I recently finished reading The Morality of Everyday Life, by Thomas Fleming. Wonderful book. I hope to get the time to read it through again before it’s due back at the library and actual put together some thoughts on the book.
Here is a little excerpt, concerning affirmative action:
How can poor and underprivileged victims of discrimination [...]
Archive for July, 2009
The Morality of Everyday Life, by Thomas Fleming
Posted in Culture, Morality on 07.11.2009 | Leave a Comment »
As usual, Peter Schiff is right
Posted in Economy, Politics on 07.11.2009 | Leave a Comment »
Peter explains, in a very easy to understand way, why minimum wage laws hurt unskilled workers: Where Have All the Gas Pumpers Gone?
Before bringing on another worker, an employer must be convinced that the added productivity will exceed the added cost (this includes not just wages, but all payroll taxes and other benefits.) So if [...]
Prayer for Government
Posted in Catholicism, Government on 07.10.2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Fr. Z, Archbishop John Carroll’s Prayer for Government:
We pray, Thee O Almighty and Eternal God! Who through Jesus Christ hast revealed Thy glory to all nations, to preserve the works of Thy mercy, that Thy Church, being spread through the whole world, may continue with unchanging faith in the confession of Thy Name. We [...]
Rights at the expense of duty
Posted in Health Care, Politics on 07.02.2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jacob Hornberger points out that no one has a right to health care:
… If I have a right to something, then doesn’t that mean that you have a correlative duty to provide it? If you’re a doctor, then it means that you are required to serve my needs, like it or not.
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Now, the proponent of [...]
At least they kept #3
Posted in Constitution on 07.02.2009 | Leave a Comment »
A video from reason.tv on things Liberals and Conservatives can agree on:
I am a legitimist
Posted in Government, Monarchy on 07.02.2009 | Leave a Comment »
The title is part of a quote from Archduke Otto von Habsburg, the eldest son of Blessed Karl I, the last Emperor of Austria-Hungary. The Archduke once stated:
I am often asked if I am a republican or a monarchist. I am neither, I am a legitimist: I am for legitimate government. You could never have [...]
Long live the King!
Posted in Catholicism, Government, Monarchy on 07.01.2009 | Leave a Comment »
Or emperor, as the case may be.
John Zmirak has a good post at InsideCatholic on the Hapsburgs: Praying with the Kaisers:
Until the Reformation destroyed the Church’s power to resist the whims of kings — who suddenly had the option of pulling their nation out of communion with the pope — no king would have had [...]
