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Daily Blogs for 4/2009
by Christopher Chantrill
Schmers "Family Values" Remarks | 04/30/09
Everyone on the right has got their knickers in a twist over Sen Check Schumer’s ...
Thirty Years After Thatcher | 04/29/09
Today London Telegraph columnist ...
Let' Play "Political Greed" | 04/28/09
Here at Road to the Middle Class we are constantly thinking of ways to shine a light ...
Red Meat for the Left | 04/27/09
The big problem for any political leader is the care and feeding of the base. ...
Too Big to Fail? Break It Up! | 04/24/09
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz usually produces left-wing screeds ...
Michael Milken's Capital Seminar | 04/23/09
Remember Michael Milken? Back in the 1980s he was the Junk Bond king. Then he went ...
usgovernmentspending.com: The Story.(1) | 04/22/09
Look. At usgovernmentspending.com ...
usgovernmentspending.com Goes to a Tea Party(1) | 04/20/09
As I was handing out business cards for ...
MSM and Blood in the Water | 04/17/09
In Britain they’ve been enjoying a week of political blood sports. Prime ...
At the Seattle Tea Party | 04/16/09
I went down to the Seattle Tea Party at Westlake Park in downtown Seattle on April 15, ...
I'm a Right-wing Extremist | 04/16/09
Just in case you chaps at the ...
Don't Rag on Britain's Tories | 04/15/09
Britain’s Tories aren’t a suitable model for US conservatives. That’s ...
Announcing Tea Party Fact Sheet on USGovernmentSpending.com | 04/14/09
You remember the line from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, delivered by the ...
Big Labor's Card Check in Trouble | 04/13/09
Well, well, well. After all the money and the volunteers that Big Labor poured into ...
Passion and Compassion(1) | 04/10/09
Today is Good Friday, the holiest day in the Christian calendar. It marks the ...
The Elite's Undistracted Life | 04/09/09
Why do our liberal friends all sing with one voice in the matter of abortion? ...
Why Did He Do It? | 04/08/09
The question is: Why? Why did he do it? Why did President Obama abandon his promise ...
Partisan Divide Deepens Under Obama | 04/07/09
So now we know. Despite his promise to heal the partisan divide in America, President ...
Obama's Political Kitsch | 04/06/09
Even the Brits are starting to notice. The Daily Telegraph’s ...
Why Have Government Do Anything? | 04/03/09
The growing Tea Party movement means something. But what? Is it just an ...
White House Chicago Politics | 04/02/09
What would we do without Karl Rove? President Bush’s chief political aide ...
Hugh Hewitt Boosts Talk Radio | 04/01/09
Radio talk-show hosts come in different colors and sizes. There are the former ...
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
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
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
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
Civil Society
“Civil Society”—a complex welter of intermediate institutions, including businesses, voluntary associations, educational institutions, clubs, unions, media, charities, and churches—builds, in turn, on the family, the primary instrument by which people are socialized into their culture and given the skills that allow them to live in broader society and through which the values and knowledge of that society are transmitted across the generations.
Francis Fukuyama, Trust
Class War
In England there were always two sharply opposed middle classes, the academic middle class and the commercial middle class. In the nineteenth century, the academic middle class won the battle for power and status... Then came the triumph of Margaret Thatcher... The academics lost their power and prestige and... have been gloomy ever since.
Freeman Dyson, “The Scientist as Rebel”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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