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Rock Climbing is OK, But Vioxx is Not
by Christopher Chantrill
THOMAS SOWELL wonders why itīs ok to risk your neck rock-climbing, but not ok to risk a heart attack with the arthritis pain-killer Vioxx. The reason is that there are people in our society who want to take health decisions away from us. Why is that? Because there is enormous satisfaction in being part of the elite of “wiser and nobler people defenders of the downtrodden, protectors of the environment, advocates of peace and opponents of war. There unfold
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| 12/29/04 7:00 pm ETWaiting for the Emerging Majority
by Christopher Chantrill
JOHN JUDIS and Ruy Teixeira review the electionīs verdict on their Emerging Democratic Majority Naturally, they pronounce that everything is fine. Democrats are doing better with minorities, singles, and the college-educated. But what about the all-American process of assimilation, of minorities throwing off their victim status, de-hyphenating themselves and becoming Americans? Wouldnīt they become Republicans? Thatīs what unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/28/04 7:00 pm ETSteyn: A Vote for Activist Judges
by Christopher Chantrill
ACTIVIST AMERICAN judges are a good thing, says Mark Steyn. Their anti-democratic ukases get everyone riled up so we can have a spirited national discussion of issues like abortion and gay marriage. In Britain thereīs no outrage about judge-made law because abortion and gay marriage get decided by Parliament. So thereīs no pitched battle over social unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/27/04 7:00 pm ETBack to the Issues
by Christopher Chantrill
LONDONīS DAILY Telegraph offers some thoughts about the Christmas story and the importance of the unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/26/04 7:00 pm ET'Twas the Wait Before Christmas
by Christopher Chantrill
A FORMER CHILD recalls the dreadful character-building “waits” for Christmas he endured as a boy. How did he, how did we, how did anyone manage to survive the trauma of being told to wait for Christmas? Perhaps thatīs why They want to eliminate Christmas. They fear the damage done to millions of youthful positive self-esteems by the hegemonic patriarchal injunction: “No, Johnny. Wait until unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/23/04 7:00 pm ETThe Experts and the Family
by Christopher Chantrill
WHEN CHILDREN die suddenly, who is to blame, and what is the standard of proof? The welfare state and its experts believe that they know more about child development than parents. So they decided to put a mother in jail on the basis of the statistical improbability of two crib deaths in the same family. Some might call it unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/22/04 7:00 pm ETDon't Worry About North Korea
by Christopher Chantrill
THIS WRITER suggests that the Chinese have about had it with Kim Jong Il and his pompadour hair. Korea is a tributary state, and it better get with the unfold
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by Christopher Chantrill
WHEN TEACHERS lose it with their students, then what? In the old days, the principal could deal with the problem in an informal process. Now it takes a formal review, and the kids know that they can create unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/19/04 7:00 pm ETDefending Christmas
by Christopher Chantrill
JEWISH PUNDIT Charles Krauthammer defends the celebration of Christmas from the anti-religious Scrooges. Donīt they get unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/16/04 7:00 pm ETMen With Kids Most Conservative
by Christopher Chantrill
A RECENT SURVEY of Election 2004 shows that the most conservative fraction of the nation is fathers with children. On the question “which presidential candidate shared their views about the direction American culture should be moving” fathers with children broke 77 percent to 18 percent for Bush over Kerry. Men without kids favored Kerry. Itīs the children, unfold
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What Liberals Think About Conservatives
[W]hen I asked a liberal longtime editor I know with a mainstream [publishing] house for a candid, shorthand version of the assumptions she and her colleagues make about conservatives, she didn't hesitate. “Racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-choice fascists,” she offered, smiling but meaning it.
Harry Stein, I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican
US Life in 1842
Families helped each other putting up homes and barns. Together, they built churches, schools, and common civic buildings. They collaborated to build roads and bridges. They took pride in being free persons, independent, and self-reliant; but the texture of their lives was cooperative and fraternal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Society and State
For [the left] there is only the state and the individual, nothing in between. No family to rely on, no friend to depend on, no community to call on. No neighbourhood to grow in, no faith to share in, no charities to work in. No-one but the Minister, nowhere but Whitehall, no such thing as society - just them, and their laws, and their rules, and their arrogance.
David Cameron, Conference Speech 2008
Socialism equals Animism
Imagining that all order is the result of design, socialists
conclude that order must be improvable by better design of some superior mind.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
Sacrifice
[Every] sacrifice is an act of impurity that pays for a prior act of greater impurity... without its participants having to suffer the full consequences incurred by its predecessor. The punishment is commuted in a process that strangely combines and finesses the deep contradiction between justice and mercy.
Frederick Turner, Beauty: The Value of Values
Religion, Property, and Family
But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family.
Thus the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family, (and also anti-religion), is not promising.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
Racial Discrimination
[T]he way to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis,
Brown II, 349 U. S., at 300301, is to stop assigning students on a racial basis. The way to stop
discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
Roberts, C.J., Parents Involved in Community Schools vs. Seattle School District
Postmodernism
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ’merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy
Physics, Religion, and Psychology
Paul Dirac: “When I was talking with Lemaître about [the expanding universe] and feeling stimulated
by the grandeur of the picture that he has given us, I told him that
I thought cosmology was the branch of science that lies closest to religion.
However [Georges] Lemaître [Catholic priest, physicist, and
inventor of the Big Bang Theory] did not agree with me. After thinking it over he
suggested psychology as lying closest to religion.”
John Farrell, “The Creation Myth”
Pentecostalism
Within Pentecostalism the injurious hierarchies of the wider world are abrogated and replaced by a single hierarchy of faith, grace, and the empowerments of the spirit... where groups gather on rafts to take them through the turbulence of the great journey from extensive rural networks to the mega-city and the nuclear family...
David Martin, On Secularization
Never Trust Experts
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Lord Salisbury, “Letter to Lord Lytton”
Mutual Aid
In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society
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