In my latest Loonie Politics column I deplore the absence of foreign policy and national security from the current election, and from the minds of too many voters throughout the democratic world.

“An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, a wise man hardly anything.”

Goethe, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 17, 2006

In my latest National Post column I say if you don’t like people blocking access to hospitals and shouting at health care workers in over-the-top frustration, and I don’t, you must not excuse illegal “direct action” when you do support the cause.

“We do not read Aristotle to find out what people used to think, but for guidance on the issues of today.”

Here I quote myself, from October 1996.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the big issue in this Canadian federal election is that the political business-as-usual of hypocrisy and profligacy is not good enough.

“L’intérêt met en oeuvre toutes sortes de vertus et de vices.”

Réflexions morales #253 in La Rochefoucauld Maximes

“You always have to go on that, your instinctive trust or – your lack of trust. In the final analysis, there is really nothing else you can go on.”

Philip K. Dick VALIS

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

Abraham Lincoln, quoted in the American Spectator August 1988