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Daily Blogs for 12/2007
by Christopher Chantrill
Misunderestimated Again | 12/31/07
President Bush seems to understand what President Reagan understood before him. A ...
What Presidents Wear | 12/28/07
When the Duke of Wellington fought the Battle of Waterloo, he did not wear a ...
Liberal Fascism. So? | 12/27/07
The liberals are already reaching the tipping point on Jonah Goldberg’s ...
Is There a Conservative Future? | 12/26/07
In this time of conservative discontent, seers and pundits are peering into the ...
Xmas at the Party of Government | 12/21/07
You gotta love Hillary’s Xmas Card. I refuse to ...
Reconciliation In Iraq? | 12/20/07
Obviously something has changed in Iraq in the last year. The question is what, ...
Why Is It So Cold? Maybe the Sun? | 12/19/07
Everyone knows that the polar bears are in trouble and Greenland is about to melt ...
Ripping the Republican Big Tent Apart(2) | 12/18/07
Fifty years ago the US conservative movement began in a fusion between Burkean ...
Huckabee Sucks Up to Liberals | 12/17/07
They say that presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, despite his aw-shucks manner is a ...
Hewitt Peels a Brokaw | 12/14/07
Radio talk-show host ...
What is the Meaning of Change?(1) | 12/13/07
When the Democrats talk about "Change," what do they mean? ...
Michael Novak for Romney | 12/13/07
Readers of RMC will know that Michael Novak is one of our RMC Chappies. ...
Can Obama Really Solve Everything? | 12/12/07
Many conservatives have been annoyed by the intrasigence of Democrats during the Bush ...
We Interrupt This Message | 12/11/07
The shocking thing about the actions of New Life Church member Jeanne Assam’s ...
Is Huckabee a Liberal Plant? | 12/10/07
If you are like me you haven’t been too impressed by Mike Huckabee. Just ...
Libs Ante Up in War on Terror | 12/07/07
Many conservatives are angry about the naked political slanting in the latest National ...
Romney's American Creed | 12/06/07
You can read the MSM’s hostility to religion any time you open a newspaper or ...
Gingrich pushes platform in Iowa | 12/05/07
Newt’s in Iowa and running for VP. He’s also pushing his latest ...
Derb Admits He's Bored With Election | 12/04/07
The federal government makes such a mess of everything that there’s not much any ...
Chavez Loses Vote--Just | 12/03/07
Let’s give one cheer for the failure of President Hugo Chavez to make himself ...
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
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
Sacrifice
[Every] sacrifice is an act of impurity that pays for a prior act of greater impurity... without its participants having to suffer the full consequences incurred by its predecessor. The punishment is commuted in a process that strangely combines and finesses the deep contradiction between justice and mercy.
Frederick Turner, Beauty: The Value of Values
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Holy Families
Revelations cannot be sustained and transformed into successful new religions by lonely prophets... Indeed, new religious movements based on revelations typically are family affairs.
Rodney Stark, Exploring the Religious Life
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