Don’t just stand there, do something!
A couple of online petitions in support of marriage from Alliance for Marriage and Institute for Religion and Democracy.
Year: 2004
Good news for tolerance
Hate-filled bigots have been stopped dead in their tracks: an organization had been sending families of fallen soldiers and policemen medallions with a picture of the Liberty Bell and the quotations “Liberty Rings For All Nations” and “United We Stand, Divided We Fall.” On the reverse they had been putting the man’s name and the … More ...
Can’t Blame Buckley Anymore
The New York Times reports in a news story that William F. Buckley Jr. is divesting himself of control and ownership of “National Review,” the journal he founded 49 years ago. WFB was never a culture warrior, and these days, he’s not much of a warrior of any kind. Of course, at the age of … More ...
Were the Wars of Religion really that?
The claim that the history of Europe from 1517 to 1648 shows that mixing politics and religion leads to endless violence, so that peace requires the secular state, always seemed odd to me. After all, states kill by nature, and they can be defended only if someone is willing to put his life on the … More ...
Of dogs, mangers, martyrs and crypts
British law, like U.S. law. requires the physical reconstruction of the universe so handicaps are no longer handicaps. Failure to do the necessary reconstruction is strictly forbidden as a violation of fundamental human decency. That’s what laws against “discrimination” on the basis of disability are all about.
Such laws are yet another glorious social … More ...
Away for a few days
I don’t expect to have reliable web access for the next few days (probably until Tuesday) and so may not post at all. Remember, though, that any registered user can start a new forum topic!
Errata variorum
Keeping abreast of the times:
- It seems the ban on Vlaams Blok didn’t become final quite fast enough. The right-wing party came in second in the recent EU vote, beating the party of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt (who is most likely the next EU president). In the aftermath: the other parties are fussing about whether
Is liberalism the natural conclusion of Christianity?
I’ve argued that contemporary liberalism is the flowering and not the corruption of classical liberalism. Once people accept the primacy of freedom, the basic principle of classical liberalism, what we have now naturally follows.
How far can that line of thought be taken? Liberalism, with its emphasis on the freedom and dignity of the individual, … More ...
New poll!
Do vote, and remember that old polls are still available (see site links above).
Flogging a dead multiculture
A review of Diane Ravitch’s The Language Police in The New Pantagruel brings out the nature of “celebrating diversity” in school textbooks: since almost anything one might assert, suggest or mention would be more favorable to one group or culture than another, the only things that can be asserted, suggested or mentioned are things like … More ...