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Daily Blogs for 8/2008
by Christopher Chantrill
Sarah Palin, the Real Thing from Alaska | 08/29/08
At first blush Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) seems like an unlikely choice as running ...
Obama Wows His Supporters, At Least | 08/29/08
Obama supporters seem as pleased as punch this morning after his acceptance speech at ...
Dems Just Don't Like Free Speech | 08/28/08
First it was the outrage over the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. How dare they attack ...
Bill is Still the Champ | 08/28/08
What else can you say after Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention? President ...
But She Just Isn't Likeable | 08/27/08
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) did a workmanlike job in her speech last night on the ...
Ted's a Liberal and Michelle's a Mom | 08/26/08
That’s what we learned at the Democratic National Convention on Monday ...
Dems Cheer Criticism of Teacher Unions! | 08/25/08
Have our Democratic friends reached an inflection point on ...
McCain's Luck or Smarts? | 08/22/08
How did he do it? How did Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) come from a campaign written off as ...
Let's Not Repeat The New Deal Follies | 08/21/08
A couple of years ago Amity Shlaes wrote The ...
BritCons Challenge Labour on "Fairness" | 08/20/08
Every conservative knows about “fairness.” That’s the line that our ...
Rick Warren's "Civil" Project | 08/19/08
Most people agree that it was Roe v. Wade that created the Christian Right. ...
Left Tries a Bit of Swiftboating | 08/19/08
What is “Swiftboating?” According to ...
Obama's "Pay Grade" | 08/18/08
Our liberal friends do a pretty good job obfuscating the line between law and morality ...
A Look at the Obama Economy | 08/15/08
You think? After three years of a lackluster Obama administration a resurgent Senator ...
Protect the Government University from Bigots! | 08/14/08
You gotta love the fun that columnist ...
Dems and Their Special Interests | 08/13/08
The way our Democratic friends tell it, Big Oil and Big Drug are evil special ...
How's Your Soft Power Today? | 08/12/08
Back in the good old days the lilberal Joseph Nye regaled us with the importance of ...
Life without Newspapers Will Be Just Fine | 08/11/08
Life is rough for the folks in the metropolitan newspaper business, and some people ...
Lopez Lomong: US Soft Power | 08/08/08
Our liberal friends, led by Joseph Nye and his book ...
Catch 22 on Drilling | 08/07/08
Our Democratic friends, led by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), insist that we can’t ...
McCain and the Internet | 08/06/08
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) don’t know nothin’ about the internet. Doesn’t ...
Dueling Energy Futures | 08/05/08
Republicans believe that we should let the market figure out the future of energy. ...
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 | 08/04/08
What can we say about ...
Good Old Rush | 08/01/08
Rush Limbaugh was just getting into a riff about the stupidity of Sen. Barack ...
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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