In my latest National Post column I say the real crisis in Canadian public health care is that we aren’t willing to consider that it’s working badly because we’re doing it wrong.
“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, quoted on www.brainyquote.com/quotes/dietrich_bonhoeffer_164002
In BOE Report I say Alberta premier Jason Kenney should not have put a prominent advocate of carbon taxes in a key job. To a large extent personnel is policy so this is a worrying appointment.
“Stupidity is pretty easy to spot, but intelligence can be quite an elusive trait to define.”
Stephen Reucroft and John Swain “in The Boston Globe.” quoted in Globe & Mail Nov. 16, 2001
“Everything Milton [Friedman] touches has the feel of his optimism…”
William F. Buckley, Jr. in National Review July 18, 2005 [at which point Friedman was 93]
“It is certainly one of the things that we can’t not know that no one may deliberately take innocent human life. The more particular doctrine of man as the created image of God seems unknown beyond the bible’s sphere of influence; it is not one of the things we can’t not know. Some intuition of the sacredness of human life is universal nonetheless…”
J. Budziszewski What We Can’t Not Know
“How do you do, Miss West?"
Mae West: "How do you do what?”
Harmik Vaishnav, Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
In my latest National Post column I object to the hypocrisy of press releases in which staff falsely claim their politician boss is deeply engaged with some day of this or festival of that whose details they had to Google after an automated reminder to pander over it popped up..