Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson

Predicts government supported euthanasia, airplanes, helicopters, nuclear weapons, the decline of mainline Protestantism... and in the character of Julian Felsenburgh, perhaps Barack Obama...  in 1907

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Leave conservative governors in place!

The executive at any level has enormous potential for good (and bad, as we know). 

We have enough talent to pull from the legislature, current presidential candidates, business, and military to fill the VP slot.

Question by question, James!

The Castle:

Solicitor: In summing up, it's the Constitution, it's Mabo, it's justice, it's law, it's the vibe, and, uh ... No, that's it. It's the vibe...

Isn't it interesting how many institutions undertook tremendous change during such horrific cultural revolution?

The 1960s attacked virtually every component of traditional society.  At the same time, we thought it smart to reorganize the welfare relationship between the State and the people.  We were in the middle of a hot war (Vietnam) and a Cold War.  And the Catholic Church persisted with the Second Vatican Council.

If any of those occur at another cultural moment, I think the outcomes are very different.

Not an entirely accurate representation of the top 20%:

There was a weakening of marriage, but it was temporary.  Their wealth, education, extended families, etc. were strong enough to pull them out of their nosedive.  It gave them a margin for error that the bottom did not have.  The margins started to fray and it spread and spread.

Yes, yes, yes.

Full knowledge and consent are the hallmarks of a free decision.

Don't we have enough evidence that Planned Parenthood has an aggressive abortion agenda?  Their preference is to abort the child. 

There is a lack of full disclosure of the alternatives.

The risks, mental and medical, are rarely disclosed.

Counselors dismiss the moral concerns of the mother, abusing their emotional state to get them to commit to abortion.

Real criminal rape is covered up (google  Lila Rose)

Clinic workers help victims lie about their under-age status.

And we are to be put on trial for requiring a serious medical examination before undergoing a serious procedure? 

Strange, James, strange.

If medical probing is rape, should I seek prosecution against my proctologist?

Joseph, bingo! 

A libertarian policy recommendation is OFTEN correct when it actively works to expand individual liberty and economic freedom. 

But libertarian strategy often marginalizes the libertarian.  A strict libertarian can easily come to the conclusion that voting is immoral or a waste of time, thereby removing his influence from the electorate.

A libertarian risks becoming a pacifist dependent on the willingness of others to wield a sword on his behalf.

Who are these mythical "independents"?

This election turns just like the rest:  middle class workers and retirees in Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio. 
Mitch is right about a lot.  But was wrong on this.  The social (the moral) is inseparably bound with the economic.

Which way do you want it, Fred?  Here you urge action, then you insist the government "get out" of marriage.

Buckley supported private action, even non-violent resistance, against racism.  But this also includes the private individual's right to discriminate.  (A very libertarian position)

He opposed Big Government, even when Big Gov turns against discrimination.   But this means he also supported the repeal of (federal) Jim Crow.

Great speech, Mr. McGurn... although I liked the Waugh excerpt better the first time I saw it in a speech... years ago, by WFB, Jr.

It's names are legion:

Inductive Fallacy aka the Turkey Problem:  Every day the turkey thinks the farmer loves him, until one day he is separated from his head.

Cliff risk:  The risk that the last in a series of adverse developments will eliminate the residual value of what was recently considered secure. Until that point, all parties assume the situation will auto-correct and that the principal will be paid in full. 

There is no greater benefit to the pro-life cause than the Sisters of Life.