In my latest National Post column I express hope that Britain’s National Health Service praising cousin marriage to preemptively placate Islamist immigrants will instead represent a positive turning point as regular people simply refuse to tolerate such idiotic disloyalty and cultural suicide any longer.
In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that when our government warns Communist China not to be as evil as us, they’re the ones being divisive. Which should not be controversial but apparently is.
“What is the matter with internationalism is that it is imperialism. It is the imposition of one ideal of one sect on the vital varieties of men. But it is worse than the imposition of ideals. It is actually the imposition of indifference.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News June 17, 1922, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert! The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #5 (May/June 2024)
“the time-honored axiom that if something is not worth doing, it is not worth doing right.”
Dave Barry Dave Barry’s Bad Habits
“Blessed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness.”
Thomas Carlyle, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience [and doubtless many others; those are just the two in my files].
“I care not what may be the form of belief which the on-looker may hold – whether it be in unison or in antagonism with that faith preached by these men; but he is only a poor semblance of a man who can behold such a sight through the narrow glass of sectarian feeling, holding opinions foreign to his own.”
W.F. Butler The Great Lone Land [re the extraordinary devotion of the French (and thus by implication Catholic) missionaries to the western Indian tribes]
“Time is not the same for the speaker as for the audience. To the speaker it is too, too brief for what he has to say. For the audience it is a grim foretaste of eternity.”
Marshall McLuhan “‘Culture Without Literacy’/ Explorations 1, 1953”, quoted as X post from The McLuhan Institute March 11, 2025 [https://x.com/McLinstitute/status/1899494456417480991]
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say for the Carney administration to resort to transparent budget trickery instead of reining in overspending is a disastrously self-defeating strategy even in PR terms.