"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."

Dame Edith Sitwell, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Social Studies in Globe and Mail Sept. 29, 2011

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not more so."

Albert Einstein, quoted by Burton Malkiel A Random Walk Down Wall Street

"Many persons in these days wish to retain the morality which they like, after getting rid of the religion which they disbelieve. Whether they are right or wrong in disturbing the foundation, they are inconsistent in wishing to save the superstructure."

James Fitzjames Stephen in Liberty Equality Fraternity

If you're in the Ottawa area on Oct. 30 please consider joining MP David Anderson (Cypress Hills-Grasslands, and Shadow Cabinet Secretary for International Human Rights and Religious Freedom), Janet Epp Buckingham (Director of Trinity Western University's Laurentian Leadership Centre), Jay Cameron (Litigation Manager for the Justice Centre for Canadian Freedoms) and myself to discuss "Canadian Freedoms: Growing Threats?" at the Parliamentary Forum on Canadian Freedoms.

It's in Room 430, Wellington Building (197 Sparks St.) from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday Oct. 30 and it is open to the public. But you need to RSVP to David Anderson's Legislative Assistant Tristan McLaughlin (613-995-1616 or david.anderson.a1@parl.gc.ca) and you will need photo ID for admission to the Parliamentary premises.

I'll be talking about Magna Carta, how Parliament evolved to protect the freedoms guaranteed in the Great Charter, and how the weakening of Parliament in recent decades threatens our liberties.

"He was a gentle, polite, elderly person with no more warmth in him than a hangman’s rope. The Agency wits said he could spit icicles in July."

Dashiell Hammett Red Harvest (the narrator re his boss at the Continental Detective Agency)

In the latest August-September Landowner magazine I have an article on environmentalism as a religion, saying it has the virtue of grasping the need for repentance, despite repenting the wrong things in the wrong ways for the wrong reasons.

In my latest National Post column I argue that the federal Liberals' contempt for truth explains their contempt for Parliament.

"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."

George Orwell, quoted by Jeffrey Hart in National Review Feb. 8, 1999