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LOTS OF people think that British Conservative Party leader David Cameron is a lightweight. I dont. Instead I see a strategic mind at work. This week, after cold-cocking the British Labour Party in the local elections and scoring a huge gain in the horse-race opinion polls, Cameron wrote an op-ed for the lefty Independent: We are the champions of progressive ideals. He throws down the gauntlet immediately. A painful reality is dawning on Labour MPs: in its longest unbroken period in office, Labour has done little to advance progressive ideals. A government that promised social justice and economic efficiency has in fact delivered neither, to the dismay of the Labour Party. Instead, it is the Conservative Party that is the champion of progressive ideals in Britain today. Look, he writes, nobody can deny that income redistribution has done a lot to alleviate poverty. But those methods have now run their course. The returns from big state intervention are not just diminishing, they are disappearing. In other words it is time for the left to admit that just throwing money at the poor doesnt help the poor. It is not lack of money that causes deprivation, it is lack of character. Something else is needed, and Conservatives know what it is. [W]e will use the modern mechanisms of civil society – whether its businesses that can really help get people trained and ready for work, social enterprises that get people permanently off drugs, or charities and community groups that can give couples the support they need when relationships come under pressure. For us its about the whole public realm, not just the public sector. As David Cameron has said, time and time again: There is such a thing as society. Its just not the same thing as the State. By forgetting that truth, first enunciated by Edmund Burke over two centuries ago, the progressive dream has guttered out into fumbling darkness. But there is a way out. If you care about poverty, if you care about inequality, if you care about the environment – forget about the Labour Party. It has forgotten about you. If you count yourself a progressive, a true progressive, only we [the Conservative Party] can achieve real change. The latest opinion poll has the Conservative Party ahead of the Labour Party by 49% to 23%. Talk about kicking a guy when hes down.
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FIRST HE discovered that conservative religious people give more, in Who Really Cares? Now Arthur C. Brooks is writing about happiness, according to Maggie Gallagher, and the happiest people arewait for itreligious conservatives. Really, this should surprise nobody. We know that the worst thing in the world is to have nothing to do and nothing to contribute. Naturally, unfold
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GREAT NEWS! Hillary Clinton, fighting for the people against the elites, vows to smash OPEC, according to Geoff Elliott.
"Were going to go right at OPEC," she told supporters in Merrillville, Indiana. "They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush place in the world, they decide how much oil theyre going to produce and what price theyre unfold
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| perm | comment | print | 05/07/08 11:42 am PT
THAT HILLARY Clinton is some smart girl. It was she, ten years ago, who fearlessly deployed her super-sniffer conspiracy detector during the Clinton impeachment scandal. She found nothing less than a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy determined to drive her husband out of office. When you work hard at something, you get to be pretty good at it. This last month, according to David unfold
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AFTER THE Conservative Partys local election win in Britain last week, Janet Daley asks: what next? The answer, she writes, involves reframing the debate. Gordon Brown (and liberals here in the US) want to say that the choice before us is between a party (his) that believes in "doing things" - taking people out of poverty, unlocking talent, etc, etc - and one that would prefer to "walk away" and leave people to get on with it. No, no, no. Conservatives have got to insist on a different unfold
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| perm | comment | print | 05/05/08 11:13 am PT
HERE WE go again. The Labor Departments Employment Situation Summary released today shows employment down by 20,000 jobsif you look at the Establishment Survey, the data obtained from employers. But if you look at the Household Survey, the survey of people, asking them whether they are employed or not, then you get a different story, a radically different story. In the Household Survey employment is up by a shattering 362,000 jobs. This number comes about unfold
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THANK GOODNESS for one thing. What with the spiraling increase in food prices the leaders of our beloved Congress are going to fight for the people against the powerful on ethanol.
They are going to lower ethanol subsidies, according to Stephen Dinan. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer allowed as how this was a case of unintended consequences. "The view was to look to alternatives and try to become more unfold
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FOR THOSE OF you worried about the start of solar Cycle 24, good news. A small sunspot recently appeared in the suns southern hemisphere. So it looks like the next sunspot cycle has well and truly started.
Meanwhile scientist Don J Easterbrook reports that the northern Pacific Decadal Oscillation has flipped, threatening 30 ...
Liberals are right about the Right-wing Noise Machine. ...
THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM among western cultural elites is that God is dead and we are well rid of him.... more
Andrew Coulson, Market Education
How universal literacy was achieved before government education
Carl Kaestle, Pillars of the Republic
How we got our education system
James Tooley, The Miseducation of Women
How the feminists wrecked education for boys and for girls
James Tooley, Reclaiming Education
How only a market in education will provide opportunity for the poor
E.G. West, Education and the State
How education was doing fine before the government muscled in
Hernando De Soto, The Mystery of Capital
How ordinary people in the United States wrote the law during the 19th century
F. A. Hayek, Law Legislation and Liberty, Vol 1
How to build a society based upon law
Henry Maine, Ancient Law
How the movement of progressive peoples is from status to contract
John Zane, The Story of Law
How law developed from early times down to the present
James Bartholomew, The Welfare State We're In
How the welfare state makes crime, education, families, and health care worse.
David Beito, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State
How ordinary people built a sturdy social safety net in the 19th century
David Green, Before Beveridge: Welfare Before the Welfare State
How ordinary people built themselves a sturdy safety net before the welfare state
Theda Skocpol, Diminished Democracy
How the US used to thrive under membership associations and could do again
David Stevenson, The Origins of Freemasonry
How modern freemasonry got started in Scotland
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing
How Christianity is booming in China
Finke & Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990
How the United States grew into a religious nation
Robert William Fogel, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
How progressives must act fast if they want to save the welfare state
David Martin, Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish
How Pentecostalism is spreading across the world
No masks, no daggers, no surprises
life is not as exciting as fiction. More boring: no rabbits, hats, bastard children.
George "Truman" Bush
when he left office, Truman was considered a failure.
Student Tests -- and Teacher Grades
the truth is: "teachers' unions just don't care about kids."
Who Will Stop Hillary
with Hillary saying that she has the broader coalition (white working people, white women) she's splitting the party. Someone must stop her, writes Peggy Noonan. Really? Seems to me they've had this coming for 30 years.
Death of the Alpha Leader
viral loops not manifestos
Work to restore the Road to the Middle Class. Heres how. Ground it in faith. Grade it with education. Protect it with mutual aid. Defend it with the law. more>>
The Road to the Middle Class is a journey from a world of power to a world of trust and love. In religion, it is a journey from power gods that respond to sacrifice and augury to the God who makes a covenant with mankind. In education, it is a journey from the world of the spoken word to the world of the written word. In community, it is the journey from dependence on blood kin and upon clientage under a great lord to the mutual aid and the rules of the self-governing fraternal association. In law it is the journey from the violence of force and feud to the king´s peace, the law of contract, and private property.
When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of agesthey seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings...
Finke, Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990
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
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
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
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
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
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
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