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Daily Blogs for 1/2006
by Christopher Chantrill
Take the Kossies Out to the Woodshed | 01/31/06
Look, I don’t have a dog in this fight, but what exactly was the point of the ...
God is Love says German Pope | 01/30/06
First we had a Polish pope who told the people of Eastern Europe “Be Not Afraid.” Now we ...
Mozarts Geburtstag: Amateurs Playing Mozart | 01/27/06
Everyone is doing their Mozart piece today, the 250th anniversary of his birth. The ...
Chicago to Wal-Mart: We Dont Need Your Stinkin' Jobs | 01/27/06
Everyone agrees that Democrats are on the side of the little guy. Without Democrats and ...
Peggy Noonan Worries About the Short Term | 01/26/06
In her regular Thursday column, ...
Boys and Books and Marriage and Abuse | 01/25/06
In the past week we’ve seen The New Republic worry about ...
Joel Stein Doesn't Get It | 01/25/06
Everybody is having a grand old time with young ...
Not Your Father's Economy | 01/24/06
What is going on with the nation’s economy? Now that the era of motors and steel is ...
NYT: Bush Reads Books! But... | 01/23/06
We all know that President Bush is an ignoramus. So when it is reported that the First ...
Did Hillary Blunder on Race? | 01/23/06
Hillary Clinton made a great gift to the nation when her absurd Hillarycare went down in ...
Hybrid Tax Cuts for Rich Liberals | 01/20/06
It isn’t enough that liberals make out like bandits working for the government earning 40 ...
Do Not Expect School Choice, Ever, From Left | 01/20/06
The movement to roll back the government education monopoly has received a check recently ...
The Next Generation of Fatherless Boys | 01/19/06
It isn’t much fun, but someone has to report on the pestilence unleashed by the culture ...
The Index of Economic Freedom 2006(2) | 01/18/06
What’s the best way to turn a poor nation into a rich nation? ...
Birgit Nilsson Dies: End of an Era | 01/17/06
She died on Christmas Day 2005, aged 87, in the village in southern Sweden where she was ...
Abused Girl Doesn't Make Good: Government Child Protective Services AWOL | 01/17/06
Sorry about that, old chap. Could have happened to anyone. Not our fault. That seems ...
Abused Girl Makes Good Despite Failure of Child Protective Services(3) | 01/16/06
British barrister Constance Briscoe is a poster child for the meritocratic society. ...
The End of the Bork Era | 01/13/06
Nineteen years ago, Senator Edward Kennedy rushed onto the floor of the United States ...
Democrats Smear Alito: What's the Point? | 01/12/06
Why do they do it? Why are national politicians like Senators Kennedy and Schumer ...
The Global Problem of the Natural Resource States | 01/11/06
There is a difference between a state like the United States and a state like Saudi ...
Lefty Professors Don't Get It | 01/10/06
While the pontificators are pontificating for the cameras at the Alito nomination ...
Sam Alito: Independent Jurist or Conservative Extremist? | 01/09/06
It is Monday morning, and the Democrats are threatening filibuster, according to ...
Naomi Wolf: She admits she was wrong | 01/09/06
God bless Naomi ...
What is Our Mideast Strategy? | 01/06/06
Democrats have been complaining for years that the US went into Iraq without a plan for ...
NYT Brides Stay Home with Babies | 01/05/06
What do women want? It’s a question that men have puzzled over since the dawn of time. ...
Evangelicals are Different: They Give More Money | 01/04/06
One of the reasons that Americans give so much to charity compared to others is that a ...
Success in 2005: an Iranian View | 01/03/06
Whether or not Iran (the name means land of the Aryans) and the Iranian people are the ...
A New Year: Why We Fight | 01/02/06
Why not start out the new year with a good dose of Why We Fight from ...
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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