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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 ...
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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