“If you will not obey the Tao, or else commit suicide, obedience to impulse (and therefore, in the long run, to mere ‘nature’) is the only course left open.”

C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man

“’Our prospects in Alberta look as good as they have in a long time.”

Liberal MP for Edmonton West Anne McLellan, quoted in Ottawa Citizen November 16, 2003 (the party subsequently won just 2 seats as they had in 2000 and 1997, but McLellan seemed oblivious to the double meaning of her words)

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the federal Liberals no longer even see the need to hide the fact that they created a friendly panel to advise them on which of their friends should tell them which friendly newspapers to subsidize.

“men who are called practical; and the much more practical pertinacity of the man who is called theoretical.”

G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: “The Dumb Ox”

In my latest National Post column I challenge those prone to declaring policy debates “settled” to tell us on which subjects, if any, an intelligent, decent person might have a different view from theirs.