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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. ...
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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