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America's Polarized Politics
by Christopher Chantrill
USED TO BE that liberals were liberals before they were Democrats, and conservatives were conservatives
before they were Republicans. Not any more. The extinction of the Southern Democrats means that
all the conservatives live in the Republican Party, according to
Bruce Bartlett.
On top of that is the little problem for the Democrats that the middle class votes for the Republican Party.
The moderate Democrats are trying to understand what is going on, unfold
Reacting to Globalization
by Christopher Chantrill
TONY BLANKLEY puts the French “non” in the context of
“globalization and its reaction.” Everyone is putting their
own spin on the event, just as everyone put their spin on the results
of the presidential election last fall. But
Blankley
asks us to step back a little
and think more generally.
But globalization and its reaction are the big facts of our era. The Islamist insurgency and terror is part of that reaction. Pat Buchanan´s unfold
Charter School Tipping Point?
by Christopher Chantrill
ARE WE APPROACHING the tipping point on charter schools? The point at which the hard up-hill slog against powerful interests like the teachers´ unions and liberal gate-keepers suddenly breaks through the barriers? There´s a political storm brewing in New York that might be the hurricane that sweeps all before it. A New York State assemblyman has realized that there may be more political mileage in supporting choice in education than in opposing unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 05/30/05 8:00 pm ETUndereducated of the World Unite!
by Christopher Chantrill
STRAIGHT FROM the reading room of the Library of Congress comes this manifesto from “Karl” Brooks. “In the information age, in which knowledge is power and money, the class struggle is fought between the educated elite and the undereducated masses.” Yes. How true. “The educated class has torn away from the family its sentimental veil and reduced it to a mere unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 05/29/05 8:00 pm ETWhat's Wrong With Single Moms?
by Christopher Chantrill
THE BRITS ARE having a media frenzy over a family of single moms. Julie, single mother of three girls
is now the proud grandmother of three grandchildren, one each from her daughters, who became single mothers at age 12, 14, and 16.
What´s wrong with that, asks aging feminist
Germaine Greer?
What indeed? Apart from the trifling $50,000 a year in various government benefits.
Let us leave aside the unfold
Hansen to US Critics: You are Boring
by Christopher Chantrill
FED UP WITH PepsiCo CFO Indra Nooyi and her middle-finger insult to the US? Pissed off by the Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan who incited the Koran riots? Victor Davis Hanson is too. And he has advice for international elitists that scorn the US. Shuck it off. Cleanse yourself of the $5 million job at Pepsi. Forswear the filthy western lucre that you earn playing international cricket. Otherwise, you are like all the rest that criticise the West but wallow in unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 05/26/05 8:00 pm ETWaPo: Wow! House Rules Committee Rules
by Christopher Chantrill
THE WASHINGTON Post publishes an article that concludes that Republicans,
having won Congress and the presidency, now have more power. Yes, this is startling. But
there is more. Apparently
they now, according to reporter
Jim VandeHei, control the Rules Committee in the House of Representatives and this gives
them control of legislation in the House. Another shocker.
But here is the corker. Some Republicans think that unfold
Return to Sanity? or Craven Sellout?
by Christopher Chantrill
MOST CONSERVATIVES and Republicans are outraged by the moderate compromise that was brokered in the Senate Monday night. But Dick Morris reminds us that the average voter hates all the partisan posturing and vitriol, and that a return to sanity was desperately needed. He points out that the Democrat signatories were overwhelmingly from Southern states that could easily elect a Republican to the Senate at the next election. They need a way to escape from the unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | print | 05/24/05 8:00 pm ETSuppose Blacks Deserted the Democrats?
by Christopher Chantrill
DEMOCRATS CANNOT afford to lose the black vote. “If the share of the black vote that goes
to the Democrats ever falls to 70 percent, it may be virtually impossible
for the Democrats to win the White House or Congress,” writes
Thomas Sowell.
That makes it “possible to understand [the Democrats´]
desperate efforts to keep blacks paranoid, not only about Republicans
but about American society in general.”
You can understand the unfold
Another Tipping Point
by Christopher Chantrill
THE DAY THAT 8 million Iraqis voted for freedom was the day that
Keith Thompson left the left. He wanted a world in which we could
focus on creating healthy, self-actualizing individuals
committed to taking responsibility for their lives, developing their talents,
honing their skills and intellects, fostering emotional and moral intelligence,
all in all contributing to the advancement of the human condition.
And he could no longer unfold
Why are Liberal Journalists like Muslims?
by Christopher Chantrill
YOU´D EXPECT that political philosopher
Mark Steyn
would have the answer and you would be right.
He is talking about the Koran flushing incident, of course. Did you know that it unfold [Both] the U.S. media and
those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar,
two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes living in isolation from the rest of
the world and prone to fanatical irrational indestructible beliefs.
Real People Get Hurt When MSM Misfires
by Christopher Chantrill
OUR BELOVED media enjoy a special privilege. They don´t get to pay damages for
journalistic negligence as a physician or an engineer has to. They are special.
