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Daily Blogs for 6/2005
by Christopher Chantrill
NYT: Take a Powder, Dems | 06/30/05
The nation´s newspaper of record finally said it. Responding to a letter
“from an ...
Free Education for Africa? | 06/29/05
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown want the rich countries to donate $7 billion a year for ...
NY Times Notices Ireland | 06/29/05
Did you know that Ireland is the richest country in Europe? You did?
No doubt you ...
Let's Teach Liberals the Virtue of a Dead Constitution | 06/29/05
How do you like your constitution? Living or dead?
Conservative ...
All Power Corrupts... | 06/28/05
Just in time for the contradictory Supreme Court decisions regulating the public display ...
Ignore that Laffer Behind the Curtain | 06/27/05
Democrats are still holding their hands in front of their eyes refusing to believe in the ...
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 ...
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
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
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
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
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