"The questions are not how or when we die. It is how and why we live."

Ron McCloskey in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #5 (March 2002)

In my latest LooniePolitics column I argue that while incumbent parties traditionally lose seats in U.S. midterm elections, the Democrats bring plenty of flaws to 2018 to offset those of the GOP.

“Now in the year 1066 the grandson of a Norse pirate was recognized as king of England. Why should we ever read fairy stories, when the truth of history is so much more interesting and entertaining?”

Hendrick Van Loon The Story of Mankind.

In my latest National Post column I suggest that a habit of counting our blessings on Canada would help preserve them.

“Over the years, I have come to understand a critical difference between the world of fear and the world of freedom. In the former, the primary challenge is finding the inner strength to confront evil. In the latter, the primary challenge is finding the moral clarity to see evil.”

Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer The Case for Democracy

“In his new memoirs, Decision Points, George W. Bush...  tells of one summer job on a cattle ranch in which the foreman derided those who were ‘Book smart, sidewalk stupid.’"

William Watson in Ottawa Citizen December 7, 2010

"Perhaps, like me, the reader is sufficiently antique to recall a time when genius was normally reserved for that rare soul who, in Dr. Johnson’s phrase, ‘can do readily what no one else can do at all’..."

A writer whose name I did not record in Chronicles magazine Jan. 1988

"There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man."

G.K. Chesterton quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 # 7 (June 2004)