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Category Archives: Regulation
Book Write-Up: The Forgotten Man, by Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaes. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. HarperCollins, 2007. I enjoyed Amity Shlaes’ The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. Whereas her biography of Calvin Coolidge was rather heavy, her prose in … Continue reading
Roger Morris’ Richard Milhous Nixon 16
I have two items for my blog post today on Roger Morris’ Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of the American Politician. The context is Richard Nixon’s acrimonious campaign for the U.S. Senate against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas. 1. On page … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Communism, Daily Quiet Time, History, I Chronicles, Political Philosophy, Politics, Regulation, Religion
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Jerry Voorhis: The Strange Case of Richard Milhous Nixon 4
In my post today on Jerry Voorhis’ critical look at the Nixon Administration, The Strange Case of Richard Milhous Nixon (copyright 1972, 1973), I’ll focus on Voorhis’ discussion of President Richard Nixon’s environmental policies. My conservative brother has brought up … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Political Philosophy, Politics, Regulation
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Clear and Present Dangers 6: Government Makes Matters Worse
In my latest reading of Clear and Present Dangers: A Conservative View of American Government (copyright 1975), M. Stanton Evans argues essentially that government intervention makes problems worse. According to Evans, increasing the minimum wage discourages businesses from hiring African-American … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Political Philosophy, Politics, Regulation, School
Tagged 1978 Airline Deregulation Act, Civil Aeronautics Board, Clear and Present Dangers, Federal Aviation Authority, M. Stanton Evans, minimum wage
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Clear and Present Dangers 3: Regulations
For my write-up today on Clear and Present Dangers: A Conservative View of America’s Government (copyright 1975), I’ll use as my starting-point something that M. Stanton Evans says on page 76, in a footnote: “A principal horror story in this … Continue reading
Posted in Political Philosophy, Politics, Regulation
Tagged Clear and Present Dangers, M. Stanton Evans, OSHA
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Robert Reich’s I’ll Be Short 4: At What Price?
I finished Robert Reich’s I’ll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society. Reich had a profound chapter on feminism, as he talked about his wife being denied tenure, how women are not always listened to in male-dominated sayings, ways … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Environment, Political Philosophy, Politics, Regulation
Tagged business, education, Feminism, Humanities, Regulation, Robert Reich, science, Tenure
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Arianna Huffington’s Third World America 5
My latest reading of Arianna Huffington’s Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream was rather discouraging, for it concerned the influence of special interests on the government. According to Arianna, while … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Politics, Regulation, Religion
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Reactions to the First Night of the Republican National Convention
I just watched the first night of the Republican National Convention. Here are some of my reactions. 1. I can only speak for myself personally, but I thought that the Convention made quite an impression when it comes to policy. … Continue reading
Posted in Candidates, Economics, Environment, Political Philosophy, Politics, Regulation
Tagged business, climate, economy, government, Politics, transportation
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“It’s On the Role of Government”
Rachel Held Evans has posted her “Ask a Christian Progressive” post, which features Progressive Tim King, of Sojourners. I especially appreciated Tim’s response to the question “What myth about progressives would you like to debunk?” He says: “It’s on the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Postmodernism, Regulation
Tagged cars, environment, government, Politics, science, transportation
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Tertullian the (Semi-)Arian?
Johannes Quasten, Patrology, vol. II: The Ante-Nicene Literature After Irenaeus (Westminster: Christian Classics, 1990) 326-327. …Tertullian could not shake off entirely the influence of subordinationism. The old distinction between the Logos endiathetos and the Logos prophorikos, the Word internal or … Continue reading
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