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Daily Blogs for 10/2005
by Christopher Chantrill
The Folly of Feminism | 10/31/05
Judging by her article in The New York Times Magazine about
the rough time women ...
Alito, Scalito | 10/31/05
Conservatives got what we asked for. In Appeals Court Judge Samuel A. Alito we
have a ...
The Lessons of Volcker and Greenspan | 10/29/05
As the quarter century of inflation-free prosperity under the monetary policies of ...
The Conservative Base Rejoins the Bush Team | 10/28/05
There’s a problem about belonging to a political base. Sometimes your party ignores you. ...
Miers Withdraws | 10/27/05
Today, October 27, Harriet Miers ...
The Global Education Mess | 10/26/05
We think that we have an education mess here in the United States with our education ...
Black and White Shame on Race | 10/26/05
There are two sides to the original sin of the United States of America: Negro slavery. ...
Name-calling Lefties | 10/25/05
We are all so well trained that we often forget just how much we are not
allowed to say. ...
The Fight for Economic Competence | 10/24/05
It’s been well said that, if the parties of the right stand for anything, they stand ...
Battle of Trafalgar | 10/21/05
Today, October 21, is a day that will live... in glory. It was this day two hundred ...
Out of the Mouths of Babes | 10/20/05
What really happened to those WMDs? And what really was the relationship between Al ...
Democrats Still Don't Get It | 10/19/05
Democrats are working hard on making a comeback in 2006 and 2008. But it is not clear ...
"Harmless" Drugs | 10/18/05
As parents and teachers coke our children up on Ritalin, retired
physician ...
Media Loses Heart | 10/18/05
Back in the good old days, when Ronald Reagan, the “amiable dunce,” was president, ...
Iraqis Vote For Constitution | 10/17/05
Early returns show that the Iraqi people ...
Thatcher's 80th Birthday | 10/14/05
They celebrated the 80th birthday last night of ...
Bush's Plan on Track in Iraq | 10/13/05
For about a couple of years now Democrats have pushed the line that the Bush ...
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Reforms | 10/12/05
What does the recent German election mean, in which the two main parties, the SPD and the ...
Low US Savings: Is It a Problem? | 10/12/05
One of the concerns of enlightened elite opinion recently has been a worry over the ...
Who Lost Delphi? | 10/11/05
On October 8, 2005,
Delphi, the auto ...
The New Tory Prince | 10/11/05
As the song goes, “I been down so long that down don’t worry me.” That
is what the ...
Happy Columbus Day | 10/10/05
How should we celebrate Columbus Day? As a celebration of western European values and ...
The President Plants a Stake in Iraq | 10/07/05
In his speech on Iraq on October 6, 2005, ...
Ronnie Barker R.I.P. | 10/06/05
They don’t make them like that any more, certainly not like ...
August Wilson R.I.P. | 10/05/05
In an era in which American theater has driven theatergoers to despair as it
panders ...
The Chavez Plan to Wreck Venezuela | 10/05/05
As we thrill to the excitements of US politics, let us not forget Venezuela as Hugo ...
49 Up: Oral History as it Happens | 10/04/05
Forty years ago Granada TV in Britain broadcast a documentary, Seven Up, about ...
Miers or Less: The Fight Goes On | 10/03/05
President Bush ...
The Underclass: Remember Them? | 10/02/05
Charles Murray published Losing Ground twenty years ago. In it he told how social ...
Society and State
For [the left] there is only the state and the individual, nothing in between. No family to rely on, no friend to depend on, no community to call on. No neighbourhood to grow in, no faith to share in, no charities to work in. No-one but the Minister, nowhere but Whitehall, no such thing as society - just them, and their laws, and their rules, and their arrogance.
David Cameron, Conference Speech 2008
Socialism equals Animism
Imagining that all order is the result of design, socialists
conclude that order must be improvable by better design of some superior mind.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
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
Religion, Property, and Family
But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family.
Thus the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family, (and also anti-religion), is not promising.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
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
Postmodernism
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ’merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy
Physics, Religion, and Psychology
Paul Dirac: “When I was talking with Lemaître about [the expanding universe] and feeling stimulated
by the grandeur of the picture that he has given us, I told him that
I thought cosmology was the branch of science that lies closest to religion.
However [Georges] Lemaître [Catholic priest, physicist, and
inventor of the Big Bang Theory] did not agree with me. After thinking it over he
suggested psychology as lying closest to religion.”
John Farrell, “The Creation Myth”
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
Never Trust Experts
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Lord Salisbury, “Letter to Lord Lytton”
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
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
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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