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Daily Blogs for 11/2006
by Christopher Chantrill
James Webb's Class War(2) | 11/30/06
In his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, Democratic Senator-elect ...
Baby-Boomers Break the Budget | 11/30/06
What will happen as the baby boom generation retires? Will they break the budget and ...
The Boxed-in Democrats | 11/29/06
When they were in opposition in Congress the Democrats opposed, ferociously. Now they ...
Are The French Toast Yet? | 11/28/06
Is Europe toast, or merely warming up the toaster? Mark Steyn has advanced the theory ...
RMC Third World Index | 11/27/06
As you travel around the world how do you tell if you are in a Third World country or ...
Clamber over Angkor Wat, While You Still Can | 11/25/06
SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA —
You haven’t lived until you have seen the gigantic rush hours ...
Back From The Thai Jungle | 11/23/06
CHIANG MAI, THAILAND —
Out on the marches between Thailand and Myanmar the terrain ...
At The Royal Flora Expo | 11/21/06
CHIANG MAI, THAILAND — The Royal Flora Expo opened here November 1 in Thailand’s ...
First Impressions of Thailand | 11/20/06
ON THE ROAD IN THAILAND — It’s the roads, stupid. You drive for mile after mile, ...
Milton Friedman Dead at 94 | 11/17/06
Back in the 1960s and 1970s there were three high-profile economists in the United ...
Language Does Matter | 11/16/06
Language, we are taught, is an innate human ability. We have, according to Noam Chomsky, ...
Tsunami Lays Down 600 Ft High Deposit | 11/15/06
Here’s another reason to stop worrying about global warming, courtesy of The New York ...
A Cure for Health Woes | 11/15/06
OK, so we know that we can fix the education system with a dose of private enterprise. ...
Rudy's Leadership and Newt's Ideas | 11/14/06
The grave of Republican hopes in 2006 is scarcely filled in, but the hopefuls are lining ...
Pelosi's New Direction for America | 11/14/06
If you want to know what life will be like under a Democratic Congress, here is an ...
Clinton's Analysis of the Thumpin' | 11/13/06
Here is how Jeff Jacoby ...
Is Islam Strong or Just Brittle? | 11/13/06
Some people think that Islam is taking over the world. In America Alone, Mark ...
Let's Get Serious, Say Spy, Blair, and Noonan | 11/10/06
Now that the Democrats are back it’s Happy Days Are Here Again, right?
But yesterday ...
Looking Forward | 11/10/06
It’s too late now, but suppose that Congressional Republicans had followed President ...
Young People Support Civil Rights in Michigan | 11/09/06
Listen to the people, they say. As they reelected Democrat Governor Granholm and Senator ...
About Those Tough-guy Freshman Democrats | 11/09/06
What happens when all those freshman Democrats get to Washington. You know, the ones ...
Build An Agenda of Hope(1) | 11/08/06
Some Republicans are out blaming President Bush, Congressional Republicans, immigration ...
The Day After | 11/08/06
With at least a gain of 30 seats in the House of Representatives and a gain of 4 to 6 ...
Disaffected Reagan Democrats Call The Tune | 11/07/06
Remember the old Clinton campaign song? “Don’t Stop Thinking About ...
On Election Day | 11/07/06
It’s Election Day and pundit ...
Until Conservatives Can Influence Upper-Middle Class Opinion... | 11/06/06
During the Vietnam War, relates ...
Saddam Gets The Death Penalty | 11/06/06
You can say that Bush’s War is a disaster. You can say that it has roiled the Middle ...
Who Knew Rick Santorum Was a Nice Guy? | 11/03/06
Why do I get a feeling of déjà vu about ...
Get Real, America(1) | 11/03/06
Mad at the Republicans because they haven’t “done enough during their 12 years in control ...
Liberals Like Race-based Politics | 11/02/06
In the State of Michigan Jennifer Gratz and “wealthy black Republican” Ward Connerly are ...
"Call For Action" or "Dodgy Numbers" on Climate Change? | 11/02/06
Reading the British papers you’d think that it was all over bar shouting. The ...
SUV Sales Up at Ford | 11/01/06
Earlier this year the media reported that sales of the big truck-based SUVs were going ...
Should We Know How Journalists Vote? | 11/01/06
Talk show host Hugh Hewitt is making a career of asking MSM journalists the Question. ...
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
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 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.
Roberts, C.J., Parents Involved in Community Schools vs. Seattle School District
Liberal Coercion
[T]he Liberal, and still more the subspecies Radical... more than any other in these latter days seems under the impression that so long as he has a good end in view he is warranted in exercising over men all the coercion he is able[.]
Herbert Spencer, The Man Versus the State
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
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
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
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
Moral Imperatives of Modern Culture
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.
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
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
Government Expenditure
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?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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
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
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