In my latest National Post column I ask what a government is even for if legal permission for  the Kinder Morgan pipeline project doesn't mean it's possible to build it.

"As one writer put it in the Wall St. Journal, when cowards ascend to positions of leadership, their character is revealed. They panic in a crisis. They don’t know what to do."

R. Cort Kirkwood in Ottawa Sun Dec. 20, 1998

"A fish stinks first from the head."

Adage about leadership, widely quoted and attributed.

In my latest Looniepolitics column I ask how we could so quickly have discarded the hard-won lessons of the 1990s about the dangers of government debt and deficits.

In my latest National Post column I say justified dismay at school shootings shouldn't prevent us from thinking clearly about what will or won't help stop them.

My segment with Mark Sutcliffe on CIWW 1310 in Ottawa on my National Post column on the worrying speed at which AI is getting away from us. (Also some discussion of Doug Ford and the Ontario PCs.)