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Daily Blogs for 8/2007
by Christopher Chantrill
Karl Rove and Bush's Legacy | 08/31/07
On his last day at the White House, long-time Bush aide ...
Bush to Help Subprime Borrowers | 08/31/07
Obviously some sort of assistance to financially strapped homeowners was coming down ...
How to Reclaim the Streets | 08/30/07
In the old days, we all know, adults used to correct children who misbehaved. ...
The Three Principles of Government | 08/30/07
Now that I’m getting into the guts of ...
Blacks Move to SF Suburbs: Liberals Hardest Hit | 08/29/07
The liberal issue de la semaine as we French linguists have it is blacks moving ...
Can Peaceful Christianity Beat Militant Islam? | 08/29/07
Robert Spencer’s book ...
Is It Over Yet? | 08/28/07
The Dow was down another 280 points today, and ...
Appoint a Special Prosecutor? | 08/28/07
In the wake of the resignation of Albert Gonzales as Attorney ...
Fixing the System For Highways | 08/27/07
Everyone is naturally outraged by the collapse of an interstate highway bridge over ...
The End of Secularism | 08/24/07
I had tagged the New York Times Magazine article by Mark Lilla on ...
Education: What to Do?(1) | 08/23/07
The other day, rancher, military expert, and college teacher ...
The Politics of Demonization(1) | 08/22/07
Why do Democrats hate Karl Rove so much? And why do Republicans hate Senator ...
Women Like Big Government(1) | 08/21/07
Yes, they really do. John Lott has run the numbers in his new book ...
A Conservatism of Fraternity | 08/21/07
Let’s do some serious thinking. That’s the watchword now we’ve reached the end ...
Your School Kid is "Invisible" | 08/20/07
Senator Hillary Clinton has recently been reported asserting that ordinary people are ...
Bernanke's "Rookie Mistake?" | 08/20/07
For the last two weeks the Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank have ...
Climate Change Deniers(2) | 08/17/07
It’s turning out to be a rough year for the Climate Change Deniers, you ...
Dem Dodges on School Choice | 08/16/07
Presidential candidate and United States Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) sent his children to ...
Rove on Rush | 08/15/07
Karl Rove was on the Rush Limbaugh Program today for about 15 minutes, and spoke about ...
Time to Curb "Sanctuary Nation?" | 08/15/07
The United States has laws to identify and pick up illegal aliens and deport ...
Beyond Rove, The Hard Thinking | 08/14/07
Beyond the Rove Myth, there is reality, ...
Now They Tell Us | 08/14/07
The much-typed “surge” is working. Even the global MSM is noticing, as ...
Karl Rove Resigns | 08/13/07
Love him or hate him, Karl Rove is the outstanding Republican political operator of ...
End of Civil Liberties? | 08/10/07
Is the new warrantless wiretapping law passed by Congress last weekend the end of ...
US Tipping Balance of Power in Mideast | 08/09/07
It’s been notable to me that the o-called “surge” in Iraq has involved US troops ...
Army Says Beauchamp Articles False | 08/08/07
It looks like it could be time to start rolling out the long German words with respect ...
A New Look at the Industrial Revolution | 08/07/07
Why did the industrial revolution begin in Britain? And why did it begin in the ...
Education Fatties Won't Diet | 08/06/07
The government education monopoly eats about $500 billion a year for K-12 ...
Is DailyKos Really Rush for Liberals? | 08/03/07
We right-wingnuts and hatemongers look at the output of the DailyKos with ...
Bush Attacks Excess Dem Spending | 08/03/07
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it’s “only” $22 billion. But President Bush had ...
What Voters Know That Isn't So | 08/01/07
You can call it economic illiteracy, as ...
Murdoch Gets the Prize | 08/01/07
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch finally overcame the finicky objections of the legacy Dow ...
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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