Nov
30
Of Dionne, Sullivan, and hypocrisy, or, Why I am a Catholic
November 30, 2005 | Comments Off
Am I evil?Yes I am.Am I evil?I am man, yes I am. E.J. Dionne – excuse me for a minute <hack, hack>, man I can’t seem to shake this cough. Must be the cigars. To start again, E. J. Dionne <hack, hack, hack>. Damn, really got to stick with Monte Cristos. Anyway, Dionne is up to his usual [...]
Nov
29
The world’s smallest fiddle
November 29, 2005 | Comments Off
The Telegraph writes of an impending milestone: the one thousandth execution since the death penalty was re-instated. Barring a miraculous last minute pardon, Robin Lovitt, 41, will be executed tomorrow for the crime of fatally stabbing a man with scissors in a Virginia pool hall robbery in 1998. Sad. Of course, between the posting of [...]
Nov
24
Thanks
November 24, 2005 | Comments Off
One thing I am thankful for this Thanksgiving day is the birth of William F. Buckley. George Will is too, and he penned an excellent column today commemorating the man who changed this country. He concludes it: Buckley, so young at 80, was severely precocious at 7 when he wrote a starchy letter to the [...]
Nov
22
MNR
November 22, 2005 | Comments Off
This is the sort of post they designed the read more tag for. Jay Nordlinger would be proud. -Ted Stevens recently threatened to quit the Senate – which he has been a member of for 37 years – if the funding to the bridge to nowhere were stripped away. Well, technically said funding has been done away [...]
Nov
20
Illegals to Vote?
November 20, 2005 | Comments Off
Last week, the New York City Council, in an unprecedented act of anti-sovereign shortsightedness, heard testimony on a proposed bill that would allow most or all of New York City’s immigrant population to vote in municipal elections. The bill was short on detail, of course, and did not differentiate between legal and illegal immigrants. And [...]
Nov
18
Military Service of Significant Persons (for what it’s worth)
November 18, 2005 | Comments Off
This list of significant political people’s military service was sent to me unsolicited. I’m not sure that it says anything significant about the state of creditably out there with respect to the either the war and/or general military issues. In my opinion, you don’t have to have served in the military to be knowledgeable about [...]
Nov
18
Homeland Security
November 18, 2005 | Comments Off
Here’s to an armed citizenry.
Nov
18
Is Anyone Credible Anymore?
November 18, 2005 | Comments Off
While there are several of good, interesting columns in the paper this morning (see both Charles Krauthammer on intelligent design, and Michael Kinsley on abortion and the Supreme Court), the story I want to talk about is John Murtha’s (D-Pa) speech on the House floor on Iraq and the responses to it by people who [...]
Nov
17
Mass: Spirituality, not Entertainment
November 17, 2005 | Comments Off
By way of Southern Appeal I found this very encouraging article that takes a look at Cardinal Arinze’s assessment of the recent synod. The Mass is a moment of reflection and encounter with God, rather than a form of entertainment, says Cardinal Francis Arinze. In an interview with Inside the Vatican magazine, the prefect of [...]
Nov
17
Will’s column
November 17, 2005 | Comments Off
Check out Will‘s rather prescient column in today’s Post. Interested to gauge the TPS reaction to his sentiments…. ps. thx paul
Nov
16
Good to see that idiocy still reigns
November 16, 2005 | Comments Off
A sense of the House resolution encourages the 9th Circuit to rehear the sex survey case en banc. Query: What is the most lame-brained aspect of this? The merits? While I am a big fan of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, let’s not do anything to endanger or extend that case. The lack of standing? [...]
Nov
16
American Conservatism today, being the seventh part of American Conservatism
November 16, 2005 | Comments Off
Part one. Part two. Part three. Part four. Part five. Part six. Keith Burgess-Jackson singles out this Norman Podhoretz essay on neoconservatism, and he quips, “Note that, according to Kristol, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is one of neoconservatism’s “heroes.” That alone takes me out of the neoconservative camp, for Roosevelt was a constitutional disaster. Catharine MacKinnon calls her version of feminism [...]
Nov
15
This one’s for mouldfan
November 15, 2005 | Comments Off
Looks like John Rawls runs into some trouble in the afterlife. Hat tip: QD at Southern Appeal.
Nov
15
Burke and stare decisis
November 15, 2005 | Comments Off
Okay, I can finally get to that Publius post that mouldfan discussed in this post below. Click for the full monty. Right off the bat, I will express my full approval of this statement: For instance, as I’ve argued before, the neocons are the intellectual heirs not of Edmund Burke, but of the French radicals [...]
Nov
15
Administrative and other matters
November 15, 2005 | Comments Off
First of all, I will certainly be getting to the aforementioned post on Burke and stare decisis. So far, a little thing called work has interfered with me wrting substantively on the matter. (Speaking of work, I received my first Maryland-taxed paycheck, and I am one of those rare birds who has moved to Maryland [...]
Nov
13
Charming Sunday Story
November 13, 2005 | Comments Off
Group that murders the unborn compares itself to Jesus. Hoping to show that it is not anti-Christian, Planned Parenthood’s Lexington affiliate is bringing the organization’s national chaplain to speak with area clergy this week. But so far, only a handful of religious leaders have agreed to meet with him. David Bowman, board chairman of Planned [...]
Nov
11
And the winner is . . .
November 11, 2005 | Comments Off
Thanks for all of the kind feedback. Many of you expressed support for the original format, and after much careful consideration, the final format will be . . . This one. Hey, you all should know by now that we’re not big fans of populism in these parts. That, and we’re kind of lazy (or [...]
Nov
10
Feedback Time
November 10, 2005 | Comments Off
All right, we are now approaching the one-year anniversary of this blog, and it is time to pick a design. We would like to hear from everybody about which template they think is best. There are three options. – Option one is the classic Minima template that we used for most of the first year, [...]
Nov
9
Three figures, being the sixth part of American Conservatism
November 9, 2005 | Comments Off
Part one here. Two. Three. Four. Five. Now where were we? Ah yes. I alluded to a famous actor who would go on to lead a conservative revolution, but two men paved the way for Reagan. In the 1950’s conservatism was, to put it mildly, in disarray. Though Eisenhower had been elected president, anyone thinking that he would roll back the New [...]
Nov
8
Kilgore loses
November 8, 2005 | Comments Off
I usually don’t say this when a Republican loses, but GOOD. He ran a terrible campaign, and he deserved to go down to defeat. Of course some will be inclined to read national implications into this race, but these people would be wrong. Kilgore turned off voters with his over-the-top negative advertising, and he failed [...]