In my latest National Post column I say it is not good for America or the world when the legacy media cheerlead for Joe Biden’s VP pick instead of scrutinizing her.
“[I]t is the mark of an educated man to look for precision to each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.”
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics quoted in Walter H. Beale A Pragmatic Theory of Rhetoric
“A man who dropped out of college to join ISIS said after being captured becoming a member of the extremist group was the worst decision he’s made.”
NBC News July 27 2015 [to which one can only say “I certainly hope so”]
“Learn to pause, or nothing worthwhile can catch up to you.”
Unknown [widely cited, sometimes as a Zen koan, without further attribution]
“’I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done, as long as I enjoyed it at the time,’ she [Katharine Hepburn] once said. That really is not a sound thought, and not even worldly…. If he enjoyed the rape, he should feel no regret for having done it?”
William F. Buckley Jr. in National Review August 11, 2003
“He was nothing if not straightforward – and he was not straightforward.”
A “Needhamism” from the then-just-deceased columnist Richard J. Needham, quoted in a letter from Malcolm MacLeod of St. John’s to the Globe & Mail July 30, 1996
“with every baby a new sun and a new moon are made.”
The spirit of Adam Wayne in G.K. Chesterton The Napoleon of Notting Hill