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Archive for February 2nd, 2009

There’s no crying in baseball…er, tennis

Posted by Don Bryant on February 2, 2009

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What is a conservative?

Posted by Don Bryant on February 2, 2009

This is the response of Russell Kirk. A thoughtful piece.

Ten Conservative Principles
RUSSELL KIRK
It is not possible to draw up a neat catalogue of conservatives’ convictions; nevertheless, I offer you, summarily, ten general principles.
 
Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. So far as it is possible to determine what conservatives believe, the first principles of the conservative persuasion are derived from what leading conservative writers and public men have professed during the past two centuries. After some introductory remarks on this general theme, I will proceed to list ten such conservative principles. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by Don Bryant on February 2, 2009

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Quote for Today 2/2/09

Posted by Don Bryant on February 2, 2009

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good–above all, that we are better than someone else–I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil. The real test of being in the presence of god is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. It is better to forget about yourself altogether.
–C. S. Lewis

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