Unfortunately, as many elites have mistakenly imagined over the centuries, that doesn´t
mean that they are specially blessed by God (or history, or the people, or the wretched of the earth)
to minister to the great unwashed.
It means that they have special responsibilities. As Spidey learned, with great power comes
great responsibility.
Experts Shocked by Public's Optimism
by Christopher Chantrill
AMERICANS ARE astonishingly optimistic, according to a new
poll reported by Jennifer Harper.
82 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 feel optimistic about their futures; 82 percent of those ages 25 to 44 do so as well; and 75 percent of those ages 45 to 64 and 64 percent of those 65 or older agree.
The experts are worried. What would happen if Americans stopped being optimistic? “`We believe this personal optimism is sort of a unfold
Warning: Egalitarians are At It Again
by Christopher Chantrill
THE RICH ARE getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. It´s the center
of the left´s argument. In Marx, it surfaced as the “immiseration” theory, that
the workers would get poorer and poorer over time—because of capitalism.
Now Bruce Bartlett detects a new line from the left
as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (news division) report, in the same week, on
class mobility stalling out. Yes, everyone is
getting unfold
Solar Tower of Power
by Christopher Chantrill
THE AUSSIES are going to build a 3,000 ft high solar power generator.
according to Dr. Roy W. Spencer.
No doubt you liberal environmentalist chappies are ecstatic. Why, think
of the potential for arresting global warming! But somehow, I don´t see,
say, Senator Reid (D, NV) rushing up to propose a Tower of Power in the
Nevada desert flanked by representatives of the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and
the Wilderness Society. Anyway, here´s the officical Tower of Power
Steyn: RU1-2? John Bolton Isn't, and That's His Problem
by Christopher Chantrill
REMEMBER THE tsunami relief effort? You do? Then you´ll probably be shocked
to learn that containers full of aid are sitting on the dock in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, while
customs inspectors riffle through the paperwork. Canada pledged $425 million
in aid, and so far has dispatched $0.05 million. Yes, that´s forty thousand out
of four hundred million.
It all makes sense, writes
Mark Steyn.
As long as you fill out your form RU1-2 to show
you are part of the unfold
European Death Spiral
by Christopher Chantrill
HERE IN THE US the mainstream media is tut-tutting about an economic pause as
growth declines to 3.1 percent on an annual rate. But in their favorite global
region, Europe, growth is really pausing, down at 0.4 percent, and in Italy, they are
having a real recession.
So what could be the problem in good old Europe? Could it be taxes? Could
it be government spending? Could it be restrictive labor markets? Or could
it be all three? In fact, to stretch a point, could the problem
be that the Europeans have exactly the economic unfold
Snapshot of the American People
by Christopher Chantrill
HERE´S A LOOK at the American people in 2005, courtesy of
The Pew Research Center.
Dividing us up into three blocs, Left, Right, and Center, we look
like this:
by Christopher Chantrill THE LATEST thing is health tourism. Go to India to get your procedure done
at 25 percent, 50 percent, maybe 75 percent off prices in the US. And maybe you will recover from
your hip replacement
enough to take in the sights before you come home. An elephant ride in Jaipur,
perhaps.
Val McQueen
has your tickets ready. Maybe the night sky will soon be rumbling with squadrons
of gigantic Airbus A380s flying wingtip-to-wingtip from Europe to Delhi, full of
geezers like unfold by Christopher Chantrill SO YOU THOUGHT that the filibuster was a 214-year tradition of the good
old Senate now being threatened by evil theocratic Republicans? Not exactly.
Lee Harris
traces its actual history, through the pre-civil war rantings of John Randolph,
the pre-World War I anti-war speeches of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. and
“the willful 11,” onto the segregationist filibusters of the
1940s and 1950s. In each case, the Senate rules were changed to de-fang
the unfold by Christopher Chantrill REMEMBER THE good old days when liberals thundered their moral outrage to
the reverberate hills? (A little bit of Shakespeare for you DWM aficionados.)
When they were unafraid and bellowed truth to power?
Well things are different now, at least in the modern, tenured, $40,000-per-year-tuition university.
Confronted with the outrageous grading
practices of a departmental college, here´s how a modern, scholarly academic responded,
according to provocateur
David unfold by Christopher Chantrill WHAT WILL THE media world be like in 2014? A couple of journalists,
Matt Thompson of the Fresno Bee and Robin Sloan of Current, a new cable news channel in San Francisco, have
produced a “mockumentary” called “EPIC 2014,” that prophesies the dominance of
Googlezon, a merger of Google and Amazon. There won´t be any media as
we know it. Googlezon will customize news and features for each customer in
its new feature EPIC, the “Evolving Personalized Information Construct,” gathering news
and video from unfold by Christopher Chantrill EVEN THOUGH the Brits are highly taxed, they don´t seem to feel it. But
what you can see, by reading the local newspaper and taking a stroll down
a British High Street is that it´s the world capital of crime.
“That´s post-socialist Britain: materially prosperous,
but civically impoverished; wealthy villages and
upscale suburbs full of frustrated and impotent citizens.”
