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Eric Scheske

Election Bonus

Jonah Goldberg at the LA Times recounts a handful of 2008 obituaries about the Republican party and boasts about the ascendancy of liberalism [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-1102-goldberg-demography-20101102,0,7873396.column] . Pretty funny, in light of what is apparently going to happen

Tuesday

Illusory Tuesday "This afternoon on National Public Radio James Fallows proclaimed that 'there is essentially no disagreement whatsoever' among economists that more stimulus spending is necessary today." Fortunately, people like the folks at Cafe Hayek provide correctives to such unbridled bunk [http://cafehayek.com/2010/10/

Halloween Humor

Kimmel: "Some parents ruin Halloween for their kids by not allowing them to get candy. The way our economy is going, it may be good practice for our kids to start begging for food."

Something for Sunday Morning

"The greatest obstacles to the soul's trying to follow Christ and to help others have their origin in a disordered love of self. At times this leads us to overestime our strength. At other times, it brings discouragement and despondency as a result of our own weaknesses

The Evening Eudemon

“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive,” he said. “In the middle of the Civil War you had a guy named Lincoln paying people $16,000 for every 40 miles of track they

Friday

Hallowbeers Man, lots of spooky beer stories out there today. I guess it's no surprise, since "Halloween is actually the biggest weekend of the year for beer sales [http://www.nacsonline.com/NACS/News/Daily/Pages/ND1028103.aspx]." The drinking theme is so popular, "nearly

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Received in an Email From the "That's Just Wrong" Halloween Files:

Thursday

From the Notebooks If it's possible to love a fictional philosophical character, I've loved one for many years. It's SÃ¶ren Kierkegaard's “knight of faith," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_of_faith] which he describes in the pioneering work of

Morning Bonus

> "On average, our basic food costs have increased by an incredible 48% over the last year (measured by wheat, corn, oats, and canola prices). From the price at the pump to heating your stove, energy costs are up 23% on average (heating oil, gasoline, natural gas). A little

Wednesday

Not much today. We held our pumpkin-carving family party last night. I'm whipped. I did, however, salvage enough time to read this neat little essay by Lew Rockwell: What We Can Learn From the Middle Ages [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/world-of-salamanca158.html]. The School