“What is happening to us is that we don’t know what is happening to us and that is exactly what is happening to us.”

José Ortega y Gasset, quoted by Allan Gotlieb in National Post November 17, 2000

Oh look, a Maclean’s columnist calls me a “sophomoric… absent-minded, AFD defending, climate change denying Carrot Top” for defending free speech.

“The oldest rule in economics, [U.S.] CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said on Tuesday, is ‘we cannot do everything.’”

Marcus Gee in Globe & Mail August 28, 2003

In my latest National Post column I say calls to make handguns illegal in a city in response to criminals using illegal handguns for illegal murders make no sense.

“For Wit and Judgment often are at strife,/ Tho’ meant each other’s Aid, like Man and Wife.”

Alexander Pope “An Essay on Criticism”

“I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself."

G. K. Chesterton, quoted on Thinkexist.com

“Few Christian thinkers have so well understood [as Luther] the abyss of despair that is the alternative to the utterly gratuitous love of God in Christ.”

Richard John Neuhaus in First Things January 2004