via: patriotpost: In the last three months, we’ve been reduced to something like the ancient Athenian mob — with opportunistic politicians sometimes inciting, sometimes catering to an already angry public. The Greek comic playwright Aristophanes once described how screaming politicians — posing as men of the people — would sway Athenian citizens by offering them [...]
Archive for March, 2009
31 Mar
To GIVE and To SERVE: The $6 Billion National Service Boondoggle
Maybe it’s just me, but I find federal legislation titled “The GIVE Act” and “The SERVE Act” downright creepy. Even more troubling: the $6 billion price tag on these bipartisan bills to expand government-funded national service efforts. Volunteerism is a wonderful thing, which is why millions of Americans do it every day without a cent [...]
31 Mar
Is Notre Dame Still Catholic?
By inviting Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree at Notre Dame, the Rev. John Jenkins has polarized the Catholic community nationwide — and raised a question. What does it mean to be a Catholic university in post-Christian America? Are there truths about faith and morality that are closed to [...]
31 Mar
Real Christianity for Obama?
President Barack Obama has gotten a lot of mileage out of his appeals to people of faith. He portrays himself as one of them, a convert who found Jesus and a new purpose for living through community organizing in Chicago. His attempts to portray the audacity of hope, however, have been stymied by the manner [...]
31 Mar
“Liberty and Tyranny”
“The Modern Liberal believes in the supremacy of the state, thereby rejecting the principles of the Declaration and the order of the civil society, in whole or part. For the Modern Liberal, the individual’s imperfection and personal pursuits impede the objective of a utopian state. In this, Modern Liberalism promotes what French historian Alexis de [...]
31 Mar
Logical Insight
“The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When [...]
30 Mar
G20 summit: here’s hoping that Gordon Brown and Barack Obama fail
I hope you won’t think me unpatriotic if I say that I hope Gordon Brown fails at the G20 summit. I’ve remarked before that every single measure he has taken in response to the crunch has served to exacerbate the crisis. The trillion-dollar stimulus package he is now demanding would export those errors, plunging other [...]
30 Mar
Federal criminal complaint contends Obama ineligible
Ex-officer alleges prez used ‘contrivance, concealment, dissembling and deceit’ An ex-military officer has raised the stakes in the ongoing dispute over Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president, filing a criminal complaint against the “imposter” with the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Retired U.S. Navy officer Walter Francis Fitzpatrick III, who has [...]
30 Mar
‘New York Times’ Spiked Obama Donor Story
NYT spikes story linking Obama to ACORN A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign [...]
