“Signs of a narcissistic sociopath/ 1. They live in a deluded reality/ 2. They are obsessed with power and control/ 3. They take advantage of and use other people/ 4. They have no moral boundaries/ 5 They have a limited range of emotions/ 6. They have a huge discard pile/ 7. They become hostile when threatened/ 8. They feed off negative energy/ 9. They get bored easily/ 10. They are empty inside”

Arrived in my X feed in January 2024 (with regard to a particular politician but they're not the only ones).

James “Madison was the Father of the Constitution, Architect of the Bill of Rights, and the only Secretary of State never to have left the country. The oldest of 12 children, he could read and write in seven languages. He attended the College of New Jersey (which became Princeton) instead of William and Mary – where Jefferson went and got all those Scottish Enlightenment Ideas.”

Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #3 (Jan.-Feb. 2024)

In my latest Epoch Times column I urge people to put aside small-minded, defeatist, timid claims that practically speaking Canada can only have the bad muddled policies it currently does, and write down what they really think is wrong and what they really think would fix it.

In my latest National Post column I discuss the very good reason Israelis made a very bad deal.

“Without freedom of speech, we would not know who the idiots are.”

Emailed without attribution by a friend May 28, 2024

In my latest Mercatornet piece I say lurid claims that 2024 was the “hottest year ever” are ignorant bunk, while more restrained assertions that it was the hottest or second-hottest since 1880 depend on hocus-pocus about how accurately such things are measured, and were.

“The modern laxity of language has had a great deal to do with the ultimate laxity of conduct.”

G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly July 4, 1931 quoted in “More About Language” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)

“Many people today spend their lives in the really delightful pursuit of kickable objects.”

G.K. Chesterton in Acton Gazette December 2, 1910, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)