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Daily Blogs for 10/2007
by Christopher Chantrill
You've Got to be Kidding, Girls | 10/31/07
A decade or so ago we all laughed about political correctness. It was so stupid ...
Stuck on Stupid? Dems Want Carter Era Tax Rates(1) | 10/30/07
The central idea of the Reagan revolution was that punitive tax rates, like the 70 ...
NYT Hoping Religious Right Will Go Away | 10/29/07
It’s as regular as clockwork: the article in The New York Times reporting ...
"Limited Lives" of Media Professionals | 10/26/07
How can we best understand the Scott Thomas mess? Why did the editors at The ...
What is the Difference Between Kerry and Beauchamp? | 10/25/07
What’s the difference between ...
Government Worsens Hard Times | 10/24/07
Remember the story of the Great ...
The End of Socialized Medicine?(1) | 10/24/07
Just as Hillary Clinton is about to get her hands on the nation’s health-care ...
Not By Age, But Life Expectancy | 10/23/07
The government’s entitlements like Social Security are based on age ...
Will The Atheists' Plan Work? | 10/22/07
What with Governor-elect Bobby Jindal’s ...
A Tale of the Times | 10/19/07
As we battle on in the culture wars, trading barbs and op-eds back at headquarters, it ...
Civil Society in Iraq? | 10/18/07
When the United States first invaded Iraq you could tell that the Iraqis only knew to ...
Understanding the Risks We Take | 10/17/07
How do you know what risk you are taking? That’s the subject of a book by ...
Coercion in the Liberal University | 10/16/07
We all shake our heads at the absurdities of the movement ironically called political ...
Who's Phoney Now? | 10/15/07
Ever since the invention of the steam-driven printing press wise heads have advised ...
"But Critics Say" | 10/15/07
It was impressive to watch the network news on Friday as they marked the announcement ...
Damning Hillary with Faint Praise | 10/12/07
Many conservatives must be mulling over the same thoughts as ...
Their Jihad and Ours | 10/11/07
Ever since the seven century, we are all constantly reminded, jihad has been a one-way ...
Now We Are Six | 10/10/07
Used to be there was childhood and adulthood. Then there was old age. ...
Check the "Back Story" of every Dem Sob Story | 10/09/07
The right-wing blogosphere has been having a grand old time with the Democrats’ ...
Mendacity, the Mark of Decline | 10/08/07
Remember the good old days when Tennessee Williams wrote about the mendacity of the ...
Democrats' Pretzel Patriotism | 10/05/07
The fuss over Rush Limbaugh and the “phoney soldiers” (is it phoney or ...
Understanding the Left | 10/04/07
It’s a week in which leading Democrats have determined to demonstrate that ...
Paying for Health Care -- and Education? | 10/03/07
For a century we have lived with the idea that things like education and health care ...
Is Rush Limbaugh That Important? | 10/02/07
What’s the point? That’s the question I have. Why would Sen. ...
Obama revises plan on tax cuts | 10/01/07
All the Democratic presidential candidates started out firm in their determination to ...
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
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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