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2009-07-07T07:43:44-04:00

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Home again

Last updated on: July 7, 2009 at 7:43 am By Gene Veith

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Well, we’re back from the road trip, in need of a vacation from our vacation. A good part of that time, I couldn’t get on the internet, which was kind of a refreshing vacation in itself. Tomorrow we play the other role, the one we’ve been inflicting on our relatives, as we host friends visiting us from Germany. The good old summertime. Anyway, we had a good time, with an interesting conference on classical and Lutheran education at Concordia, Missouri.... Read more

2009-07-07T07:25:51-04:00

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What’s the deal with Sarah Palin?

Last updated on: July 7, 2009 at 7:25 am By Gene Veith

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In terms of the doctrine of vocation, people leave their callings all the time when God calls them to something else, including retirement. But to leave one’s vocation out of ambition for another vocation that one does not have but merely desires seems wrong. For Sarah Palin to step down from such an important office as governor to which she has been elected seems an abdication of responsibility. I suspect some big financial backer has persuaded her that running for... Read more

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2009-07-07T07:15:50-04:00

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Why did economists miss the economic meltdown?

Last updated on: July 7, 2009 at 7:15 am By Gene Veith

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Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson raises a good question: Why did virtually all economists of every school of thought fail to see what was happening in the economy they presumably study? One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and financial crisis in decades — possibly since the Great Depression — and the one group that spends most of its waking hours analyzing the economy... Read more

Economics

2009-07-03T06:03:46-04:00

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Happy Birthday, America!

Last updated on: July 3, 2009 at 6:03 am By Gene Veith

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Tomorrow is America’s birthday. It’s a good time to think about where we are as a nation. Are we still the land of the free and the home of the brave, even though a terrorist attack nearly a decade ago still has us taking off our shoes at the airport, and even though an economic downturn has us running away from our heritage of economic freedom? Or, despite our problems and backsliding are we still pretty much the country our... Read more

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2009-07-02T06:05:44-04:00

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The vocation of manual labor

Last updated on: July 2, 2009 at 6:05 am By Gene Veith

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Michael B. Crawford had a Ph.D. in philosophy, which led him to becoming a motorcycle mechanic. He explains the connection in his new book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work. From a review: In his book Crawford argues for a fresh view of skilled labor, especially that of the traditional trades. Go ahead, he’s saying: Get your hands dirty. Own your work. His book mixes descriptions of the pleasures and challenges of diagnosing faulty oil... Read more

Vocation

2009-07-02T06:00:49-04:00

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Health Care Rationing is N.I.C.E.

Last updated on: July 2, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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One Eternal Day assembles material from a number of sources on how nationalized health care can lead to rationing which can lead to passive euthanasia. The whole post is worth reading, but I call your attention to what is already happening in England: From Wesley J. Smith’s blog, Secondhand Smoke, a series of posts describing how rationing actually works in a country that has nationalized health care. In the UK, utilitarian bioethicists control who gets–and who is denied–treatment via the... Read more

2009-07-01T06:00:14-04:00

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What is hypocrisy?

Last updated on: July 1, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Over at the First Things blog, there is a good discussion of the nature of hypocrisy, analyzing the charges against the South Carolina governor and adulterer Mark Sanford. First, Joe Carter: The American Heritage Dictionary defines hypocrisy as “The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.” The British literary critic William Hazlitt once explained, “He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all... Read more

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2009-07-01T05:30:57-04:00

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The right to keep and bear knives

Last updated on: July 1, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Congress is fighting over an administrative proposal to expand the definition of switchblades so as to ban certain currently-legal pocketknives: Opponents of the Obama administration’s plan to expand the definition of “switchblades” and block the importing of many common pocketknives suffered an early setback in Congress this week, but they vow the Capitol Hill knife fight isn’t over. “Everyone from our first responders, law enforcement officials, Boy Scouts and hunters will be affected by this regulation,” said Rep. Bob Latta,... Read more

Law

2009-06-30T06:00:21-04:00

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Immorality taints moral issues, so G.O.P. avoiding them

Last updated on: June 30, 2009 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Social conservatives have been pushing a moral agenda. But now so many of them have been caught in moral failures, they are getting an immoral reputation, to the point that other Republicans don’t want to be associated with them or their issues. That is the main point of an article in the conservative Washington Times with the headline Social conservatives fall from moral high ground: Republicans retreat from values claims: Social conservatives, the once-powerful force that focused the Republican agenda... Read more

Ethics

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2009-06-30T05:30:27-04:00

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Other dictatorships are censoring news from Iran

Last updated on: June 30, 2009 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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China, Cuba, Burma, and other authoritarian regimes are censoring news of the Iranian uprisings, lest their people get ideas. What do you think will be the fruit of the pro-democracy demonstrations in Iran? Read more

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