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Rock Climbing is OK, But Vioxx is Not
by Christopher Chantrill
THOMAS SOWELL wonders why itīs ok to risk your neck rock-climbing, but not ok to risk a heart attack with the arthritis pain-killer Vioxx. The reason is that there are people in our society who want to take health decisions away from us. Why is that? Because there is enormous satisfaction in being part of the elite of “wiser and nobler people defenders of the downtrodden, protectors of the environment, advocates of peace and opponents of war. There unfold
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| 12/29/04 7:00 pm ETWaiting for the Emerging Majority
by Christopher Chantrill
JOHN JUDIS and Ruy Teixeira review the electionīs verdict on their Emerging Democratic Majority Naturally, they pronounce that everything is fine. Democrats are doing better with minorities, singles, and the college-educated. But what about the all-American process of assimilation, of minorities throwing off their victim status, de-hyphenating themselves and becoming Americans? Wouldnīt they become Republicans? Thatīs what unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/28/04 7:00 pm ETSteyn: A Vote for Activist Judges
by Christopher Chantrill
ACTIVIST AMERICAN judges are a good thing, says Mark Steyn. Their anti-democratic ukases get everyone riled up so we can have a spirited national discussion of issues like abortion and gay marriage. In Britain thereīs no outrage about judge-made law because abortion and gay marriage get decided by Parliament. So thereīs no pitched battle over social unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/27/04 7:00 pm ETBack to the Issues
by Christopher Chantrill
LONDONīS DAILY Telegraph offers some thoughts about the Christmas story and the importance of the unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/26/04 7:00 pm ET'Twas the Wait Before Christmas
by Christopher Chantrill
A FORMER CHILD recalls the dreadful character-building “waits” for Christmas he endured as a boy. How did he, how did we, how did anyone manage to survive the trauma of being told to wait for Christmas? Perhaps thatīs why They want to eliminate Christmas. They fear the damage done to millions of youthful positive self-esteems by the hegemonic patriarchal injunction: “No, Johnny. Wait until unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/23/04 7:00 pm ETThe Experts and the Family
by Christopher Chantrill
WHEN CHILDREN die suddenly, who is to blame, and what is the standard of proof? The welfare state and its experts believe that they know more about child development than parents. So they decided to put a mother in jail on the basis of the statistical improbability of two crib deaths in the same family. Some might call it unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/22/04 7:00 pm ETDon't Worry About North Korea
by Christopher Chantrill
THIS WRITER suggests that the Chinese have about had it with Kim Jong Il and his pompadour hair. Korea is a tributary state, and it better get with the unfold
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by Christopher Chantrill
WHEN TEACHERS lose it with their students, then what? In the old days, the principal could deal with the problem in an informal process. Now it takes a formal review, and the kids know that they can create unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/19/04 7:00 pm ETDefending Christmas
by Christopher Chantrill
JEWISH PUNDIT Charles Krauthammer defends the celebration of Christmas from the anti-religious Scrooges. Donīt they get unfold
Sphere: Related Content | | perm | comment | | 12/16/04 7:00 pm ETMen With Kids Most Conservative
by Christopher Chantrill
A RECENT SURVEY of Election 2004 shows that the most conservative fraction of the nation is fathers with children. On the question “which presidential candidate shared their views about the direction American culture should be moving” fathers with children broke 77 percent to 18 percent for Bush over Kerry. Men without kids favored Kerry. Itīs the children, unfold
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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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