In my latest Epoch Times column, I say Justin Trudeau is half-right that his job is not to be popular.
“Deal with a thing while it is still nothing;/ Keep a thing in order before disorder sets in.”
Lao Tzu II.LXIV
“As the Chinese proverb says: Unless we change direction, we will likely end up where we are headed.”
Diane Francis in Maclean’s March 21, 1994
“We say we must ‘forgive ourselves’ - but no one can really forgive himself, because he is not the one who is principally concerned by his wrongdoing. Instead one should confess wrong and seek forgiveness from that person – and from God.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]
“John Diefenbaker once compared the Trudeau government to a cemetery run by its occupants.”
John Ivison in National Post October 28, 2003 [obviously the reference is to Pierre Trudeau]
In my latest Loonie Politics column I complain that voters throughout Canada and the Western world are not just letting politicians give up on fiscal prudence, they’re indifferent to our plunge toward insolvency.
“There is more than one kind of intelligence, and I am a fool if I dismiss the kinds I don’t have as unintelligent.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]
“There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.”
Edmund Burke, quoted in Federalist Patriot No. 04-28 12 July 2004 from Federalist.com