In my National Post column that appeared in print today, I draw on a new Fraser Institute study to underline that unless we put firm restraints on it, government will indulge its ever-growing appetite including for pay and perks far larger than those left to us in the private sector. For more on how to restrain government, see our documentary True, Strong and Free on fixing Canada's Constitution.
In my latest National Post column I lament the casual way the Ontario government has breached doctor-patient confidentiality including laughing off search warrants.
“It is strange, he [Tom Rath, the main character] thought, that almost always there is so much irony in success.” Sloan Wilson The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
“Ritual is really much older than thought; it is much simpler and much wilder than thought…. A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool.” G.K. Chesterton in Heretics
When some people discover that novelist Mark Helprin does not read the New York Times “They look at me as if I had just slaughtered Mary’s little lamb.” Helprin, quoted by Jay Nordlinger in National Review March 22 2004
About the influence of Hillbillies on US politics.
The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Ask the Professor, December 9"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/December/Ask_Professor_67.mp3[/podcast]
“I cannot talk about anything without talking about everything.” G.K. Chesterton in “The Return of the Romans,” in The Resurrection of Rome, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008)
My latest for The Rebel: The audio-only version is available here: [podcast title="Rebel, December 8"]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2016/December/161208Rebel.mp3[/podcast]