Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Pirates!

Interesting commentary on the recent spate of pirate attacks... and our inability, or unwillingness, to do anything about it.
 
"Piracy, of course, is hardly the only form of barbarism at work today: There are the suicide bombers on Israeli buses, the stonings of Iranian women, and so on. But piracy is certainly the most primordial of them, and our collective inability to deal with it says much about how far we've regressed in the pursuit of what is mistakenly thought of as a more humane policy. A society that erases the memory of how it overcame barbarism in the past inevitably loses sight of the meaning of civilization, and the means of sustaining it."

Monday, November 10, 2008

Good Articles

First, an excellent word on conservatism in a dark hour for the "conservatives."
Confusion About Conservatives, Udo Middleman
 
And then a point, counter-point on the sovereignty of God. Or are they all that far apart?
Udo
Piper