Blogs for 2006 - Road to the Middle Class

National Savings Down, But National Wealth Up. Explain | 02/20/06
Last year the US savings rate was the lowest since the Great Depression, according to the ...

WSJ Sneers at Newt | 02/19/06
First Newt Gingrich was a dangerous “bombthrower.” Then he was the bombastic Speaker of ...

Islamic World Choosing Segregation from West | 02/17/06
When African Americans first started entering selective colleges in significant numbers ...

After Cheney Tantrum Is MSM Still Relevant? | 02/16/06
Will the Bush Administration get away with stiff-arming the Mainstream Media over the ...

A Small Step for Dynamic Tax Analysis | 02/15/06
President Bush has budgeted “an additional $513,000 for the Treasury Department’s Office ...

Hugh Hewitt Demolishes Jonathan Chait(1) | 02/14/06
On Monday, talk show host Hugh Hewitt ...

What Do Muslims Really Think? | 02/13/06
President Bush has implemented a policy of bringing democracy to the Middle East. But, ...

A Moderate Muslim Speaks. And How | 02/12/06
Have you been waiting for a moderate Muslim to speak out on the Cartoon Wars? Look no ...

Can Compassionate Conservatism Win in Britain? | 02/10/06
George W. Bush ran for president in 2000 as a “compassionate conservative.” Annoying to ...

Low Fat is Out -- Government Study(1) | 02/09/06
In the largest study ever conducted into the efficacy of low-fat dieting the result is ...

Go Ahead Democrats. Insult the President Why Don't You | 02/08/06
Here’s how the ...

Global Cooling on the Way | 02/07/06
Russian scientist Khabibullo ...

Ask a Tough Question of a Senator... | 02/07/06
As we all know, it is the objective news journalists who ask the tough questions. We ...

Don't Be Victims, Muslims! | 02/06/06
It is dispiriting to see how weak-kneed the liberals are about the Muslim rioting. Let a ...

Why The Economy is Doing Better Than You Think | 02/06/06
Wonder why the US dollar manages to defy gravity with the twin deficits, the federal ...

Ready for Polyamory Yet?(2) | 02/03/06
Same sex marriage, polygamy, polyamory. What are the liberals up to? For some time ...

What About The Democrats? | 02/02/06
Everyone is counting out the Democrats this week after their defeat in the Battle of the ...

Twas a Famous Victory | 02/01/06
Republicans enjoyed a well-earned victory lap last night, giving President Bush a manly ...

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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

Hugo on Genius

“Tear down theory, poetic systems… No more rules, no more models… Genius conjures up rather than learns… ” —Victor Hugo
César Graña, Bohemian versus Bourgeois

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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