Blogs for 2006 - Road to the Middle Class

Chicago to Wal-Mart: We Dont Need Your Stinkin' Jobs | 01/27/06
Everyone agrees that Democrats are on the side of the little guy. Without Democrats and ...

Peggy Noonan Worries About the Short Term | 01/26/06
In her regular Thursday column, ...

Boys and Books and Marriage and Abuse | 01/25/06
In the past week we’ve seen The New Republic worry about ...

Joel Stein Doesn't Get It | 01/25/06
Everybody is having a grand old time with young ...

Not Your Father's Economy | 01/24/06
What is going on with the nation’s economy? Now that the era of motors and steel is ...

NYT: Bush Reads Books! But... | 01/23/06
We all know that President Bush is an ignoramus. So when it is reported that the First ...

Did Hillary Blunder on Race? | 01/23/06
Hillary Clinton made a great gift to the nation when her absurd Hillarycare went down in ...

Hybrid Tax Cuts for Rich Liberals | 01/20/06
It isn’t enough that liberals make out like bandits working for the government earning 40 ...

Do Not Expect School Choice, Ever, From Left | 01/20/06
The movement to roll back the government education monopoly has received a check recently ...

The Next Generation of Fatherless Boys | 01/19/06
It isn’t much fun, but someone has to report on the pestilence unleashed by the culture ...

The Index of Economic Freedom 2006(2) | 01/18/06
What’s the best way to turn a poor nation into a rich nation? ...

Birgit Nilsson Dies: End of an Era | 01/17/06
She died on Christmas Day 2005, aged 87, in the village in southern Sweden where she was ...

Abused Girl Doesn't Make Good: Government Child Protective Services AWOL | 01/17/06
Sorry about that, old chap. Could have happened to anyone. Not our fault. That seems ...

Abused Girl Makes Good Despite Failure of Child Protective Services(3) | 01/16/06
British barrister Constance Briscoe is a poster child for the meritocratic society. ...

The End of the Bork Era | 01/13/06
Nineteen years ago, Senator Edward Kennedy rushed onto the floor of the United States ...

Democrats Smear Alito: What's the Point? | 01/12/06
Why do they do it? Why are national politicians like Senators Kennedy and Schumer ...

The Global Problem of the Natural Resource States | 01/11/06
There is a difference between a state like the United States and a state like Saudi ...

Lefty Professors Don't Get It | 01/10/06
While the pontificators are pontificating for the cameras at the Alito nomination ...

Sam Alito: Independent Jurist or Conservative Extremist? | 01/09/06
It is Monday morning, and the Democrats are threatening filibuster, according to ...

Naomi Wolf: She admits she was wrong | 01/09/06
God bless Naomi ...

What is Our Mideast Strategy? | 01/06/06
Democrats have been complaining for years that the US went into Iraq without a plan for ...

NYT Brides Stay Home with Babies | 01/05/06
What do women want? It’s a question that men have puzzled over since the dawn of time. ...

Evangelicals are Different: They Give More Money | 01/04/06
One of the reasons that Americans give so much to charity compared to others is that a ...

Success in 2005: an Iranian View | 01/03/06
Whether or not Iran (the name means land of the Aryans) and the Iranian people are the ...

A New Year: Why We Fight | 01/02/06
Why not start out the new year with a good dose of Why We Fight from ...

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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

Faith and Politics

As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not negotiable... [1.] protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death; [2.] recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family... [3.] the protection of the right of parents to educate their children.
Pope Benedict XVI, Speech to European Peoples Party, 2006

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”

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

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”

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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