Month: October 2009

• Government Workers Are Structurally Hamstrung

  People who work in government are normal people (you might be one) but their organization hamstrings them — necessarily.    It is not possible for a government institution to compete with a private institution. Their work takes place in an adversarial arena with legislated transparency. Nobody can do well in this environment.   It’s like…

• The Presidency

  To the Left, the President is the Chief Executive of the country. That makes us his employees. In the Constitutional vision, he is Chief Executive of the government. That makes us his customers. You can’t have conversations when your words mean the opposite.  

• John 9: Jesus talks about design

  The sermon today really was about the healing of the blind man in John 9, though it might be hard to see that from these notes: 1. Man chose a random universe. If this part is left out, the rest makes no sense. And this is the part secularists insist on leaving out, so that…

• J.R.R. Tolkien: on “eucatastrophe”

  “…the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with a joy that brings tears (which I argued it is the highest function of fairy-stories to produce). And I was there led to the view that it produces its peculiar effect because it is a sudden glimpse of Truth, your whole nature chained in…