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Daily Blogs for 4/2008
by Christopher Chantrill
MoveOn dot Next? | 04/30/08
Now that Sen. Barack has “courageously” thrown his pastor under the bus, ...
Defining Obama for America | 04/29/08
The first rule of politics, they say, is to define yourself and your opponent before ...
Those Aborted Black Babies | 04/28/08
One of the whackier aspects of Reverend Wright’s sophisticated worldview is the ...
You Can't Say That | 04/25/08
Our lefty friends call it “controlling the narrative.” In plain English it ...
The Company You Keep | 04/24/08
Remember the old saying? You can tell a man by the company he keeps.
On the ...
What Price Education? | 04/23/08
When you subsidize sometehing then you get more of it.
If you subsidize ...
Liberals Against the Tide | 04/22/08
Last week the US Supreme Court decided a Kentucky ...
Obama's Three Unforced Errors | 04/21/08
Government is always the rule of the few over the many. Always.
You may think ...
The Way to Rise in America | 04/18/08
Today America’s thoughtful Mom, ...
Dems Get Tough Questions | 04/17/08
Democratic partisans are outraged today after ABC’s Charlie Gibson and George ...
McCain: Dem Tax Increase is "Change" | 04/16/08
We knuckle-dragging bitter-end conservative Republicans have been worried about John ...
Theocracy Here We Come! | 04/15/08
Liberals have been worrying for six years about the looming theocracy. Well, ...
Liberals' and Obama's God Problem | 04/14/08
A liberal friend confided the other day that Democrats were having a problem ...
Politics is Politics, But... | 04/11/08
Are you becoming as offended as I am by the Democrats’ unilateralist approach to ...
Is Google Smart or What? | 04/10/08
Earlier this week a new website went up. It is ...
Are We Safe, Mr. President? | 04/09/08
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) tells it like it is. Yesterday, he told his ...
The Real Meaning of Honor | 04/07/08
Honor is a much abused word.
Mostly it is abused by people who say: How dare ...
More People Entering Work Force | 04/04/08
The unemployment rate was out today, up to 5.1 percent. As usual the headline ...
Who's The Fighter? | 04/03/08
Academics and government employees like Barack Obama for president, writes ...
Dem Divide: It Really Isn't Funny | 04/02/08
It’s easy for Republicans to snigger at the problems the Democrats are having in ...
Education vs. Family | 04/01/08
In the sleeper movie hit ...
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
Faith and Politics
As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not negotiable...
[1.] protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death; [2.] recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family... [3.] the protection of the right of parents to educate their children.
Pope Benedict XVI, Speech to European Peoples Party, 2006
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”
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
Class War
In England there were always two sharply opposed middle classes, the academic middle class and the commercial middle class. In the nineteenth century, the academic middle class won the battle for power and status... Then came the triumph of Margaret Thatcher... The academics lost their power and prestige and... have been gloomy ever since.
Freeman Dyson, “The Scientist as Rebel”
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
Conservatism
Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority — the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says ‘we should...’.
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity
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
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
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”
China and Christianity
At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing
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
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