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Daily Blogs for 10/2007
by Christopher Chantrill
You've Got to be Kidding, Girls | 10/31/07
A decade or so ago we all laughed about political correctness. It was so stupid ...
Stuck on Stupid? Dems Want Carter Era Tax Rates(1) | 10/30/07
The central idea of the Reagan revolution was that punitive tax rates, like the 70 ...
NYT Hoping Religious Right Will Go Away | 10/29/07
It’s as regular as clockwork: the article in The New York Times reporting ...
"Limited Lives" of Media Professionals | 10/26/07
How can we best understand the Scott Thomas mess? Why did the editors at The ...
What is the Difference Between Kerry and Beauchamp? | 10/25/07
What’s the difference between ...
Government Worsens Hard Times | 10/24/07
Remember the story of the Great ...
The End of Socialized Medicine?(1) | 10/24/07
Just as Hillary Clinton is about to get her hands on the nation’s health-care ...
Not By Age, But Life Expectancy | 10/23/07
The government’s entitlements like Social Security are based on age ...
Will The Atheists' Plan Work? | 10/22/07
What with Governor-elect Bobby Jindal’s ...
A Tale of the Times | 10/19/07
As we battle on in the culture wars, trading barbs and op-eds back at headquarters, it ...
Civil Society in Iraq? | 10/18/07
When the United States first invaded Iraq you could tell that the Iraqis only knew to ...
Understanding the Risks We Take | 10/17/07
How do you know what risk you are taking? That’s the subject of a book by ...
Coercion in the Liberal University | 10/16/07
We all shake our heads at the absurdities of the movement ironically called political ...
Who's Phoney Now? | 10/15/07
Ever since the invention of the steam-driven printing press wise heads have advised ...
"But Critics Say" | 10/15/07
It was impressive to watch the network news on Friday as they marked the announcement ...
Damning Hillary with Faint Praise | 10/12/07
Many conservatives must be mulling over the same thoughts as ...
Their Jihad and Ours | 10/11/07
Ever since the seven century, we are all constantly reminded, jihad has been a one-way ...
Now We Are Six | 10/10/07
Used to be there was childhood and adulthood. Then there was old age. ...
Check the "Back Story" of every Dem Sob Story | 10/09/07
The right-wing blogosphere has been having a grand old time with the Democrats’ ...
Mendacity, the Mark of Decline | 10/08/07
Remember the good old days when Tennessee Williams wrote about the mendacity of the ...
Democrats' Pretzel Patriotism | 10/05/07
The fuss over Rush Limbaugh and the “phoney soldiers” (is it phoney or ...
Understanding the Left | 10/04/07
It’s a week in which leading Democrats have determined to demonstrate that ...
Paying for Health Care -- and Education? | 10/03/07
For a century we have lived with the idea that things like education and health care ...
Is Rush Limbaugh That Important? | 10/02/07
What’s the point? That’s the question I have. Why would Sen. ...
Obama revises plan on tax cuts | 10/01/07
All the Democratic presidential candidates started out firm in their determination to ...
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
Hugo on Genius
“Tear down theory, poetic systems… No more rules, no more models… Genius conjures up
rather than learns… ” —Victor Hugo
César Graña, Bohemian versus Bourgeois
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
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
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
Faith and Politics
As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not negotiable...
[1.] protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death; [2.] recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family... [3.] the protection of the right of parents to educate their children.
Pope Benedict XVI, Speech to European Peoples Party, 2006
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
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
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
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
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