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Daily Blogs for 1/2007
by Christopher Chantrill
It's a Conservative not a Republican Problem | 01/31/07
A lot of conservatives have been blaming the feckless Republican Congress for ...
Here Comes The Eco-industrial Complex | 01/31/07
You have to feel for the climate change enthusiasts. If George W. Bush can spend $100 ...
French Candidate Holds Rally in London | 01/30/07
Imagine, if you can, the next Republican candidate for the presidency campaigning in ...
The Party of Resentment | 01/30/07
As you may know by now, Hillary Clinton “really resents” that Bush’s War may not be ...
The Lessons of the Michigan Civil Rights Victory | 01/30/07
In Michigan last November the voters spoke loudly on the question of race, affirmative ...
PHP Arrays and XML-RPC | 01/30/07
Are you frustrated by the XML-RPC technology? Having trouble figuring how to get a ...
The Rule of the Idiots | 01/29/07
Suppose that you applied for health insurance and the insurance company said that ...
A "Civ-Con" Is Born | 01/29/07
It must be a measure of the breadth and depth of the American conservative movement ...
Why Tolerance Is Not Enough For Gays | 01/28/07
Ordinary people may wonder at the energy with which gays advocate for “gay ...
Middle-Class Secret of Success | 01/26/07
Democrats like ...
Let's Get Serious About Energy | 01/26/07
Why do we keep on this chimera of “energy independence?” Ever since the oil shock ...
No Sex Please, We're Married | 01/25/07
Everybody knows that back in the bad old days husbands and wives never saw each ...
Ben Stein: They are Lynching My President | 01/25/07
There was American ...
It's For The Children | 01/25/07
Conservatives often complain about the way that liberals always say ...
President Bush's Health Care Proposals | 01/24/07
In his State of the Union ...
President Bush Sets Up Republican Retreat | 01/24/07
The key question, after the Republican defeat last November, is how President Bush plans ...
Milton Friedman, E-mailer | 01/23/07
Back in July 2006 the Wall Street Journal was emailing ...
Behind the NYT Happy Single Women Story | 01/23/07
Good show for the New York Times. Their story on single women reported ...
What Should We Do About Education? | 01/22/07
After a century of government education we still have large swathes of the population ...
Collapsing Venezuela. Who Cares? | 01/22/07
Now that the price of oil is going down we shall start to see ...
"Have Your Baghdad Civil War Without Us" | 01/19/07
What is the difference between a serious commentator and an unserious one? ...
A Small Step towards Education Reform | 01/19/07
The New York City Department of Education is taking a small step towards reform. ...
Why Isn't The President Fighting For His Plan? | 01/18/07
Radio talk-show ...
In Defeat: Defiance or Renewal? | 01/18/07
Winston Churchill famously advised: “In victory: magnanimity; in defeat: defiance.” ...
French Lefties Dodging Wealth Tax | 01/18/07
You feel a bit guilty about it. After all, we conservatives shouldn’t be ...
Democrats Out Of Ideas | 01/17/07
We’ve already looked at the agenda-less Democrats here at Road to the Middle Class, and ...
Michelle Malkin in Baghdad | 01/17/07
A few weeks ago conservative columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin took out ...
Too Hot or Too Cold?(1) | 01/16/07
How should Congressional Republicans behave? As pit-bulls or as ...
A Bollywood Marriage -- Made in Heaven? | 01/16/07
Let’s analyze the announcement that has all India dancing in the streets, the ...
When Underclass Pathology Reaches into the Middle Class | 01/15/07
The thing about underclass pathologies is: Who Cares? It’s all so far ...
Has Bush Blundered into Victory? | 01/15/07
Did the Bush administration blunder into the best policy in the Middle East? ...
People are Getting Better and Better. | 01/12/07
Back in the 1500s there was nothing people liked more than a good old ...
