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Daily Blogs for 6/2008
by Christopher Chantrill
Conservatives Obtuse on '60s Civil Rights | 06/30/08
Why was it that Sen. Barry Goldwater voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act? A ...
Heller and "Select Militias" | 06/27/08
The big takeaway for me on the Second Amendment case of ...
Heller Doesn't End It | 06/26/08
Today the United States Supreme Court in ...
Are You Sure, Dems? | 06/25/08
If you scratch a Democrat this year, you will probably find someone who feels like ...
What's So Depressing? | 06/24/08
Women are twice as likely to be depressed as men, writes ...
Wright Was Almost Right | 06/23/08
Everyone understands that messages often get garbled in transmission. Teachers ...
The Age of Anti-Heroes and Anti-Modesty | 06/20/08
At the beginning of his remarkable book Honor: A ...
The GOP Energy Raid | 06/19/08
For years the liberals have been telling us that we needed to end our addiction to ...
Free the Subprime Six! | 06/18/08
So what if Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) got sweetheart mortgages ...
The Gay Marriage Question | 06/17/08
Now that the California Supreme Court has spoken about gay marriage, it’s time ...
Who Gives and Who Takes? | 06/16/08
Who knew? Back in 2006 Arthur C. Brooks published ...
Liberal Lawyers Notch Another One | 06/13/08
To conservatives the decision of the US Supreme Court to give the detainees at ...
McCain Clueless on Energy | 06/12/08
Is John McCain really clueless on energy? Or is he just pretending?
He talked ...
The D'Oh-bama Factor | 06/11/08
You have to wonder, as Barack Obama stumbles from one gaffe to another. Is he really ...
Liberals are Different From You and Me... | 06/10/08
It’s like the old saying: “The rich are different from you and me. They ...
Left Doesn't Like Free Speech | 06/09/08
Everyone is properly outraged at the quasi-legal proceedings of the British Columbia ...
Labor Market Turmoil | 06/06/08
The equity markets are off sharply today and you can see why.
No, it’s not ...
Obama's Vision for America | 06/05/08
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) gave a speech on Tuesday obviously intended to be a ...
Obama We Hardly Know Ye | 06/04/08
As Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) becomes the presumptive presidential nominee of the ...
MSM: What Took You So Long? | 06/03/08
Conservatives are having a grand old time this election season watching the Clintons ...
"The Metrics Pointed to Failure" | 06/02/08
One of the key things to understand about human conflict (and that means human life in ...
Faith & Purpose
“When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of ages—they seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings...”
Finke, Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990
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
Education
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State
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
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
Knowledge
Inquiry does not start unless there is a problem... It is the problem and its
characteristics revealed by analysis which guides one first to the relevant facts and then,
once the relevant facts are known, to the relevant hypotheses.
F.S.C. Northrop, The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities
Chappies
“But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie
that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.”
—Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
Democratic Capitalism
I mean three systems in one: a predominantly market economy; a polity respectful of the rights of the individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and a system of cultural institutions moved by ideals of liberty and justice for all.
In short, 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
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
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
Conversion
“When we received Christ,” Phil added, “all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.”
James M. Ault, Jr., Spirit and Flesh
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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