Blogs for 2005 - Road to the Middle Class

Democrats Shocked: Blair Kid to Intern with GOP | 06/26/05
When Tony Blair´s kid Euan decided to try for an internship with Congress, where do you ...

Steyn: Burn Baby Burn | 06/26/05
What do you think we conservatives are? Wimps? You think we need a flag-burning ...

Mehlman Accepts the Challenge | 06/25/05
The Republican faithful always complain that Republican leaders have no spine, that they ...

Did the Profs Cry Uncle? | 06/24/05
All of a sudden, according to ...

Beware of Close Relationships | 06/23/05
Marriage is a problem. On that we can all agree. And so a number of people have decided ...

French-bashing on Sartre's Centenary | 06/22/05
Conservative ...

What's The Point? | 06/22/05
News reports indicate that House Republicans are drafting a Social Security bill that ...

Cheer Up Chaps! | 06/21/05
Ever since the election, conservatives have been down in the dumps. Cheer up, ...

Victim of the Welfare State | 06/20/05
For over a century progressives have dined out on the misery of the poor. It was all ...

Laffer Rides Again | 06/19/05
Remember the Laffer Curve, the curve that economist ...

The Science of Free Trade | 06/16/05
Democrats had a grand time in 2004 congratulating themselves as being the party of ...

Productivity Rules the World | 06/16/05
Why is the US the most advanced industrial nation in the world? Because of ...

Our Favorite French Babe | 06/15/05
Any time you want, link to Liberté Chérie, ...

Benefit Fraud in Old Europe | 06/14/05
For over a century conservatives have struggled against the welfare state´s claim to be ...

HSAs Equal First Party Payment | 06/13/05
Experts agree that the “third party” payment system in health care is one of ...

Democrats Still Don't Get The Eighties | 06/13/05
What are the lessons to be learned from the Eighties? In an interview with John Ehrman, ...

Jesus Fights AIDS | 06/12/05
There is one thing that cannot be true, must not be true for our liberal friends. And ...

The Tipping Point: $24,000 | 06/12/05
The new Democratic group Third ...

Fear and Loathing in Manhattan | 06/09/05
Let us not get mad at Howard Dean for tagging the Republican Party as ...

Smart Guys on Janice Rogers Brown | 06/08/05
Judging from the mournful comments of left-wing law school professor Erwin Chemerinsky, ...

Bush Stays on Message | 06/08/05
According to American strategy expert John Boyd, we have two options in life: “To ...

Democrats Not Sure About Judge Compromise | 06/07/05
Two weeks ago conservatives were mad as hell about the compromise on judicial filibusters ...

What Would President Hillary Be For? | 06/06/05
Global content provider Mark ...

Americans Like Their Religion Straight | 06/06/05
It´s an old story. Conservative, strict churches are growing, and liberal, secular ...

The Experts Can't Read | 06/05/05
The problem with our glorious empire of experts, where experts pronounce, and we the ...

The End of the Expert | 06/05/05
Experts gave us the defined-benefit pension, now dying in the bankruptcies of the steel ...

Forget the Dieting! | 06/02/05
Nutritionist Sandy Szwarc ...

Ryanair's Cost-cutting Frenzy | 06/01/05
Did you know that Mike O´Leary, boss of Europe´s Ryanair, has now stopped employees ...

Right Wing Noise Machine | 06/01/05
Now it is John Kerry that is complaining about the right-wing message machine that is ...

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Faith & Purpose

“When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of ages—they seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings...”
Finke, Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990

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

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

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

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

Knowledge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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