“If he were a dog-catcher he’d come back with a cat.”
Tweet by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov Oct. 25, 2023 (his specific target was U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan) [https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1717261213267079412?s=20]
In a talk to the Augustine College Summer Seminar I argued that the American Revolution brought liberty and prosperity because it looked back to the solid foundations of Magna Carta, Christianity and the Western tradition, while the French Revolution brought misery and death because it looked forward to a utopian future unconstrained by the past.
“Richmond has a well-deserved reputation for being a hotbed of social rest.”
A famous American pundit whose name I failed to record on PBS October 15, 1992
In my latest Epoch Times column I comment on how our leaders would be forgetting history with respect to Israel finishing the fight with Hamas if they even knew any history.
“Recall the recipe for unicorn stew: first, get a unicorn.”
Richard John Neuhaus in First Things #146 October 2004 [ridiculing Robert Reich’s formula for liberal electoral victory in the U.S.]
In my latest National Post column, I say Western leaders’ calls for Israel not to retaliate for Iran’s blatant act of war amounts to “Free hits on Jews” and is disgusting, cowardly and a recipe for disaster.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I complain that voters throughout Canada and the Western world are not just letting politicians give up on fiscal prudence, they’re indifferent to our plunge toward insolvency.
“You play for the name on the front of the jersey, not the name on the back of the jersey.”
Boston Celtics hall-of-fame centre Robert Parish (quoted for instance on https://www.bostoncelticshistory.com/item/the-most-from-the-chief/).