“the Palestinians have seemed, as in the last election, to show a preference for the evil of lessers.”

OpinionJournal July 28, 2006

In my latest Epoch Times column I note the eerie similarities between the stilted belligerence of totalitarian states attacking free societies from the outside and the woke attacking them from within.

“‘I try to be, as G.K. Chesterton once wrote, ‘wise enough to be made a fool of.’”

Susan Cheever in Newsday November 12, 2002 p. B02, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #1 (9/03)

“When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.”

The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]

“We do not consider this a credible explanation.”

The BBC when Chinese authorities detained, handcuffed and beat up one of their journalists “for his own good in case he caught Covid from the crowd” November 28, 2022 (https://twitter.com/BBCNewsPR/status/1597000489513537536).

In my latest Epoch Times column I call the contrast between the crushing of the convoy protest and the surrender to the public sector union one evidence that Canada is losing its grip on the rule of law.

“My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.”

The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington] [and yes, I’m on an Iron Duke binge because I’d long admired him but had no idea he’d uttered so many bon mots, if he’ll pardon my French].

“Like Jordan Baker, people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes.”

Joan Didion Slouching Toward Bethlehem