“Canada’s bronze medal a moment to be savoured”

National Post September 12, 2023 [1st page of the Sports section].

In my latest Mercatornet column I ask how Americans reached this dreadful pass and what any of us can do about it.

“Our plans miscarry because we have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”

Seneca, quoted by a writer whose name I did not record in National Review July 11, 1994

“The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 4 (March-April 2023) – the context was a long-ago crisis in the affairs of the famous jeweler Tiffany’s.

“When someone offers you a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents’ worth, what happens to the other penny?”

Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition October 2004, “Submitted by Fred Fragano”.

“The reason we have sexual harassment is that we do not believe in chastity. In the end, the only way to discourage unwanted advances is to condemn immoral ones. To discredit sexual harassment, one must discredit sexual sin.”

J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]

In my latest Epoch Times column I complain about the ongoing, pervasive pattern in which Canadian courts agree that the state has violated our rights, then say what the heck, probably for the best, go fish.

“Great men are almost always bad men”

Lord Acton (aka John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton of Aldenham) quoted in James C. Holland’s Introduction to the Acton Institute’s 1993 edition of Acton’s The History of Freedom