thoughts in and out of season
Social conservatives complain that their issues—abortion, “gay marriage” and whatnot—aren’t taken nearly as seriously by politicians on their side as by those on the other side. For Republicans, it seems, those issues are mostly vote getters that can be compromised or negotiated away, while for Democrats they’re religious absolutes that take precedence over everything. Leftists… More ...
Tonight I have been reading an on-line article from the German magazine Der Spiegel; the article was apparently re-published in The New York Times. The article is about the Stalinist regime in North Korea. It mentions that many “counter-revolutionaries” in the North have been forcibly placed in communist prison camps. Here’s the relevant exerpt:
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An obvious lesson of post-election complaints by leftists is that highly-educated and well-connected Blues, including famous commentators on public affairs, simply don’t understand Reds. They haven’t a clue as to how most of their countrymen look at things or why they look at them that way. Hence the fear, loathing and fantasy.
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Leftist blogs say the election turned on “gay marriage,” the prominent rightist blogs say it didn’t (Kos and Little Green Footballs provide an example). The election was close, and turned on any number of things. The reason for the dispute over this particular point, it seems, is that leftists believe the interpretation irrefutably discredits … More ...
Evidently, the election split [url=http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040922/flw011_1.html]black and non-black GAY Republicans[/url]…
So, where we’re at today, is that not only are there increasingly vocal homosexual lobbyists within the Republican Party, but they are split into two different groups, one black, and one evidently non-black (yet, notice, not decidedly white – that would be just too politically incorrect). … More ...
[url=http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/metropolitan/2883619]Here[/url].
Dallas County’s: first woman sheriff, first Hispanic sheriff, first gay sheriff, and first Democrat sheriff since the ’70s.
So many firsts; a win-win-win-win situation for “diversity”!
And for the [url=http://www.google.ca/search?as_q=reconquista+&num=100&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=mexican+mexicans+mexico&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images]reconquista[/url]…
Someone sent this to me yesterday: The Only Vote Worth Casting in November, a statement by Alasdair MacIntyre on the presidential election. The statement is no longer quite topical, but it’s still worth comment because MacIntyre is a distinguished thinker and his views are in line with those of many Catholics who try to … More ...
At bottom, the “culture war” is a war between subjectivism and realism: does the world we experience get its order and significance from human thoughts, feelings, intentions and actions, so by choosing our thoughts and actions properly we can bring about a new Creation, or is it what it is largely without regard to … More ...
“Faith schools”—those with a definite religious orientation—have been something of an issue in England the past several years. The issue comes out of the secular and multicultural commitments of the British state. The problem is that secular multicultural education is always bad, at least on any large scale, because schools of that kind can’t … More ...
This stuff deserves an entry of its own. Here’s the latest story in the saga of New Age liturgies among the Episcopalians. I’ll try to move the comments here.