In my latest National Post column I say the federal Liberals have literally no idea what they're getting themselves into when they promise to assess every policy initiative in the budget according to its impact on everything to do with gender including all their other policies.

"Winston Churchill once described the Balkans as a region that produced more history than it could consume."

Carol Off The Ghosts of Medak Pocket

"I remember that when I was a boy my teacher asked if anybody knew what laissez faire meant. I didn’t realize it was a French phrase. I thought it meant the government was 'lazy' and 'fair.' And it certainly worked well for Hong Kong under British rule."

Martin Lee in CATO Policy Report Vol. XXI, #6 (Nov./Dec. 1999)

In my latest National Post column I say because Patrick Brown can't clear his name by running for his old job, if he or anyone turns out to have had their career or personal life ruined by false accusations there must be consequences for those responsible.

"As long as your players know, deep down, that you are trying to make them as good as they can be, then you can use just about anything [for motivation]. Even a disappearing act. Once, in 1978, we were losing to Notre Dame at halftime. Here was my halftime speech: 'Gentlemen, it’s one thing to be beaten. It’s another to be embarrassed.' And I walked out. We won, 28-14."

Bo Schembechler and Mitch Albom BO 

"Le monde récompense plus souvent les apparences du mérite que le mérite même."

Réflexions morales #166 in François de La Rochefoucauld Maximes

"For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtues, it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. They will adopt the easier task of making our successful men good."

G.K. Chesterton, “The Book of Job,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton