I Am A Passport-carrying Citizen Of The

I Don't Have Any Shame.

[canada's Social Welfare System Is] An Overgenerous Reinsurance Policy For An Underachieving People.

While Few Judges Or Prosecutors Would Be Afraid To Exercise Their Perfectly Legitimate Discretion In Favour Of An Ordinary Man, Not To Mention A Minority Group Member, Most Would Be Terrified To Exercise The Same Discretion For Someone Politically, Financially Or Socially Powerful.

We Must Express The View, Based On Our Empirical Observations, That A Substantial Number Of Journalists Are Ignorant, Lazy, Opinionated, And Intellectually Dishonest. The Profession Is Heavily Cluttered With Aged Hacks Toiling Through A Miasma Of Mounting Decrepitude And Often Alcoholism, And Even More So With Arrogant And Abrasive Youngsters Who Substitute 'commitment' For Insight. The Product Of Their Impassioned Intervention In Public Affairs Is More Often Confusion Than Lucidity.

I Always Keep A Firewall Between My Own Travails And My Perception Of Public-policy Issues; Otherwise I Would Retain No Credibility As A Commentator.