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Daily Blogs for 2/2008
by Christopher Chantrill
Race Bureaucrat Worries About Obama | 02/29/08
The chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Britain has created a ...
Media Turns on Clintons | 02/28/08
The fundamental thing to understand about the media is the blood-in-the-water ...
Bill Buckley Dead at 82 | 02/27/08
Even the New York Times agrees that William F. Buckley, Jr., dead at 82, was ...
When Liberals Write About Religion | 02/26/08
Ever since the Enlightenment liberals have liked to talk about religion as something ...
NYT Trashes Working Women | 02/25/08
In politics, or at least the politics of personal destruction, anything ...
Obama: Read the Commenters | 02/22/08
Never mind about the vapid messianic tone of the Obama campaign. Never mind ...
"Another Reagan" Wouldn't Run | 02/21/08
Today’s Republicans all live in hope of “another Reagan.” Not a ...
Really Proud of America | 02/19/08
Liberals have always had a real problem feeling proud of America. In fact you ...
Clintons Snark on Obama | 02/19/08
Our good friends at Clinton Central are shocked, shocked that Senator Barack Obama has ...
Castro Steps Down At Last | 02/19/08
Lefties say the darnedest things. That’s because they regard the ...
Obama's Immigration Problem | 02/18/08
It’s no secret that the Democratic Party is a lot more “liberal” on ...
Obama-the-Empty-Suit Day | 02/15/08
Funny how our noble punditoriate all manage to write the same story on the same ...
Valentines for McCain | 02/14/08
It’s Valentine’s Day, so every Republican pundit is sending flowers to John ...
Obama in the Driver's Seat? | 02/13/08
After Senator Barack Obama convincingly won the Potomac Primary yesterday, is it time ...
The Problem Isn't Just McCain | 02/12/08
In the aftermath of Senator John McCain’s presumptive victory last week in the ...
The Trouble with an Establishment of Religion | 02/11/08
Everyone has something to say about the Archbishop of Canterbury and his suggestion ...
Democrats: Safeway vs. Whole Foods | 02/08/08
Those of us cursed with a conservative temperament view the current Democratic race ...
Romney Out | 02/07/08
They called him a flip-flopper and a robocandidate, but mostly Presidential Candidate ...
After Super Tuesday: Wait Until 2009!(2) | 02/06/08
Our Democratic friends are racing towards the nomination in a dead heat. They are all ...
McCain: Why Does He Do It? | 02/05/08
Why is it that Senator John McCain’s is most impressive when sliming other ...
Big Spending Increase in US Budget | 02/04/08
It’s "Dead on Arrival." That’s what the Democrats like to say when a ...
Ted Kennedy Calls The Clintons Out | 02/01/08
It is certainly a moment, when Ted Kennedy comes out for Barack Obama and disses the ...
Society and State
For [the left] there is only the state and the individual, nothing in between. No family to rely on, no friend to depend on, no community to call on. No neighbourhood to grow in, no faith to share in, no charities to work in. No-one but the Minister, nowhere but Whitehall, no such thing as society - just them, and their laws, and their rules, and their arrogance.
David Cameron, Conference Speech 2008
Socialism equals Animism
Imagining that all order is the result of design, socialists
conclude that order must be improvable by better design of some superior mind.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
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
Religion, Property, and Family
But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family.
Thus the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family, (and also anti-religion), is not promising.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit
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
Postmodernism
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ’merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy
Physics, Religion, and Psychology
Paul Dirac: “When I was talking with Lemaître about [the expanding universe] and feeling stimulated
by the grandeur of the picture that he has given us, I told him that
I thought cosmology was the branch of science that lies closest to religion.
However [Georges] Lemaître [Catholic priest, physicist, and
inventor of the Big Bang Theory] did not agree with me. After thinking it over he
suggested psychology as lying closest to religion.”
John Farrell, “The Creation Myth”
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
Never Trust Experts
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Lord Salisbury, “Letter to Lord Lytton”
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
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
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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