- From Daniel Nichols: Andrew Bacevich on a conservatism that conserves.
- From LRC: Catholic Social Teaching™ and Obamacare. On well-meaning churchmen past and present who want socialism with a little God thrown on top.
- Sailer on Republican pandering to the left: Back on 9/11, 343 men of the Fire Department of New York gave their lives. Six years later, the Bush Administration (Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General) rewarded the survivors by suing the FDNY on the grounds that the hiring test was an example of disparate impact discrimination because too many white guys aced it. How’s that working out for Republicans, anyway? How many black and Hispanic voters were converted to Republicans by this ploy?
- The chattering classes: they think ‘socially conservative’ = ‘tacky’ and why they prefer Mexican workers to the white working class.
- From RR: US appeals court: Constitution requires discrimination based on race and sex. Oh, really?
- Online initiative to offer college courses for credit.
- Another outdated and thus dying industry like newspapers and magazines: US Postal Service loses $15.9 billion.
- Reason not to try concentrated-caffeine energy drinks.
- Killing Iranian children. We’re not the good guys, again, and the nuttiest faction of a foreign country, which exists because of Western good intentions born of WWII guilt, runs our policy, bullying (committing the same atrocities against) a country that, however unpleasant (you don’t want to be a dhimmi), is no threat to us. The ayatollahs don’t have a nuke aimed at my house so I don’t care. Leave them in peace and they leave us in peace.
- Wendy McElroy: the disparate impact is nigh.
- With the election behind us, President Obama and the lame-duck Congress return to Washington to face a fiscal showdown, occasioned by automatic tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to kick in after the first of the year. Most economists, including the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, agree that if nothing is done, this arbitrary, Washington-created “fiscal cliff,” as Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke dubbed it, will likely drive the economy back into recession. It is probably already contributing to slower growth.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
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I suppose most of my ire is really about politically liberal Churchman institutionalizing their political liberalism in Church structures, policies, and a lame attempt at theologizing liberal political idealogy. That said, I recognize there is a national tension between social justice teachings and the basic theological purpose of Holy Mother the Church, which is to help people save their souls! That said, the social justice policies of the modern Catholic Church seem to me to involve so many time & place conditioned issues and Church policies, that the Church risks becoming just another political/social institution and its apostolic leaders a combination of senior managers & politicians and less so the priests that they are. I don't like this at all.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds nice to say that we are bringing Christ and the Gospel to the modern masses, but what we should be saying instead is a big NO! to governments--especially our own--that institutionalize mandatory birth control coverage, abortion on demand, and gay marriage. And then let us live with the consequences. These consequences will be visited upon us anyway even if we just shut up and stay quiet . . . or so I opine.
Jim C.
Re: the Fiscal Cliff
ReplyDeleteEven if a recession happens, will the Fiscal Cliff actually reduce the debt structure of this country? How can that hurt the U.S. in the long run. Less debt is good compared to more debt.
Economics may use the equations of Physics, some of which I actually understand given my academic background, but applies these equations to crowd behavior. It therefore becomes in my perception the real Vodoo Economics, as opposed to the political version thereof that George H. W. Bush aimed at Ronald Reagan when both were first competing for the Republican Presidential nomination.
Obamacare == Vodoo Economics too! (IMHO)
Jim C.