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FENDER SKIRTS AND SUPPER I know some of you will not understand this, but I bet you know someone who might. I came across this phrase yesterday. ‘ FENDER SKIRTS ‘A term I haven’t heard in a long time, and thinking about ‘fender skirts’ started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear […]
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Beware of Liberals Touting Collectivism and Seeking Higher Taxes
January 24, 2013
The following is an analysis by John Gray, professor emeritus at the London School of Economics: “One of the features that distinguished Bolshevism from Tsarism was the insistence of Lenin and his followers on the need for a complete overhaul of society. Old-fashioned despots may modernize in piecemeal fashion if doing so seems necessary to […]
Posted in: Culture, Economics, Ethics, Government, History, Liberal Politics, Philosophy, Politics, Progressive Economics, Senior Citizens, Taxes
An Economic Disaster Of Our Own Making
January 20, 2013
“The quality of U.S. fiscal institutions has deteriorated. Recent actions by Congress and Presidents indicate no willingness to recognize limits to debt and to engage in fundamental fiscal reform. They have reacted to each deadline, such as the recent fiscal cliff, by taking minimal action and delaying fundamental reform that would stabilize the debt ratio. […]
Posted in: Congress, Conservative Politics, Economy, Federal Deficit, Gold Standard, Senior Citizens, Taxes
An Example Of Reconciliation Of Plato With Christianity
January 19, 2013
Boethius in the sixth century A.D. and Thomas Aquinas 500 years later, devoted their lives to the reconciliation of Platonic Philosophy with Christianity. One can see in this presentation reason why they both believed that Plato, at an earlier time, was teaching much of the same message that Christianity brought forth later.
Posted in: Boethius, Books, Chrstianity, Culture, Education, Ethics, Faith, History, Literature, Medievel Philosophy, Philosophy, Religion, Senior Citizens, Theology
PAX AMERICANA?
January 9, 2013
Yale Professor Charles Hill writing Nov. 30 at The Caravan, a blog of the Hoover Institution: The mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler prophesied that “We shall not get through this time without difficulty, for all the factors are prepared.” Kepler was predicting the Thirty Years’ War of 1618-1648 that would launch the modern international state system […]
Posted in: Conservative Politics, Culture, Foreign Policy, Government, History, Military, National Security, Political, Politics, Senior Citizens
Ingratitude
September 1, 2012
The Roman Statesman and Philosopher Lucius Anneaus Seneca believed that ingratitude should be a crime dealt with and punished by the State. Although most all today would disagree that the former should be the case, most today would agree that we live in a time where ingratitude is certainly rampant. Seneca in his book on […]
Philosophy As A Way Of Life And An Adjunct To Theology
July 14, 2012
The following text is from a book review printed in today’s ” Wall Street Journal”. By BRENDAN BOYLE ‘Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.” By the lights of this maxim, taken from the fourth-century B.C. Greek philosopher Epicurus, contemporary philosophy looks awfully vain. Upon opening the […]
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