Dalrymple has written a short piece about Spitzer and morality in the public sphere. It contains fundamental truths that anyone interested in morality and law needs to understand. It'll take you three minutes to read. Excerpt:
[M]an is a creature so constituted that he cannot live in a world of facts alone: he has no choice but to live in a world of values as well. One cannot think about means without thinking about ends, as Pisani herself demonstrates when she argues that “if Spitzer wanted to dedicate some of his apparently endless stock of moral outrage to prostitution, he would have done better to crusade for health and safety regulations in the sex trade than for abolition.” Pisani's moral judgments are different from Spitzer's, but they are moral judgments nonetheless. She forgets the famous dictum of a man most revered in the world of science, Albert Einstein: “Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.”
. . . [A]ll social policies are molded by morality
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Best collection of perfect-time photos I've seen. Unfortunately, I have no idea how many are cropped/fake.
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I've read a fair amount by Robert Higgs. He's no nut. In this piece, he examines the start of U.S. involvement in WWII, and he corrects a popular erroneous view. Note: It's long (I, admittedly, only scanned parts of it, such is my limited time this morning). If you want the gist of his historical argument, read the block quote in the middle.
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James Taranto shreds Obama and digs a little deeper into his minister's theology. Some of the best stuff I've read about the minister scandal. Excerpt:
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. . . . Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