The Politics of Stem Cell Research | 01/12/07
Yesterday the House of Representatives passed a bill that expands the federal presence ...
Bush Admits Mistake, but Strategy Stays The Same | 01/11/07
President Bush admitted last night that he should have increased the troops in ...
Is Bush's Troop Surge All For "McNaught?" | 01/11/07
Last night President Bush announced a troop surge for Iraq, and all Americans wish him ...
Happiness Needs a Sense of Control | 01/10/07
Everyone worries about happiness these days, and in Britain, Tory leader David Cameron ...
Chavez. What Planet is He On? | 01/10/07
You have to wonder. After a century of socialism, thug dictators are still ...
Are the Democrats for Real | 01/10/07
What is it that really worries Republicans and conservatives as we lick our wounds ...
AJAX and The innerHTML Problem(1) | 01/10/07
Here at Road to the Middle Class we are nothing if not modern. That means that ...
Dont Forget Most Old Media is Union Shop | 01/09/07
Dear old TIME magazine is slimming down, according to The New York Times. ...
Do You Believe in Education Myths? | 01/09/07
With something as politicized as education you always wonder about what you read in ...
Let's Not Blame Conservatives On Education | 01/08/07
Oprah is getting a bit of flak because she is funding a school for ...
Stand Firm on Social Security! | 01/08/07
Is the new Democratic Congress a big deal? Is it going to change the political ...
"Broken Windows" Eat My Dust | 01/06/07
It had to happen. Sooner or later some criminal justice entrepreneur would consign the ...
Tasteless Atheists | 01/05/07
There have been a lot of books written by atheists about the folly of religion ...
The Cars at the Detroit Auto Show | 01/05/07
Which is more important? The news, according to ...
Speaker Pelosi pledges partnership | 01/04/07
Today the Democrats formally took control of Congress as Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as ...
A Lesson in Race Relations | 01/04/07
We've all heard the one about Jesse Jackson admitting that, when he's being ...
Come Back to Class, Says Duke Administration | 01/04/07
Oh good. Now that newly elected Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong has withdrawn ...
File This Under "Climaco Case" | 01/03/07
OK, I admit it. When the New York Times gets in trouble, I enjoy it. The ...
The Economist Discovers Pentecostalism | 01/03/07
At the Road to the Middle Class we believe that a critical ...
Poor Kids Do Better In Selective Schools | 01/02/07
Back when the Brits declared war on their selective secondary school system Prime ...
A Look at the "New Anger" | 01/02/07
Which side is angrier, left or right? ...
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
US Life in 1842
Families helped each other putting up homes and barns. Together, they built churches, schools, and common civic buildings. They collaborated to build roads and bridges. They took pride in being free persons, independent, and self-reliant; but the texture of their lives was cooperative and fraternal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Society and State
For [the left] there is only the state and the individual, nothing in between. No family to rely on, no friend to depend on, no community to call on. No neighbourhood to grow in, no faith to share in, no charities to work in. No-one but the Minister, nowhere but Whitehall, no such thing as society - just them, and their laws, and their rules, and their arrogance.
David Cameron, Conference Speech 2008
Socialism equals Animism
Imagining that all order is the result of design, socialists
conclude that order must be improvable by better design of some superior mind.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
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
Religion, Property, and Family
But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family.
Thus the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family, (and also anti-religion), is not promising.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
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
Postmodernism
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ’merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy
Physics, Religion, and Psychology
Paul Dirac: “When I was talking with Lemaître about [the expanding universe] and feeling stimulated
by the grandeur of the picture that he has given us, I told him that
I thought cosmology was the branch of science that lies closest to religion.
However [Georges] Lemaître [Catholic priest, physicist, and
inventor of the Big Bang Theory] did not agree with me. After thinking it over he
suggested psychology as lying closest to religion.”
John Farrell, “The Creation Myth”
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
Never Trust Experts
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Lord Salisbury, “Letter to Lord Lytton”
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
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