- Anniversary reflections.
- Affirming the unsupportable.
- Rooting for the Dark Horse – maybe.
Category: Political Matters
Tasty Tidbits 9/11/11 minus 1
- What it takes to turn Democrats against immigration.
- Back to the land …
- reel mower in hand.
- Shopping list.
- Texas executions, again.
- Creationism and the liberal elite.
Tasty Tidbits 9/8/11
- Losing faith.
- Kerygma and Creed.
- Fully invested in drunken sailors.
- Cheering for killing.
- There will never be another Hitch.
- 2 mpg! Woohoo!
Political potpourri 9/7/11
- Doubling down on Bushism.
- Corruptio optimi pessima.
- Californicating the law.
Tasty Tidbits 9/7/11
- Preventive Medicine.
- Crisis and Leviathan.
- On naturalism.
- Paradise at Ground Zero.
- Serving the work.
- It must be poetry, I guess.
- Let us litanize.
Tasty Tidbits 9/6/11
- Amendment 14, Section 5.
- Gallows humor.
- The Conquest of Nature.
Tasty Tidbits 9/3/11
- Regenerating what?!
- Another book added to the wish list.
- Dropping back in?
- Why does it work there but not here?
- Boehner’s rebuff has precedent
- Very pointed questions for GOP hopefuls.
- Is candidates’ religion relevant?
Dropping back into the Culture Wars
[12/25/11. I can’t believe I wrote this a scant 3 months ago. That issue of Touchtone did a real Huey Long on me, I guess. I leave it here as standing proof that I’m sensitively dependent on initial conditions. Tipsy]
Having announced my withdrawal from the Culture Wars 18 months ago (I actually dropped out before I blogged it), I’m now on the brink of repenting and dropping back in.
What has shaken me up is a feature in Touchstone Magazine‘s 25th anniversary edition, The French Connection, which likens America today not to 1916 Tsarist Russia, but to pre-1789 France. Continue reading “Dropping back into the Culture Wars”
Tasty Tidbits 9/1/11 Bonus 2nd Edition
- Runaway Capitalism
- Francis Schaeffer and Dominionism.
- The national purpose conundrum.
- Argumentum ad populum writ large.
- At the movies.
Tasty Tidbits 8/26/11
- War in Illinois
- War on the family farm.
- War on Evangelicals.
- War on Marriage at Slate.
- Are Evangelicals “Conservative”?
- Polling sensationalism instead of sobriety.
- Another WaPo columnist gets the vapors.
- Walking.
- Repentance.
