In my latest National Post column I say Canadian politicians, and many voters, are dangerously out of touch with basic economic realities.

"‘It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh,’ said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully, ‘for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.’”

L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it."

Alistair Cooke, quoted in The Write File Quarterly Issue #5, Summer 1995

In its annual report Freedom House had rated 81 of the world’s countries as providing a high degree of individual liberty. "It is not an accident that a majority of the citizens in 74 of those countries are Christians."

Paul Marshall, a Canadian political scientist and senior fellow with the Centre for Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C., quoted in British Columbia Report April 5, 1999

She dismisses an implausible claim as “like a clock that strikes 13. It throws into question all that has gone before it and all that follows.”

Arianna Huffington in National Review April 5, 1999

In a Financial Post column today I say the Supreme Court's ruling in the "case of beer" a.k.a. R. v. Comeau is not only ill-timed and legally illogical, it's post-truth.