"Without a higher vision to animate it, the secular conservative’s City on a Hill will have little to distinguish it from the secular liberal’s Upper West Side of New York."

George William Rutler “The Catholic Buckley” in He Spoke to Us

In my latest National Post column I choke on "raw water".

"True character is like film, it develops in the dark."

Michael "Pinball" Clemons quoted in Ottawa Citizen November 18, 2004

"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

Helen Keller, quoted in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition March 2005

"A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos."

G.K. Chesterton "The Book of Job," reprinted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 4 (Jan./Feb. 2001)

"Hagar: 'Never judge another man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes!' Lucky Eddie: 'But before you do, make sure he doesn’t have athlete’s foot!'"

Hagar the Horrible in Ottawa Citizen March 23, 2004

In my latest National Post column I remind Canadians, with respect to the Canada Summer Jobs grant requirement to endorse abortion, that whoever pays the piper calls the tune.

In my latest National Post column I argue that neither Justin Trudeau nor Andrew Scheer would help their parties, themselves or their country by veering left for partisan advantage in 2018.