Blogs for 2005 - Road to the Middle Class

The Kids: Professors Worry About Right-Wing Students | 12/31/05
What do the professors think about the lurch to the right in the past decades, and what ...

Everyone Worries About Deficits | 12/29/05
The federal deficit is terrible. The trade deficit is worse. How long can it go on? ...

The Dear Old MSM in Their Liberal Bubble | 12/28/05
Conservatives love to twit the mainstream media for their bias and their insularity. And ...

Muslims Don't Read Western Media | 12/27/05
Should we forget the Bush strategy of using cold hard steel to push back the Islamist ...

Now We Can Fight Back | 12/26/05
It used to be there was little we could do if The New York Times put a lump of ...

A Christmas Story from the Land of the Elves | 12/23/05
At Christmastime it is right and proper that we step back from the hurly burly of ...

Will "Kos" Lead Democrats Off a Cliff? | 12/23/05
Who is Markos Moulitsas and what does he want? That is what Democrats must be asking ...

Is the Worm Turning in NY Subways? | 12/22/05
Studies show that state and local government workers earn about 40 percent more than ...

Unsustainable Medicare | 12/21/05
As commentator ...

The Joys of National Health Care | 12/20/05
Our neighbor to the north has a government monopoly system of health care. In Canada you ...

President Bush Rallies the Nation. Why Did He Wait? | 12/19/05
There are many who must wonder. Why did ...

Bush in Bubble Racks Up Another "W" | 12/16/05
There he sits, the incurious President Bush, isolated from Congress and living in a ...

Who Needs Literacy | 12/15/05
About 14 percent of adults in the United States cannnot perform a simple reading task ...

Hugh Hewitt Pops MSMer's Bubble | 12/15/05
Be sure to check this interview of LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik by ...

Your Bubble is Bigger Than My Bubble | 12/14/05
President Bush lives in a bubble. That is the breathless conclusion of Newsweek ...

After the Iraq Election, Then What? | 12/13/05
When you bring a nation back from the dark night of terror, you have to do it step by ...

If Fathers Had "Choice" | 12/12/05
If women deserve “choice,” then why shouldn’t men enjoy comparable rights to order ...

President to Take Credit for Good Economy | 12/12/05
Now you’re talking. The White House is sending out the word that the president is going ...

What Would Hayek Do? | 12/09/05
In Britland they are worrying about the consequence of cranking up the government share ...

Teen Sex Leads to Depression in Girls | 12/09/05
We all know, because liberals have taught us, that sexual restraint is harmful, leading ...

Talk Up The Economy | 12/08/05
In the last fiscal year federal revenues came in $100 billion above the estimates of the ...

New Party Leader Addresses Brit "Broken Society" | 12/07/05
Ten years ago British Prime Minister Tony Blair turned the Labour Party away from its ...

The Mind of the Left | 12/06/05
What is it like to belong to the left? How does the left think? Conservatives ponder ...

Does Iraq Have an Army? | 12/05/05
In the Atlantic ...

Vive l'Empereur!(1) | 12/02/05
December 2, 2005 is the bicentennial of the Battle of Austerlitz, Napoleon’s greatest ...

Gloom and Doom on the Economy | 12/02/05
What is going on with the economy? On the one hand, GDP is growing at 3.5 to 4.0 percent ...

Phonics Wins in Britain | 12/01/05
In case you were worrying, here’s some good news. The Brits just decided to give up on ...

Advice to the Ankle-biters | 12/01/05
Many on the right have criticised the president for not doing enough to maintain support ...

Why GM Failed | 12/01/05
The great achievement of General Motors, writes ...

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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

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

China and Christianity

At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing

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

Class War

In England there were always two sharply opposed middle classes, the academic middle class and the commercial middle class. In the nineteenth century, the academic middle class won the battle for power and status... Then came the triumph of Margaret Thatcher... The academics lost their power and prestige and... have been gloomy ever since.
Freeman Dyson, “The Scientist as Rebel”

Conservatism

Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority — the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says ‘we should...’.
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity

Conservatism's Holy Grail

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.
Minette Marrin, The Daily Telegraph

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

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

Drang nach Osten

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.
Richard Fletcher, The Barbarian Conversion

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

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

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