Daily Archives: May 17, 2010

Natural Law, The Constitution & Radical Plurality

The U.S. Constitution was established to secure the rights declared in the Declaration of Independence.  The Declaration is really a declared anthropology grounded in Natural Law.  However, Madison was aware of the Aristotelian injunction toward Democracy when he wrote “democracy … Continue reading

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Walter Laqueur: The Last Days of Europe

For decades now, after the demise of Marxism, Continental Europe has basked in the shadow of Pax Americana.  Its welfare state inviting the masses of unassimilated Islamic youth from the basin of the Mediterranean.  Today is it known as Eurabia … Continue reading

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Max Boot & Mark Halperin: How Islam Win’s Against The West

The extraordinary devotion to the development and application of technology in pursuit of war aims makes the West seemingly unconquerable.  However, the revolution in military affairs possesses an Achilles heel rapidly exposing the West to defeat. We must remember that … Continue reading

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Charles Darwin & Harry Jaffa: Evolution & Constitutional Government

The attempt, inherent in Darwinism, is to reduce man’s humanity to the outcome of a blind struggle of material forces denies, in effect, the ground in nature and reason of man’s personal and political freedom. Harry Jaffa is the foremost … Continue reading

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A Soft Depotism

The American political left, whose insistence on purity of means is disguised as an unwillingness to deal with the messy requirements of governing, makes them unfit to serve high office.  Combatting the challenges of either Marxism or radical Islamic fundamentalism … Continue reading

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John Courtney Murray & Limitations of Dignitatis Humanae

For those who firmly believe that they can uncritically use the documents of the Second Vatican Council to serve political agendas today must be exposed. Murray argued that the principal of human dignity means that the State must remain neutral … Continue reading

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Peter Drucker: Management In Service To Faith

“People get more money when they produce more value for other people.  Longterm success is about constantly discovering ways to create value.  Reward all activities that add to the bottom line.  Remember incentives matter.  Have employees act like owners.  Management … Continue reading

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In Memory of Eric Voegelin: Politics In Service of Faith

“When impetuous young men are repelled by the vulgarity of democracy, Plato can point out to them that energy, pride, and will to rule can indeed establish the despotism of a spiritually corrupt elite, but not a just government; and … Continue reading

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William F. Buckley Jr. & The Crisis of Conservatism

“Conservatism is no longer sutured together by the galvanizing presence of Marxism.  In the absence of such external threats attenuations are happening.”                                     … Continue reading

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Fydor Dostoevsky

“Beauty is the battlefield where God and the Devil war for the soul of man”

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