In my latest National Post column I say tax reform would be easier to discuss and accomplish if governments weren't universally desperate for money. So arguably politicians and voters should give more thought to why they are.

"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss."

Thomas Carlyle, Thomas

if you're in the Ottawa area this Saturday please consider attending the Grand Opening of the Canadian Centre for Men and Families - Ottawa, "the first Men’s Centre in the nation’s capital".

"No theory, no history."

Werner Sombart, quoted in Theodore Von Laue The World Revolution of Westernization

In my latest National Post column I say that not attacking North Korea is a lot riskier than it sounds.

"Those who talk of 'tolerating all opinions' are very provincial bigots who are only familiar with one opinion."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Feb. 24, 1912, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6

"The first impression that one gets of a ruler and of his brains is from seeing the men that he has about him."

Machiavelli, quoted in Dan Rather The Palace Guard