In my latest Loonie Politics column, I explain why whoever wins the American election it will be so bad that both parties should be ashamed.

“Unconditional surrender of our enemies [is] the signal for the greatest outburst of joy in the history of mankind. Holiday rejoicing is necessary to the human spirit.”

“Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in his May 8 Victory in Europe day broadcast” quoted by Ted Barris in National Post May 6, 2005

In my latest Epoch Times column I say puzzling polls suggesting the federal Liberals would win a snap election easily, despite a record as disappointing to friends as infuriating to foes, indicate that there’s something wrong with the Opposition and just possibly the electorate as well.

In my latest National Post column I say now that the Department of Finance has discovered, again, that people emerging from poverty face a very high marginal tax rate as benefits are withdrawn, it needs to rediscover that there is no technical solution here, only a tough call as to how to live with it.

“Now in the case of water, by splashing it one can make it shoot up higher than one’s forehead, and by forcing it one can make it stay on a hill. How can that be the nature of water? It is the circumstances being what they are. That man can be made bad shows that his nature is no different from that of water in this respect.”

Mencius in a collection of his writings titled simply Mencius

“no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse”

John Locke The Second Treatise of Government

“The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.”

Graham Greene, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 29, 2005