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Daily Blogs for 5/2005
by Christopher Chantrill
America's Polarized Politics | 05/31/05
Used to be that liberals were liberals before they were Democrats, and conservatives were ...
Reacting to Globalization | 05/31/05
Tony Blankley puts the French “non” in the context of
“globalization and ...
Charter School Tipping Point? | 05/30/05
Are we approaching the tipping point on charter schools? The point at which the hard ...
Undereducated of the World Unite! | 05/29/05
Straight from the reading room of the Library of Congress comes this manifesto from ...
What's Wrong With Single Moms? | 05/29/05
The Brits are having a media frenzy over a family of single moms. Julie, single mother ...
Hansen to US Critics: You are Boring | 05/26/05
Fed up with PepsiCo CFO Indra Nooyi and her middle-finger insult to the US? Pissed off by ...
WaPo: Wow! House Rules Committee Rules | 05/25/05
The Washington Post publishes an article that concludes that Republicans,
having ...
Return to Sanity? or Craven Sellout? | 05/24/05
Most conservatives and Republicans are outraged by the moderate compromise that
was ...
Suppose Blacks Deserted the Democrats? | 05/23/05
Democrats cannot afford to lose the black vote. “If the share of the black vote ...
Another Tipping Point | 05/22/05
The day that 8 million Iraqis voted for freedom was the day that ...
Why are Liberal Journalists like Muslims? | 05/22/05
You´d expect that political ...
Real People Get Hurt When MSM Misfires | 05/19/05
Our beloved media enjoy a special privilege. They don´t get to pay damages ...
Experts Shocked by Public's Optimism | 05/18/05
Americans are astonishingly optimistic, according to a new
poll reported by ...
Warning: Egalitarians are At It Again | 05/17/05
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. It´s the center
of the ...
Solar Tower of Power | 05/16/05
The Aussies are going to build a 3,000 ft high solar power generator.
according to ...
Steyn: RU1-2? John Bolton Isn't, and That's His Problem | 05/14/05
Remember the tsunami relief effort? You do? Then you´ll probably be shocked
to learn ...
European Death Spiral | 05/14/05
Here in the US the mainstream media is tut-tutting about an economic pause as
growth ...
Snapshot of the American People | 05/14/05
Here´s a look at the American people in 2005, courtesy of ...
Get a Hip Replacement in India, and Take in the Taj | 05/12/05
The latest thing is health tourism. Go to India to get your procedure done
at 25 ...
The Real History of the Filibuster | 05/11/05
So you thought that the filibuster was a 214-year tradition of the good
old Senate now ...
See No Evil, Hear No Evil... | 05/10/05
Remember the good old days when liberals thundered their moral outrage to
the ...
When Hayek's Extended Order Goes Virtual | 05/10/05
What will the media world be like in 2014? A couple of journalists,
Matt Thompson of ...
Steyn: It's The Bars Over The Windows, Stupid | 05/08/05
Even though the Brits are highly taxed, they don´t seem to feel it. But
what you can ...
Lefty Naomi Klein Mourns End of Ration Program in Iraq | 05/05/05
Lefty activist and author of anti-globalist bible No ...
Bigotry: You'll Find it on the Left | 05/04/05
Conservative Jewish pundit ...
Interview with "South Park Conservative" Brian Anderson | 05/02/05
Author Brian C. Anderson does an interview ...
Steyn: Blair Will Win | 05/01/05
Überpundit
Mark ...
Spengler: No Women Priests, Thank You | 05/01/05
The commentariat´s chief disciple of Franz Rosenzweig has been exercised
by the changing ...
Dems Don't Get Religion | 05/01/05
After the election Democrats said that they would start to pay attention
to religious ...
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
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
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
Holy Families
Revelations cannot be sustained and transformed into successful new religions by lonely prophets... Indeed, new religious movements based on revelations typically are family affairs.
Rodney Stark, Exploring the Religious Life
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