Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in Philosophy, life, politics on Feb 7th, 2008
Now that Romney has dropped out, there’s no alternative to McCain.
This is all a very fascinating situation. I think the GOP is crumbling.
Looks like I’ll be voting for Congress this year and leaving the “President” box blank. Kind of fun, actually. There’s nothing like a good crisis over things you really care about to make [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2008
The choice for Republicans is now, for all intents and purposes, between McCain and Romney. McCain isn’t a conservative, and Romney is trying to act like one now (even though I don’t think anybody thinks he was one before he decided being one was the way to get elected).
Today, Kathryn Jean Lopez (editor for National [...]
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It’s as good as any politician’s speech on religion that I’ve ever heard, and is far better than most attempts by politicians to deal with religion.
It is evidence of the following fact:
Politics is founded upon — and takes its ongoing motive force from — value judgments. Therefore, political theory and moral-/value-/ethical-theory are inseparable.
The question [...]
Posted in Philosophy, politics, religion on Dec 3rd, 2007
The Rise of the Tyrant has been put on hold in Venezuela (Chavez loses constitutional vote) even if it’s taken a giant leap forward in Russia.
When I speak of “the Rise of the Tyrant,” I do so in Plato’s terms (see here; do a ctrl-F search for “And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy” [...]
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, politics on Nov 11th, 2007
I find socialist leaders (not socialist normal people) who criticize other leaders for being power-hungry amusing. Witness Chavez: Spanish King Tells Chavez to “Shut Up”
Chavez is giving socialism a bad name. Socialism is about everyone working together. But if the socialist leader person can’t keep a civil tongue, what kind of leader (example) is he?
It [...]
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, politics on Nov 10th, 2007
I was reading a post yesterday about voting your principles rather than voting pragmatically (which reminds me of all that Clinton stuff). It was a fellow Christian who, unlike myself, is a Huckabee supporter in the mode of James Dobson. You’d be violating your principles if you, like Pat Robertson, went for Giuliani, said said [...]
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