I should begin by saying that I am not an alarmist, and that I don’t believe that the bar codes at Safeway are really antichrist codes. Further, I believe that beast of Revelation was the Roman Empire, long gone, lo, these many centuries, and that the woman who rode the beast was apostate Judaism. This …
That”s So Gay
So follow this link and watch the three television commercials that are there. (HT: Frank Golubski) Okay, all set? In the first place, I am almost tempted to give my whole-hearted endorsement to such an ad campaign just for the pleasure of hearing modern adults tell teenagers to “knock it off.” No qualifications, no poor …
His Rocket Ship Jammies
I haven’t said much about the one-act kabuki theater recently witnessed in the Honduras, if you are allowed to have those there. President Zelaya was pushing through an unconstitutional referendum, designed to alter an unalterable part of the Honduras constitution — the part of their constitution prohibiting “strong man rule.” Their Supreme Court said referendum …
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The Pie Topping Left
I have been quiet about Sarah Palin for a bit, not needing my comments count to soar into the stratosphere again, but I do want to give her a little bit of free advice. If you see her, pass this on, wouldja? You clearly won the round with David Letterman, but you were sailing a …
No, No . . . Not a Handout
Can’t stand it. Gotta say something. As John Stott wrote somewhere, fuzzy thinking is one of the sins of the age. I was watching the tube this afternoon, and a commercial came on, urging us all to get behind the Affordable Health Care Rationing System, or whatever it is they are calling it these days. …
The Economics of Sin
So, it is the Fourth of July. Eat your burgers and set off your squibs. Remember that we are not allowed to turn this into a lamentation commemoration until the president has us neck deep in five year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains, and they have to be at least as onerous …
Our Bedlamite Riot
A friend sent me this link to a demolition job of Radical Orthodoxy. This is the kind of scholarship that makes you want to say something like “push ’em back, push ’em back, waaaay back!” I am glad we still have scholars around who have the ability (and the olfactory tolerances) to sift through steaming …
Slow That Arrogant Greedhead Down
John Adams once said that our Constitution presupposes a moral and a religious people. It is wholly unfit, he said, for any other. One of the places where this undoubted truth is most obvious is when we enter the realm of economics — the place where many Christians refuse to bring the lordship of Christ …
A Very Pink Pig
One of the fundamental distinctions we need to learn to make is the one that exists between market entrepreneurs and political entrepreneurs. The terminology here is DiLorenzo’s — Rothbard made the same distinction, talking about free-market capitalists and state capitalists. The difference is not a slight one — think of a boar free in the …