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Daily Blogs for 11/2005
by Christopher Chantrill
Having It Both Ways | 11/29/05
You’ve got to hand it to veteran Democrats like Washington’s own Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA). ...
McCain without a McClue on Economic Policy | 11/28/05
Over the years Republicans and conservatives have wondered about Senator John McCain. ...
Rachel's Story | 11/28/05
Suppose you had been brutally raped back in 2002. Suppose you had battled back and had ...
Keeping the Home Computers Burning | 11/26/05
The Brits are having a spot of winter weather right now, what they call “snow chaos.” ...
Winning in Iraq | 11/25/05
What is going on in Iraq? Are we on the cusp of helping the Iraqis establish a ...
Be Thankful and Hope | 11/24/05
In the present season of conservative and Republican exhaustion it is easy to think that ...
An Old Reagan Hand Says GOP in Power Too Long | 11/23/05
Reagan aide Lynn Nofziger is now 81. It was forty years ago that he left his job as a ...
Pushing Back Against "Bush Lied" | 11/22/05
Although it is true that the Republicans direct all three branches of government and the ...
Government Workers Earn More | 11/21/05
Sixty-year-old baby boomers all across the nation are reporting a curious experience. ...
A Question of Belief | 11/18/05
As everyone knows, the world is moving progressively down a path of secularization, away ...
The War over Medicare Drugs | 11/17/05
In case you hadn’t noticed, November 15 marked the start of enrollment
for the new ...
The Senate Goes Wobbly | 11/16/05
With the United States Senate voting in one week to let ...
If Republicans Don't Stand for Tax Cuts... | 11/15/05
If there is one thing the Republican Party stands for it is tax cuts. That is because it ...
In Europe the Fire This Time | 11/14/05
Here’s the best piece yet on the French mess. ...
Trying to Explain the French and the World | 11/11/05
Does it seem cynical that, in the misery of the recent French riots, all the commentators ...
Steyn on Europe: It's the Demography, Stupid | 11/10/05
Don’t order the casket for Europe just yet, but it is time to start taking ...
Wait Till Next Year | 11/10/05
Everyone is busily projecting the results of this week’s election out to 2006
and 2008, ...
Hugo Chavez: What's the Point? | 11/09/05
The real problem with oil is not that it is despoiling the earth through global warming. ...
Wake Me When It's Over | 11/08/05
We live, most of us, most of the time, in a dream. So ...
Young Men Want to Fight for the Tribe | 11/07/05
Young men like to fight. That is a truth that has been obscured over the
last ...
Democratic Politicians and the Angry Left | 11/04/05
Conservatives are waking up this week to the possibility that our Democratic friends
may ...
The Failure of the Social Model | 11/03/05
Decades ago a much-loved European pleasure was to shake the head in
knowing ...
UN Discovers Property Rights for the Poor | 11/02/05
Here’s a man bites dog story. The United Nations is setting up a commission on ...
A Great Opportunity | 11/01/05
It was the fall of 1987 when Senator Edward Kennedy opened a new era in American ...
Faith & Purpose
“When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of ages—they seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings...”
Finke, Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990
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
Education
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State
Living Under Law
Law being too tenuous to rely upon in [Ulster and the Scottish borderlands], people developed patterns of settling differences by personal fighting and family feuds.
Thomas Sowell, Conquests and Cultures
German Philosophy
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.
F.S.C. Northrop, The Meeting of East and West
Knowledge
Inquiry does not start unless there is a problem... It is the problem and its
characteristics revealed by analysis which guides one first to the relevant facts and then,
once the relevant facts are known, to the relevant hypotheses.
F.S.C. Northrop, The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities
Chappies
“But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie
that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.”
—Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
Democratic Capitalism
I mean three systems in one: a predominantly market economy; a polity respectful of the rights of the individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and a system of cultural institutions moved by ideals of liberty and justice for all.
In short, three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Action
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.
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Churches
[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.
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
Conversion
“When we received Christ,” Phil added, “all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.”
James M. Ault, Jr., Spirit and Flesh
Living Law
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.
Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital
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