Even a perfectly just man who wants to give advice to a tyrant has to present himself to his pupil as an utterly unscrupulous man. Leo Strauss, On Tyranny Thus, the voice of the Machiavellian – and the Sully-ite, too. …
Monthly Archives: May 2010
In my own name only…
Why this building, there? Leaving aside some melodrama – “insane,” “looming horror,” “surrender” – that question sums up the reaction to Cordoba House, a.k.a. “The Ground Zero Mosque,” a project of the the Cordoba Initiative (CI) that last week added…
Posted in International Relations, Religion, War Tagged with: Bin Laden, collective guilt, Cordoba House, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Islamophobia, Rick Barber, Rod Dreher, War
Endless Unstoppable Flows of Bad Ugly Stuff That No One Seems To Be Able To Do Anything About
This post isn’t really about the BP oil disastrophe – not that anyone yet seems quite sure how much of a disastrophe it is, even politically. This post is just here to ask whether the cloudy ominous unstoppable confusion of…
Look out below, the (other) sequel
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-five percent (45%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval…
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell in Manhattan
I don’t see a good reason to be against the building of a mosque/cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero. In fact, the arguments in favor sound quite reasonable to me. But, then again, I don’t hate and fear Islam. …
"Our rights come from God"
The Constitution, our dear Constitution, did not give us our rights. Our rights came from God and they are inalienable rights. The Constitution created the government to protect our God-given and unalienable rights. Thus Sarah Palin in her speech earlier…
Posted in Political Philosophy
Try…
… “our rights come from our existence and our basic similarity.” fuster @ Zombie Contentions – Does anyone really hold those truths to be self-evident?.
Posted in Politics
We hold these truths…
…to be consistent with a Civilized Society, that all men must be treated as if they were equal by our Government, and under our laws and jurisdiction, that Civilized People have determined that our citizens have inalienable rights, such as,…
Posted in Politics
Does anyone really hold those truths to be self-evident?
The Constitution, our dear Constitution, did not give us our rights. Our rights came from God and they are inalienable rights. The Constitution created the government to protect our God-given and unalienable rights. Thus Sarah Palin in her speech earlier…
Posted in Books, Political Philosophy, Politics, US History Tagged with: Barack Obama, Conservatism, Declaration of Independence, Founders, John Locke, libertarianism, natural rights, Sarah Palin, Thomas Jefferson
NEW OLD IMAGES
Don’t usually say much about my movie poster biz, or about new images as I add them to the site gallery. Don’t plan on making a habit of the former, but think I probably should of the latter. So from…