“When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.” – John B. Bogart, from Frank M. O’Brien, The Story of The [New York] Sun Nietzsche wrote that, “The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not […]
A Reversion to the Law of the Jungle
“What we today call the policy of appeasement was in fact the refusal on the part of the civilized leaders of France and England to abandon the politics of reason. They were sincerely convinced that by reasoning with Hitler, by making compromises with him, they could avoid the horrors of reversion to the law of […]
The Effect of Liberty on Individuals
“The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.” -Edmund Burke I’ve just read that Omar Khadr is suing the Canadian government for 20 million dollars. As it turns out, the Muslim who travels abroad […]
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.” –Victor Hugo Frank Zappa famously said that “There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has a longer shelf life.” The stupidity of those who yet insist that Islam is a religion of peace—that Islam does not create the terrorist, that […]
No Happy Ending and No Happy Beginning
“In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.” –Lemony Snickit, from ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ George Jonas, author of Vengeance, has written: “But is there something about Islam that is conductive to the formation of extremist sects and radical […]
These People Are Speaking a Strange Language
“These people are speaking a strange language. It is strange to me And strange, I think, even to themselves.” -Louis Simpson I am a lover of words. I have a collection of dictionaries. I love the way words can articulate meaning in just a certain way. In my Penguin Dictionary I found the word pronoid, […]
Where Our Frontier Lies Today
“When you think about the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover. You think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies today.” -Stanley Baldwin, July 30, 1934 Although Stanley Baldwin is remembered as being one of the “guilty men” for having attempted to appease Hitler prior to […]
A Person Who Consents
(Dedicated to Pamela Geller) “To a person who consents no injustice is done.” –Latin maxim It should be quite disturbing for all Canadians to read in the newspapers that Omar Khadr has been granted bail and, if the Federal Government’s attempt to have this bail order stayed is unsuccessful, he will be released into the […]
To Yearn for Ignorance
“…to yearn for ignorance is to embrace the wishful thinking of a child.” -Greg Iles, from Natchez Burning In his recent article in Canada’s National Post, Tom Blackwell reveals that the “tobacco industry has been waging a sort of religious war for decades, recruiting Islamic scholars and crafting theological arguments to counter a feared Muslim […]
This World Pregnant With Threats
“…try to answer the most urgent question, the question which torments all those who have happened to read our accounts: How much of the concentration camp world is dead and will not return, like slavery and the dueling code? How much is back or is coming back? What can each of us do so that […]