Mark is offering this apercù to all evil
right-wing politicians, free of unfold by Christopher Chantrill LEFTY ACTIVIST and author of anti-globalist bible No Logo
Naomi Klein
sees the Iraq invasion as a dark plot to sic the American Enterprise Institute
and the Cato Institure on the Iraqi people so they could practice their radical
free-market ideas on them. Now Iraq is shackled to the IMF
and World Bank that are “demanding the elimination of Iraq’s
food ration program,
upon which 60 percent of the population depends for nutrition,
as a condition for debt unfold by Christopher Chantrill CONSERVATIVE Jewish pundit
Don Feder
wonders why, if Democrats are anxious
to open a dialog with religious Americans, they are piling on the hate speech
against the “Religious Far Right,” the “far-right fundamentalists,” and so on.
He observes that:
“The cover story in the May issue of Harper’s Magazine screams
of `The Christian Right’s War On America.´
Try to imagine a reputable publication doing a story
about `The Jews´ War On unfold by Christopher Chantrill AUTHOR BRIAN C. Anderson does an interview with
Jamie Glazov from Frontpagemag.com, telling the story
of how he came to write South Park Conservatives and what to expect
in the culture wars in the near unfold by Christopher Chantrill ÜBERPUNDIT
Mark Steyn
doesn´t really like it, but he figures Tony Blair will win the British election
on Thursday. The voters have fallen out of love with Tone, but they haven´t
fallen in love with anyone else. Not yet. To relieve the gloom, Mark
offers up this:
“The problem with the war on terror is that once it was framed
as an existential struggle for Western civilization,
it was all too predictable that the left would act as it
did the last time unfold by Christopher Chantrill THE COMMENTARIAT´S chief disciple of Franz Rosenzweig has been exercised
by the changing of the guard at the Catholic Church. Like everyone else,
he has some
advice
for the new pope. The word from Spengler? Don´t open the priesthood to women.
In general Spengler is in favor of equality for women, if for no other reason
that if you don´t give women what they want they will punish you for it.
“Nonetheless, ordaining female priests at this moment in history would unfold by Christopher Chantrill AFTER THE ELECTION Democrats said that they would start to pay attention
to religious voters. But when religious voters they didn´t like dared to
show up on the public square, Democrats threw a cow. How dare Senator Frist
address a religious rally called Justice Sunday, they complained,
according to
Morton Kondracke.
So Democrats respect religious voters but want to anathematize the Republicans
that speak to them. Writer Alan Wooldridge reports that during the unfold [T]he way “to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis,”
Brown II, 349 U. S., at 300–301, 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.
[In the] higher Christian churches… they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it every minute. [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. 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... What distinguishes true Conservatism from the rest, and from the Blair project, is the belief in more personal freedom and more market freedom, along with less state intervention... The true Third Way is the Holy Grail of Tory politics today - compassion and community without compulsion. These emerge out of long-standing moral notions of freedom, benevolence, and the affirmation of ordinary life... I have been sketching a schematic map... [of] the moral sources [of these notions]... the original theistic grounding for these standards... a naturalism of disengaged reason, which in our day takes scientistic forms, and a third family of views which finds its sources in Romantic expressivism, or in one of the modernist successor visions. There was nothing new about the Frankish drive to the east... [let] us recall that the continuance of their rule depended upon regular, successful, predatory warfare. The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township? The recognition and integration of extralegal property rights [in the Homestead Act] was a key element in the United States becoming the most important market economy and producer of capital in the world. The primary thing to keep in mind about German and Russian thought since
1800 is that it takes for granted that the Cartesian, Lockean or Humean scientific and
philosophical conception of man and nature... has been shown by indisputable evidence to be
inadequate.
The incentive that impels a man to act is always some uneasiness...
But to make a man act [he must have]
the expectation that purposeful behavior has the power to remove
or at least to alleviate the felt uneasiness.
Revelations cannot be sustained and transformed into successful new religions by lonely prophets... Indeed, new religious movements based on revelations typically are family affairs. mysql close 0
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VotersGet a Hip Replacement in India, and Take in the Taj
The Real History of the Filibuster
See No Evil, Hear No Evil...
When Hayek's Extended Order Goes Virtual
Steyn: It's The Bars Over The Windows, Stupid
Lefty Naomi Klein Mourns End of Ration Program in Iraq
Bigotry: You'll Find it on the Left
Interview with "South Park Conservative" Brian Anderson
Steyn: Blair Will Win
Spengler: No Women Priests, Thank You
Dems Don't Get Religion
Racial Discrimination
Roberts, C.J., Parents Involved in Community Schools vs. Seattle School District
Churches
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
Sacrifice
Frederick Turner, Beauty: The Value of Values
Pentecostalism
David Martin, On Secularization
Conservatism's Holy Grail
Minette Marrin, The Daily Telegraph
Moral Imperatives of Modern Culture
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
Drang nach Osten
Richard Fletcher, The Barbarian Conversion
Government Expenditure
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Living Law
Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital
German Philosophy
F.S.C. Northrop, The Meeting of East and West
Action
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Holy Families
Rodney Stark, Exploring the Religious Life
