In my latest Epoch Times column I say the dismissal then minimization of allegations against former CDS Jonathan Vance are all too typical of a political class that does not understand accountability… or security.
“You have a disagreeable way of being right.” “It’s the curse of a distrustful nature.”
An exchange between two characters on the TV show Law and Order September 4, 1997. I am not certain the “disagreeable way” is verbatim and I did not record which characters. If you disapprove of this sloppiness, complain to my editor.
“’People say to me, that it is but a dream to suppose that Christianity should regain the organic power in human society which once it possessed. I cannot help that; I never said it could. I am not a politician; I am proposing no measures, but exposing a fallacy, and resisting a pretence. Let Benthamism reign, if men have no aspirations; but do not tell them to be romantic, and then solace them with glory; do not attempt by philosophy what was once done by religion. The ascendancy of Faith may be impracticable, but the reign of Knowledge is incomprehensible.’”
John Henry Newman, “The Tamworth Reading Room” (1841) quoted in Russell Kirk The Conservative Mind
“all the presence of a railroad tie”
Richard Brookhiser in National Review June 10, 1991 regarding a speech by Chuck Robb
“Teach me neither to cry for the moon nor over spilt milk.”
“The late George V had these framed words hanging on the wall of his library in Buckingham Palace” according to Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“We are not any of us very nice.”
W.H. Auden, quoted by Rod McDonald in Ottawa Citizen March 20, 2001
In my latest National Post column I say the key question about Canada’s federal budget isn’t political but intellectual: Is this massive spending and borrowing spree based on sound assumptions about how the world works or not?
“In general, the thing that is most, sort of, rational and best for your own self-interest is to be nice.”
David Rand, “a Harvard biology graduate student researcher”, about a study he and professor Martin Nowak did involving repeated iterations of a version of prisoner’s dilemma, quoted on www.ctv.ca March 19, 2008