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Daily Blogs for 4/2007
by Christopher Chantrill
"Target Failing Families" or "More Responsibility" | 04/30/07
In Britain’s Daily Telegraph recently Prime Minister ...
Go Ahead, Make My Day | 04/30/07
Former Senator John “Two Americas” Edwards told Democrats in California that he would ...
Just How Smart Are Dems? | 04/27/07
Everyone seems to think that the Democrats are brilliantly managing the politics of ...
Regulating Speech on a Slippery Slope | 04/26/07
Liberals are all riled up about conservative talk radio. So they want to bring ...
Class Warfare Taxes May Sink Dems | 04/26/07
First thing the Democrats are doing in the new Congress is to exempt most taxpayers ...
Obama: The New Reagan? | 04/25/07
After the surprise showing by Sen. Barack Obama in the fundraising stakes, ...
It All Dovetails | 04/25/07
If you’ve ever watched The Larkin Chronicles (the Brit TV series that was the ...
Private Education in the Slums | 04/24/07
He was in Hyderabad, India looking at the city’s main tourist attraction, the ...
Liberal Issues Dems Don't Push | 04/24/07
In a rumination on the incompetence of Alberto ...
Reform vs. Stagnation in France | 04/23/07
What a clarifying event an election can be. In France, report the ...
When the Tax Cuts Expire | 04/23/07
Years ago neoconservative Irving Kristol advised Republicans to cut taxes, cut, and cut ...
Murder in America | 04/20/07
How bad is it? In the wake of the V-Tech mass murder the Europeans are ...
VT: The Tradeoffs in a Free Society | 04/20/07
The horrific Virginia Tech shootings have, as they should, inspired every political ...
Iraq war is 'lost' says Harry Reid | 04/19/07
The US “surge” is failing to bring peace to Iraq, according to Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), ...
Liberal Foundations Equals Liberal Costs | 04/19/07
It’s not just that charitable foundations often end up doing exactly the ...
The Adolescent Society | 04/18/07
Don’t expect a big liberal best-seller like John Kenneth Galbraith’s The ...
After VT: Gun Control Doesn't Bark | 04/18/07
After the horror of the shootings at Virginia Tech and the innocent lives cut ...
Let's Don't Kill All the Lawyers | 04/17/07
The Duke “rape” case was won by good defense lawyering, writes ...
Kill the Tax Monster | 04/17/07
It’s all very well ...
Just Who Has the Conflict of Interest? | 04/16/07
It was noble of Newsweek to allow a climate change denier, climate scientist ...
The Passing of Unsung Conservatives | 04/16/07
Liberals we know all about. They are celebrated from a thousand MSM ...
Hypocrisy Week | 04/13/07
If shock jock Don Imus went to his reward, what about Malik Shabazz? If ...
How Liberal Censorship Works | 04/13/07
You’d think, wouldn’t you, that a documentary focusing on the struggle of moderate ...
Let's Abolish Adolescence | 04/12/07
Did you know? They don’t have adolescence in most societies. At ...
Freeman Dyson: Optimistic Rebel | 04/12/07
Physicist Freeman Dyson makes a cameo appearance in Richard Dawkins’ The God ...
John Edwards' Two Americas | 04/11/07
Conservatives and Republicans like to go to bed at night secure in the ...
Liberal Censorship! Oh No! | 04/11/07
In the age of talk radio it has become much more difficult to bury egregious examples ...
A Liberal Mourns His Favorite Republican | 04/10/07
Just what was it about John McCain that liberals loved so much? Was it ...
The Social Work Bullies at Missouri State | 04/10/07
This would be funny if it weren’t so sad. The president of Missouri State University, ...
Rush Babies: They're Out There! | 04/09/07
The Drive-Bys aren’t reporting this, of course, but there’s a whole new generation out ...
After Pelosi, time for some thinking | 04/09/07
The trouble with Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Damascus was the thinking behind it, writes ...
Thinking Beyond the Welfare State | 04/08/07
As Tony Blair heads for the exits conservative Brits are thinking about what the ...
Lefties Want to Get Paid To Blog | 04/06/07
Radio talk-show host ...
No Affirming for Christians in Holy Week | 04/06/07
A permanent fixture of our calendar is Black History Month in which our media run ...
Let's Talk. About Taxes | 04/05/07
Let’s talk, said Hillary Clinton. Of course she wanted to just talk pretty in pink, ...
No Pelo-phany on Road to Damascus | 04/05/07
Both left and right agree that Nancy Pelosi’s bumbling journey to Damascus was an ...
When Christian Students Want a Special Day... | 04/04/07
It’s one thing to have a “Day of Silence” that celebrates the difficulties and ...
Let's Call It "Hewitting" | 04/04/07
First it was Fisking. That’s the process, according to Britain’s ...
When Politics is Only About Spin | 04/03/07
Ten, fifteen years ago in the heady days of the Third Way fashionable commentators ...
Partisans Applaud as Bush Bashes Democrats | 04/03/07
President Bush has finally started to lob a few shells at the Democrats who passed a ...
Are the Mullahs Desperate? | 04/02/07
With the mullahs in Iran staging another hostage incident, you have to wonder ...
What About Those Free Trade Deniers? | 04/02/07
How come that fashionable New York Times columnists are so quick to make moral ...
Bigger, Bolder, Brighter for 2007(1) | 04/01/07
Don’t tell me. April 1 is a foolish day to launch a site redesign. But ...
What Liberals Think About Conservatives
[W]hen I asked a liberal longtime editor I know with a mainstream [publishing] house for a candid, shorthand version of the assumptions she and her colleagues make about conservatives, she didn't hesitate. “Racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-choice fascists,” she offered, smiling but meaning it.
Harry Stein, I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican
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
Liberal Coercion
[T]he Liberal, and still more the subspecies Radical... more than any other in these latter days seems under the impression that so long as he has a good end in view he is warranted in exercising over men all the coercion he is able[.]
Herbert Spencer, The Man Versus the State
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
Moral Imperatives of Modern Culture
These emerge out of long-standing moral notions of freedom, benevolence, and the affirmation of ordinary life... I have been sketching a schematic map... [of] the moral sources [of these notions]... the original theistic grounding for these standards... a naturalism of disengaged reason, which in our day takes scientistic forms, and a third family of views which finds its sources in Romantic expressivism, or in one of the modernist successor visions.
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
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
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