footnote to the second mention of John Kerry in the Wall St. Journal's “OpinionJournal” August 25, 2005