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“The #UCP has no connection to the PCs. They’re a coalition of the religious & libertarian right. So it’s a coalition of anger & resentment. If you don’t have a chip on your shoulder you don’t belong – the least attractive place to be for balanced, rational people.”
Complete text of tweet by Canadian radio personality Charles Adler November 26, 2022 [assuming every balanced, rational person knows anger, resentment or both are the foundation of faith]
“It is needless to say that the journalists do not always tell the truth about the politicians. What surprises me is that so very often, it would seem, they do not even know the truth about them.”
G. K. Chesterton in New Witness Jan. 28, 1920 quoted in “Chesterton For Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (November-December 2021)
“‘It’s corn!,’ ‘Dark Brandon’ and ‘girl explaining’: A look at the most notable memes of 2022”
Subject line/hed on email teaser from “NBC News Stop Stories” 23/12/22 [and noteworthy to me because I totally missed all three and wasn’t sorry]
In my latest Loonie Politics column I mock policymakers and pundits who say the laws of economics have changed because they haven’t but these trendy faddists thought they had.
“We do not consider this a credible explanation.”
The BBC when Chinese authorities detained, handcuffed and beat up one of their journalists “for his own good in case he caught Covid from the crowd” November 28, 2022 (https://twitter.com/BBCNewsPR/status/1597000489513537536).
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the big problem with Canada’s federal ethics commissioner isn’t the Liberals making a mockery of the post, it’s that we’re trying to substitute technical expertise for character.
In my latest Mercatornet article I say that what matters in the upcoming U.S. election is not what the people involved would have you focus on.
“We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.”
G.K. Chesterton (not further attributed) header quotation on “News With Views Compiled by Mark Pilon” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2021)