I never thought of it this way… Those who are always accusing people in the private sector of “greed” almost never accuse government of greed, no matter what it does. Indeed, the question of whether the government is greedy almost never comes up, so most of us probably never think about it. The first time…
DetailsThis week’s ToTheSource talks about moral relativism, which relates to last week’s quote of the week from Chesterton (“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.“): Lewis understood, with prophetic lucidity, that our ills today are largely the result of our ongoing attempt to escape from our own nature. Such is the theme of…
DetailsOn the news yesterday, a commentator gushed about BP having to pay for all of the problems caused in the gulf, per Obama demanding it be so. How does that strike you? Are you happy BP is going to have to pay for the problems they created, or are you smarter than that? Walter E.…
DetailsMany months ago, my good friend RJ told me to read The Quiet Coup, an article about the hazardous means by which we have been running our big financial institutions in this country. I finally got around to it today. Though of a pretty leftist slant that I can’t fully endorse, I found this paragraph…
DetailsEsquire recently printed an open letter to non-Christians by a guy named Shane Claibourne that delivers an excellent critique of Christianity in practice versus in principle: To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has…
Details(A U.S. map from 1892) Looming in our future, and just as dangerous as the thinning of our values of freedom and self-sufficiency, is the NeoConservative “virtue” of patriotism at all costs. If you question this country’s mission abroad, in any sense, you are labelled as unpatriotic, a title that has become as damning as…
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