In my latest Epoch Times column I mock the notion that NATO can use “pressure” to stop Trudeau from being irresponsible, smug and daffy.
“There is a straight road which runs from Runnymede to Philadelphia. We did not ‘borrow’ provisions from the British Constitution, which had come from the people; those provisions were ours, paid for with the lives of our ancestors on many a battlefield. I have examined the matter. I tell you our Constitution came up from the body of a self-governing people. But we can lose our capacity to govern by its nonexercise.”
Congressman Hatton Sumners of Texas in 1937, quoted in Daniel Hannan, Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World
In my latest Epoch Times column I ponder uneasily what George Washington, or indeed Sir John A. Macdonald or the Duke of Wellington, would make of modern politics.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I mock policymakers and pundits who say the laws of economics have changed because they haven’t but these trendy faddists thought they had.
“... the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided.”
Opening text to movie Midway.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if Communist China is acting nicer because its drive for world domination is faltering, we should not relax our vigilance or forget our principles.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say special rapporteur David Johnston’s report on the Liberal response to communist Chinese election meddling is what Justin Trudeau hoped for, but not what he or any of us needed.
In my latest National Post column I say the tricksy maneuvering over the U.S. debt ceiling, in which the one problem no one seems able address is chronic overspending, reminds me uncomfortably of late ancien régime France.