Last night Si and I snuggled up with a good book and a glass of sparkling white grape juice {seizure meds and the Real Stuff don’t mix} last night in order to wind up Mother’s Day weekend {which, for us, was also birthday and anniversary weekend}. It was a good end to a wonderful weekend. We read chapter eight {which is the first chapter of part three} entitled Back to Babel and it was fascinating. If you read America Alone, I Continue Reading…
May 10, 2010America Alone: The End of the World As We Know Itby Mark SteynI appreciated Steyn’s piercing analysis in America Alone. He is one of those great thinkers who not only sees the individual issues, but also sees how they connect. Even though the premise of the book seems to be dealing with the Islamic “issue” he really manages to explain the demographic crisis facing every single Western nation {America is the only nation having close to enough babies to maintain itself}, Continue Reading…
March 17, 2010America Alone: The End of the World As We Know Itby Mark SteynI was going to write a separate post on city zoning ordinances, since I recently read almost our entire city code and was struck by the peculiar presuppositions involved in zoning laws, but then I realized that all of this really fits quite neatly with Mark Steyn’s discussion on the legally required {in some states; in other states the government merely harasses raw dairymen} pasteurization of dairy products, so I’m Continue Reading…
March 8, 2010America Alone: The End of the World As We Know Itby Mark SteynWell, I certainly planned to blog this book a lot more than I did. Sometimes that happens. Si and I finished it, and then the next day we began Dr. George Grant’s The Blood of the Moon which I am hoping will give us a {broad} historical and Christian perspective on the issues surrounding Islam in the 21st century. I loved Steyn’s book, his analysis seems fairly spot on, Continue Reading…
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