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Daily Blogs for 6/2007
by Christopher Chantrill
"The Way to Stop Discrimination" | 06/29/07
It’s located right at the end of Chief Justice John Roberts decision in ...
"An Incredible Week" | 06/29/07
Let’s just pause for a moment, because for conservatives this week has been ...
Dems Who Voted Against Cloture | 06/28/07
The Senate immigration bill didn’t just fail by a whisker. The vote ...
After Blair: It's the Culture, Stupid | 06/28/07
We know now that the Third Way was the left’s backhanded admission that the Reagan and ...
Can Government Deliver on Education? | 06/27/07
Tony Blair, everyone’s darling, has resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ...
Flip-flopping: Do We Care? | 06/27/07
Apparently there’s a lot of heat about flip-floppers in the Republican presidential ...
The Fix Is In | 06/26/07
As the Senate voted 64-35 to take up the immigration bill, we the unwashed have to ...
Michael Novak on Hillarynomics | 06/26/07
We’ve already cast a jaundiced eye on Hillary Clinton’s “on your own” ...
Global Warming: 4 Legs Good; 2 Legs Bad | 06/25/07
That’s basically what the Society of Environmental Journalists believes. They ...
Single Payer Means Filthy Hospitals | 06/25/07
Before we all collapse before the tightly reasoned ideas of Michael Moore and his ...
The Incredible Shrinking New York Times | 06/22/07
The trouble with being a national institution is that when you start going down the ...
What Do These Professors Want? | 06/22/07
The Wall Street ...
Hamas Wins Gaza: What Now? | 06/21/07
With Israel surrounded by proxies of Iran, what should they give away now? And ...
The Adolescent Cult of "Getting it Right" | 06/20/07
Journalist and writer David Halberstam, tragically killed in an auto ...
Follow the Money on Immigration | 06/20/07
What are the real issues on the current immigration bill? Milton Friedman said ...
"Women with Needs" Tells It All | 06/19/07
What kind of voter would you imagine that Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is ...
Republican Elite vs. Republican Voters | 06/19/07
Now that the Republicans are out of power in Congress and President Bush is a lame ...
Cameron Speaks, Media Underwhelmed | 06/18/07
David Cameron gave a speech in Tooting, London on Monday, ...
Democrats and Taxes. Again | 06/18/07
The Democrats plan to solve the problem of the Alternative Minimum Tax (it hurts the ...
Reid's "Incompetent" Gaffe | 06/15/07
So Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace that he was ...
Hollywood and Abortion | 06/15/07
Politically, we all know that Hollywood is pro-abortion. But, with the release ...
CAFE: Bad Ideas Never Die | 06/14/07
Back in the 1970s our august Solons thought it was time to issue a ukase to the auto ...
Russia: Coming to Terms With Reality | 06/13/07
Russians want to believe that their country is great. But the trouble is that it ...
Blair Whines About Media He Helped Create | 06/12/07
It really is too bad of Tony Blair to complain about the savagery of the modern ...
A Modest Marriage Proposal | 06/12/07
In Britain the Law Commission is worried about the rights of ...
Democrat Budget & New Taxes and Spending | 06/12/07
Does nobody care what the Democrats are proposing in their budget resolution? ...
It Couldn't Happen Here. Could It? | 06/11/07
You’d think that when you have a centralized Nataional Curriculum, like the British ...
Sarkozy allies head for landslide | 06/11/07
Count me among the amazed as the French voted overwhelmingly for reform in their ...
Bush Defines G-8 on Climate Change? | 06/08/07
The advance word on the G-8 meeting in Germany was that hostess Angela Merkel and ...
What Were They Thinking?(1) | 06/08/07
It’s easy to say that after the fact. You wonder: What planet are they on? ...
Could the Immigration Issue Hurt the Democrats? | 06/07/07
The usual procedure after a big showdown like the immigration bill that was just ...
Democrats on Bush's "bumper-sticker" war | 06/07/07
Democratic presidential candidates are pretty well all agreed that the war on ...
Ted Kennedy Bridge Joke(1) | 06/06/07
You can’t do enough Ted Kennedy bridge jokes, any more than you can have enough of ...
How Do You Spell Freedom? | 06/06/07
Back in the old days childhood was different. Kids had more freedom, ...
What the MSM Won't Tell You | 06/05/07
Abortion is a political issue so reports about medical research around the subject of ...
Daring to Use the F Word | 06/05/07
It’s not that surprising that the Republican candidates haven’t trotted out the F word ...
Dem Problem: How to Get Past the Crazies | 06/04/07
At least President Bush has the guts to brush off his entire Republican base in ...
Hillary Clinton "On Her Own" | 06/01/07
We’ve already expectorated here on Sen. Clinton’s characterization of President Bush’s ...
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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