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Daily Blogs for 8/2008
by Christopher Chantrill
Sarah Palin, the Real Thing from Alaska | 08/29/08
At first blush Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) seems like an unlikely choice as running ...
Obama Wows His Supporters, At Least | 08/29/08
Obama supporters seem as pleased as punch this morning after his acceptance speech at ...
Dems Just Don't Like Free Speech | 08/28/08
First it was the outrage over the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. How dare they attack ...
Bill is Still the Champ | 08/28/08
What else can you say after Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention? President ...
But She Just Isn't Likeable | 08/27/08
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) did a workmanlike job in her speech last night on the ...
Ted's a Liberal and Michelle's a Mom | 08/26/08
That’s what we learned at the Democratic National Convention on Monday ...
Dems Cheer Criticism of Teacher Unions! | 08/25/08
Have our Democratic friends reached an inflection point on ...
McCain's Luck or Smarts? | 08/22/08
How did he do it? How did Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) come from a campaign written off as ...
Let's Not Repeat The New Deal Follies | 08/21/08
A couple of years ago Amity Shlaes wrote The ...
BritCons Challenge Labour on "Fairness" | 08/20/08
Every conservative knows about “fairness.” That’s the line that our ...
Rick Warren's "Civil" Project | 08/19/08
Most people agree that it was Roe v. Wade that created the Christian Right. ...
Left Tries a Bit of Swiftboating | 08/19/08
What is “Swiftboating?” According to ...
Obama's "Pay Grade" | 08/18/08
Our liberal friends do a pretty good job obfuscating the line between law and morality ...
A Look at the Obama Economy | 08/15/08
You think? After three years of a lackluster Obama administration a resurgent Senator ...
Protect the Government University from Bigots! | 08/14/08
You gotta love the fun that columnist ...
Dems and Their Special Interests | 08/13/08
The way our Democratic friends tell it, Big Oil and Big Drug are evil special ...
How's Your Soft Power Today? | 08/12/08
Back in the good old days the lilberal Joseph Nye regaled us with the importance of ...
Life without Newspapers Will Be Just Fine | 08/11/08
Life is rough for the folks in the metropolitan newspaper business, and some people ...
Lopez Lomong: US Soft Power | 08/08/08
Our liberal friends, led by Joseph Nye and his book ...
Catch 22 on Drilling | 08/07/08
Our Democratic friends, led by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), insist that we can’t ...
McCain and the Internet | 08/06/08
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) don’t know nothin’ about the internet. Doesn’t ...
Dueling Energy Futures | 08/05/08
Republicans believe that we should let the market figure out the future of energy. ...
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 | 08/04/08
What can we say about ...
Good Old Rush | 08/01/08
Rush Limbaugh was just getting into a riff about the stupidity of Sen. Barack ...
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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