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Daily Blogs for 6/2007
by Christopher Chantrill
"The Way to Stop Discrimination" | 06/29/07
It’s located right at the end of Chief Justice John Roberts decision in ...
"An Incredible Week" | 06/29/07
Let’s just pause for a moment, because for conservatives this week has been ...
Dems Who Voted Against Cloture | 06/28/07
The Senate immigration bill didn’t just fail by a whisker. The vote ...
After Blair: It's the Culture, Stupid | 06/28/07
We know now that the Third Way was the left’s backhanded admission that the Reagan and ...
Can Government Deliver on Education? | 06/27/07
Tony Blair, everyone’s darling, has resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ...
Flip-flopping: Do We Care? | 06/27/07
Apparently there’s a lot of heat about flip-floppers in the Republican presidential ...
The Fix Is In | 06/26/07
As the Senate voted 64-35 to take up the immigration bill, we the unwashed have to ...
Michael Novak on Hillarynomics | 06/26/07
We’ve already cast a jaundiced eye on Hillary Clinton’s “on your own” ...
Global Warming: 4 Legs Good; 2 Legs Bad | 06/25/07
That’s basically what the Society of Environmental Journalists believes. They ...
Single Payer Means Filthy Hospitals | 06/25/07
Before we all collapse before the tightly reasoned ideas of Michael Moore and his ...
The Incredible Shrinking New York Times | 06/22/07
The trouble with being a national institution is that when you start going down the ...
What Do These Professors Want? | 06/22/07
The Wall Street ...
Hamas Wins Gaza: What Now? | 06/21/07
With Israel surrounded by proxies of Iran, what should they give away now? And ...
The Adolescent Cult of "Getting it Right" | 06/20/07
Journalist and writer David Halberstam, tragically killed in an auto ...
Follow the Money on Immigration | 06/20/07
What are the real issues on the current immigration bill? Milton Friedman said ...
"Women with Needs" Tells It All | 06/19/07
What kind of voter would you imagine that Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is ...
Republican Elite vs. Republican Voters | 06/19/07
Now that the Republicans are out of power in Congress and President Bush is a lame ...
Cameron Speaks, Media Underwhelmed | 06/18/07
David Cameron gave a speech in Tooting, London on Monday, ...
Democrats and Taxes. Again | 06/18/07
The Democrats plan to solve the problem of the Alternative Minimum Tax (it hurts the ...
Reid's "Incompetent" Gaffe | 06/15/07
So Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace that he was ...
Hollywood and Abortion | 06/15/07
Politically, we all know that Hollywood is pro-abortion. But, with the release ...
CAFE: Bad Ideas Never Die | 06/14/07
Back in the 1970s our august Solons thought it was time to issue a ukase to the auto ...
Russia: Coming to Terms With Reality | 06/13/07
Russians want to believe that their country is great. But the trouble is that it ...
Blair Whines About Media He Helped Create | 06/12/07
It really is too bad of Tony Blair to complain about the savagery of the modern ...
A Modest Marriage Proposal | 06/12/07
In Britain the Law Commission is worried about the rights of ...
Democrat Budget & New Taxes and Spending | 06/12/07
Does nobody care what the Democrats are proposing in their budget resolution? ...
It Couldn't Happen Here. Could It? | 06/11/07
You’d think that when you have a centralized Nataional Curriculum, like the British ...
Sarkozy allies head for landslide | 06/11/07
Count me among the amazed as the French voted overwhelmingly for reform in their ...
Bush Defines G-8 on Climate Change? | 06/08/07
The advance word on the G-8 meeting in Germany was that hostess Angela Merkel and ...
What Were They Thinking?(1) | 06/08/07
It’s easy to say that after the fact. You wonder: What planet are they on? ...
Could the Immigration Issue Hurt the Democrats? | 06/07/07
The usual procedure after a big showdown like the immigration bill that was just ...
Democrats on Bush's "bumper-sticker" war | 06/07/07
Democratic presidential candidates are pretty well all agreed that the war on ...
Ted Kennedy Bridge Joke(1) | 06/06/07
You can’t do enough Ted Kennedy bridge jokes, any more than you can have enough of ...
How Do You Spell Freedom? | 06/06/07
Back in the old days childhood was different. Kids had more freedom, ...
What the MSM Won't Tell You | 06/05/07
Abortion is a political issue so reports about medical research around the subject of ...
Daring to Use the F Word | 06/05/07
It’s not that surprising that the Republican candidates haven’t trotted out the F word ...
Dem Problem: How to Get Past the Crazies | 06/04/07
At least President Bush has the guts to brush off his entire Republican base in ...
Hillary Clinton "On Her Own" | 06/01/07
We’ve already expectorated here on Sen. Clinton’s characterization of President Bush’s ...
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
Civil Society
“Civil Society”—a complex welter of intermediate institutions, including businesses, voluntary associations, educational institutions, clubs, unions, media, charities, and churches—builds, in turn, on the family, the primary instrument by which people are socialized into their culture and given the skills that allow them to live in broader society and through which the values and knowledge of that society are transmitted across the generations.
Francis Fukuyama, Trust
Hugo on Genius
“Tear down theory, poetic systems… No more rules, no more models… Genius conjures up
rather than learns… ” —Victor Hugo
César Graña, Bohemian versus Bourgeois
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
US Life in 1842
Families helped each other putting up homes and barns. Together, they built churches, schools, and common civic buildings. They collaborated to build roads and bridges. They took pride in being free persons, independent, and self-reliant; but the texture of their lives was cooperative and fraternal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
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