“fairy land arouses [in the child] a longing for he knows not what.”
C.S. Lewis quoted by David W. Fagerberg in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 17 #1 (9-10/13)
“The were-Scot appears to be a normal human being, but under the influence of a full wallet sprouts red hair, a kilt and a thick brogue and roams the land in quest of haggis.”
I hope it's funny because it's one of mine, from July 14, 2002.
In an interview with Barry W. Bussey of the First Freedoms Foundation I discuss why Magna Carta is still relevant to our liberties and Constitutional order today, including religions freedom.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say it would actually be desirable for the CBC to drop its threadbare pretense at neutrality, provided it also gives up its subsidy and sees whether there’s a significant audience that actually wants full-bore wokeness.
“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”
La Rochefoucauld, quoted in Globe & Mail October 18, 1999
“People tell me they get depressed reading about the Middle East. Well, I get depressed writing about it. There’s supposed to be progress in human history, but the Middle East is moving backward.”
Leonard Stern in Ottawa Citizen January 17, 2009
“Of other Nobel Prize winners who make many grandiloquent statements on things they know nothing about, Stigler said that they ‘issue stern ultimata to the public on almost a monthly basis, and sometimes on no other basis.’”
Thomas Sowell Is Reality Optional?
In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that the Canadian Forces face an enlistment crisis because they’re too woke already, not because they aren’t woke enough yet