Dec 20 2006
Over this break I’m reading Steven Hayward’s Greatness: Reagan, Churchill and the making of extraordinary leaders. A choice quote retelling one of Churchill’s finer jabs: One of the most fondly recalled anecdotes has Churchill moving to the farthest urinal from Labour Party rival Clement Attlee in the men’s room. Attlee jested that Churchill was being [...]
Dec 19 2006
For further edification this Winter break, I point you to Richard Sherlock’s essay in the Summer 2006 issue of Modern Age entitled, “The Secret of Straussianism.” As a reader familiar with Strauss’ works would know, one of the ways in which the great thinkers have spread their ‘secret teachings’ (according to Strauss) was through what [...]
Dec 15 2006
I present you some food for thought over the weekend. The first comes from The Corner this morning: In Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon, Arabs are struggling to create post-Enlightenment states. The trouble is that too many of them don’t understand the Enlightenment. This is spot-on and something I think too many pundits and citizens alike [...]
Dec 13 2006
From Breitbart, via Drudge: President Bush said Wednesday he would “not be rushed” into a decision on a strategy change for Iraq Rushed? He’s had three friggin’ years!
Dec 13 2006
From George Will, published at RealClearPolitics: There should be two Supreme Courts, one to reverse the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the other to hear all other cases. Last term, more of the Supreme Court’s caseload — 18 of 82 cases (22 percent) — came from the liberal 9th Circuit, based in San Francisco, [...]
Dec 11 2006
I found this article from Rita’s blog and loved the first paragraph, which I will share below: There’s a case to be made that the single most intellectually and politically influential neighborhood in the United States is Chicago’s Hyde Park. Integrated, affluent and quiet, the 1.6 square-mile enclave on the city’s south side is like [...]
Dec 11 2006
…abounds at home and abroad. In Oregon, all Christmas trees have been removed from Sea-Tac airport after a Rabbi insisted on installing his own 8-foot menorah with a lighting ceremony. If he didn’t get his candlestick or the trees weren’t removed, he said he would sue. The pansies at Sea-Tac responded that, the trees that [...]
Dec 08 2006
FOXNews reports that a 4-year-old girl was mauled by a cougar at a 7-year-old’s birthday party. Here is the text of the article with my comments: A 4-year-old girl was mauled at a children’s birthday party by a cougar that had been brought in by a wild-animal business to entertain the youngsters, authorities said. Who [...]
Dec 07 2006
Jonah Goldberg at The Corner shares a letter from a reader on his (the reader’s) problems with the Iraq Study Group. The letter makes a good point, but the highlight is the closing line: And that Jim Baker should not only think but state PUBLICLY(!!!!) that if Syria cooperates we’d get the Golan Heights back [...]
Dec 04 2006
The best quote I’ve found in my notes from this quarter: Prof.: Our access to the innerworld of lambies is limited. Student: It probably makes it more lamby for the lion. Sounds like something from the UnCommon App.
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