Karl, “History” via Pajamas Media/Raymond Ibrahim and “history” as the rest of the world knows it are not always the same thing. The famous description of Cordoba as “the brilliant ornament of the world” was applied by a visitor from…
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“Cordoba”: A comment for Karl at HotAir
Posted in Books, History, Religion Tagged with: Cordoba Initiative, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, Rauf
East is West and West is East and Never the Met Are Twain (light posting)
[amazon-product]0393333566[/amazon-product]…when, a few months ago now, something about the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy made me think of William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, I thought I was just reaching for a convenient allusion… especially regarding Islam I was…
How to make money: James M Buchanan on completing the American Revolution
Economist James M. Buchanan – born: 1919, Nobel Prize: 1986 – should not be called upon or expected to enter the political trenches, to simplify or pretty things up for the masses or for striving politicians, nor to construct elaborately…
Posted in Books, Economics, US History Tagged with: Constitutionalism, Financial Crisis, Gold Standard, Hobbes, James M Buchanan, Monetarism, Monetary Policy, The Founders, The Framers
From Somalia without love
[amazon-product]1439157316[/amazon-product]In the middle of a mostly sympathetic review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Nomad, Nicholas Kristof wondered parenthetically if the author’s family is dysfunctional “simply because its members never learned to bite their tongues and just say to one another: ‘I…
Posted in Books, International Relations, Religion Tagged with: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam, Islamophobia
A sounding…
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. …
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
Forgetting Wilson (Reply to Jonah Goldberg)
Much as I might enjoy debating the comparative progressivism of President Warren “Racial Amalgamation There Cannot Be” Harding; much as, armed by biography, I’m ready to stand up for Professor President Thomas Woodrow Wilson against the dextrosphere’s leading anti-intellectual intellectuals,…
Posted in Books, US History Tagged with: Conservatism, Edmund Burke, Founders, Gordon Wood, Jonah Goldberg, Obama, Pestritto, Progressive Era, progressivism, Republican Party, RINO, Scott Galupo, Tea Party, Warren G Harding, Woodrow Wilson, Yarbrough
raving cluelessly about eugenics…
…makes conservatives look backwards and unscientific, two brandings that conservatism should avoid because that turns off the youth, college-educated, and scientists and academe, all demographics the right is losing badly in. strangelet @ One Cancer Under God: On Defending Woodrow…
Here’s a quote from the German documentary The Architecture of Doom
“Defining Nazism in traditional political terms is difficult, mainly because its dynamic was fueled by something quite different from what we usually call politics. This driving force was, to a great degree, esthetic; its ambition was to beautify the world…
One Cancer Under God: On Defending Woodrow Wilson
If you’re going to excise the Wilsonian progressive cancer down to the last cell, as per Glenn Beck, then, when you’re done with your surgery, you may have less of the patient left over on the operating table than you’ve discarded as hazardous bio-waste.
Posted in Books, Featured, US History Tagged with: Espionage Act, Eugenics, Glenn Beck, John Milton Cooper Jr, Jonah Goldberg, New Freedom, Palmer Raids, progressivism, Racism, Red Scare, Sedition Act, Segregation, Woodrow Wilson, World War One