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Daily Blogs for 7/2006
by Christopher Chantrill
Eclipse 500 Gets Preliminary Certification | 07/31/06
Even as the Mideast goes up in flames, Eclipse Aviation marked a big milestone as the FAA ...
A Snapshot of Men without Work | 07/31/06
For decades we have been taught, nay ordered to believe that the unemployed were helpless ...
Chemerinsky Joins Plame Game | 07/28/06
Politics ain’t beanbag, they say. When you go into politics, you had better expect rough ...
The Bolton Kerfuffle Resumes | 07/27/06
President Bush has nominated of John Bolton to be reappointed as UN Ambassador, and ...
Children are Boring. Discuss(2) | 07/27/06
Half a century ago, in her Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir called woman “the victim ...
Washington State Supreme Court Upholds DOMA | 07/27/06
With the 5-4 decision of the Washington State Supreme Court upholding the state’s Defense ...
Is Religion vs. Science a Red Herring? | 07/26/06
While we battle in the public square about whether religious belief can coexist with ...
Humiliation After Humiliation | 07/26/06
Are we in a war with the Islamists? ...
GDP Up 20 pct. You Gotta Problem With That? | 07/25/06
How much economic growth is enough? Writes ...
Can the Left Abandon Appeasement? | 07/25/06
Back in 2004 the German writer ...
Is The West Too Soft To Be Ruthless? | 07/25/06
Conservatives are taking a look today at the meaning of “proportionality.” Asks ...
Who Can Cross the Partisan Divide? | 07/24/06
As Connecticut Democrats get ready to sink their liberal Democratic senator Joe ...
Who Stands for the Jews? | 07/24/06
Everybody loved the Jews when they were helpless victims slaughtered in the Holocaust. ...
Public Opinion on Lebanon | 07/24/06
After the shock of the new Mideast War we are beginning to see public opinion forming in ...
Anyone for "Mongolian Ping Pong?" | 07/23/06
I have seldom been so delighted by a movie as “Mongolian Ping Pong.” It’s a delightful ...
Two Views of Hezbollah | 07/21/06
Which is it? Is Hezbollah a homegrown political movement that has organized the ...
The 100 mpg Car That Isn't | 07/21/06
Our liberal media friends are getting all excited about the birth of the 100 miles per ...
The Black Divide | 07/21/06
This week President Bush finally spoke at the NAACP convention and received, according to ...
How About Some Liberal Villains on TV | 07/20/06
The Business and Media Institute has done a study on the treatment of businesspeople on ...
No Wal-Mart Law for Maryland | 07/20/06
Good news. On July 19, a federal district court judge threw out Maryland’s Wal-Mart ...
Making War Against a Tribal Culture | 07/19/06
In the season of Nicholas Wade’s Before the Dawn we appreciate that primitive man ...
SecEd Launches Vouchers, Bureaucrats Run Interference | 07/19/06
What a coicidence! Just before Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announces a new ...
Government Fails to Educate NJ Kids | 07/19/06
Widower Van-Ness Crawford and a number of other parents have sued the State of New Jersey ...
"We Don't Want to Fight" | 07/18/06
It’s not just me. It’s all the conservatives who are deploring the “cycle of violence” ...
NYT Clearing Throat Over Mideast "Conflict" And More | 07/17/06
You know that when the cat gets its voice back at the New York Times that ...
Two Different Worlds | 07/17/06
If you watch CNN you are no doubt worried about the “escalation of violence” in the ...
The Flaws of the Famous, Then As Now | 07/14/06
Hum. We think we are so modern and special, uniquely privileged and uniquely ...
How Important is a College Education? | 07/14/06
Everybody knows that to compete in the job market these days you need a college ...
Experts Rank Global Warming as Minor Problem | 07/14/06
Everyone is concerned about global warming, even Republicans, writes ...
When the Missiles Start to THAAD | 07/13/06
The short road from the current border clashes between Israel and its Hamas and Hizbollah ...
Feminists Against Choice | 07/13/06
In Michigan the state legislature recently passed a bill to permit single-sex programs in ...
A Republican Brawl in 2008? | 07/12/06
After President Bush is goes “a Republican Party known for ideological solidarity is on ...
Religious Left At Prayer | 07/12/06
You wonder about our liberal friends when they agitate for more social programs with fine ...
A Word About Our Fighting Marines | 07/12/06
We conservatives honor our troops. “Thank you for your service,” is the constant refrain ...
How American Racism Works | 07/11/06
Conservative radio talk-show host ...
MSM Doesn't Get Freedom of the Press | 07/11/06
It is interesting to follow Hugh Hewitt’s ...
The Future of Marriage Seen from 1926 | 07/10/06
Eighty years ago advanced people were beginning to understand “that the emancipation of ...
Iraq Getting On Its Feet | 07/10/06
What is happening in Iraq? With Sunnis appearing to be ready to cry Uncle and end their ...
New York Times Says Boys Underperforming in College! | 07/10/06
Now even the folks at The New York Times admit it. Boys aren’t doing too well in ...
A Nation of Shoplifters | 07/09/06
They used to sneer at the Brits as a Nation of Shopkeepers. That’s what the Germans ...
Ken Lay: RIP But Still a Crook | 07/07/06
Did you know that in Enron’s home town of Houston they regard the Enron collapse as a ...
Job Growth Moderating; Or Is It? | 07/07/06
Today’s announcement by the ...
Brits Rail at US While Teen Thugs Run Riot | 07/07/06
The Brits have a rather poor opinion of the United States, according to ...
Liberals Miffed As Canine Cultural Studies Wins Course-of-the-Month | 07/06/06
Liberals like to say that university faculties are overwhelmingly liberal because ...
Missile Defense Train Has Left the Station | 07/06/06
On the Fourth of July as North Korea launched six rockets into the skies of eastern Asia ...
Theocracy and the Religious Right | 07/05/06
I listened to Randall Balmer today on the Michael Medved Show talking about his book ...
So's Your Liberal Mother | 07/05/06
Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times are out with a poll today about a Mormon as ...
Celebrating Our Nation State | 07/04/06
As we mark another anniversary of our great Declaration of Independence in joyous ...
The Internet is Amazing(1) | 07/03/06
It’s the little things that matter. That is what women have been telling men for ages. ...
Conservatives Take Academic Freedom from Liberals | 07/03/06
If you listen to liberals—and I do, very carefully—you sense that “academic ...
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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