In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that the main governmental problem in Canada isn’t who we entrust with power, it’s the amount of power we entrust them with.
In my latest National Post column I ask people who hate Donald Trump why they can’t talk sensibly about important issues until he barges into the conversation.
In my latest Epoch Times column I condemn the ruinous frivolity of seeking to launch massive new social programs that will fail the same way the existing ones have when we’re already out of money.
“There is nothing wrong with old ideas, so long as they are true. And there is nothing admirable about new ones, if they aren’t.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn]
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laserlike focus.”
Bruce Lee, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)
In my latest National Post column I argue that the same libertarian-libertine qualities that made social media appealing across normal partisan lines, and addictive, are now making them hugely and rightly unpopular and we must make the platforms legally “publishers” to put a stop to the raging indecency.
In my latest Epoch Times column, I describe how our universities are unraveling financially and academically as part of a cascading set of policy disasters in which the one thing we never do is go back and reverse previous mistakes instead of piling on fresh ones.
“Jean Chretien’s government wants the shade from the tree, but aren’t willing to do anything to keep that tree strong.”
Canadian Alliance MP Monte Solberg quoted in the National Post March 31, 2003 [the specific context was Solberg supporting the second Gulf War but it obviously applies far more broadly as well as chronically to politicians and the Canadian Armed Forces]