In BOE Report I say Alberta premier Jason Kenney should not have put a prominent advocate of carbon taxes in a key job. To a large extent personnel is policy so this is a worrying appointment.

In my latest National Post column I object to the hypocrisy of press releases in which staff falsely claim their politician boss is deeply engaged with some day of this or festival of that whose details they had to Google after an automated reminder to pander over it popped up..

In BOE Report I say the tactics that seem loudly to be winning the debate for climate alarmism might quietly be losing it instead.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I express dismay, with the PEI election as the latest example, at the foolishness politicians and commentators spout about the profession they’re meant to understand.

In a piece in C2C Journal that I forgot to post at the time, I argue that social licence sounds good, or did until we discovered you couldn’t get one. But in fact it’s just another way of saying “tyranny of the majority” which is bad in principle and worse in practice because it means mob rule by a fanatical minority

In my latest National Post column I say there’s nothing racist about calling Islamist terrorism a far bigger threat than the white nationalist kind… especially when most victims of Islamist violence aren’t white.

“Some apparent advantages followed for a season from a rule which had its origin in a violent and perfidious usurpation, and which was upheld by all the arts of moral corruption, political enervation, and military repression. The advantages lasted long enough to create in this country a steady and powerful opinion that Napoleon the Third's early crime was redeemed by the seeming prosperity which followed. Not often in history has the great truth that ‘morality is the nature of things’ received corroboration so prompt and timely.”

John Morley On Compromise

“How come dumb stuff seems so smart while you’re doing it?”

Dennis the Menace, quoted in NCC Overview Winter 2002