Friday, December 26, 2003
This is one of the most encouraging articles I have read for some time.
Public Policy and American Business: The Privatization Revolution --[Mackinac Center for Public Policy]
"For much of the 20th Century, trends in both ideas and the public policies that resulted from them were marching in directions unfriendly to liberty the world over. Statism — the notion that society's needs and problems are best addressed by politics and the political process — dominated public discussion. Respect for personal liberties, private property, and freedom of commerce in open, competitive markets fell victim to the state’s false but alluring vow of economic security. Governments grew immensely — commanding ever-greater portions of personal income, regulating and even nationalizing businesses, making public burdens of millions of people."
Public Policy and American Business: The Privatization Revolution --[Mackinac Center for Public Policy]
"For much of the 20th Century, trends in both ideas and the public policies that resulted from them were marching in directions unfriendly to liberty the world over. Statism — the notion that society's needs and problems are best addressed by politics and the political process — dominated public discussion. Respect for personal liberties, private property, and freedom of commerce in open, competitive markets fell victim to the state’s false but alluring vow of economic security. Governments grew immensely — commanding ever-greater portions of personal income, regulating and even nationalizing businesses, making public burdens of millions of people."
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Thursday, December 25, 2003
Merry Christmas to all. The link below will take you to an article I wrote a long time ago about loving Christimas. I still love it--every bit of it, from Rudolph to some kid's front tooth. Yes, the real message of Christmas is often lost to us, and that message is not about our good will toward each other, important as that is, but about God's good will toward us. "Glory to God in the highest, good will toward men" is what the angels sang. [Yes, yes, I know that there are certain bilious people out there who think that the real message of Christmas is that there is no Santa Claus, the angels didn't sing, that we don't know how many Wise Men there were, and that Jesus was not born in December. These are the people you meet who always look as though they just got through sucking a lemon. Oh yes, Santa is AntiChrist. If these people prevail, every i will be crossed and every t will be dotted, or something like that, and we will be no closer to the Real Meaning of Christmas.]
God's good will toward us is not an abstract feeling of benevolence, but is manifested in the sending of His Eternal Son to take on human flesh, so that in that flesh He might represent His covenant people, suffering for their sins, and rising up from the dead to assure by His power that all of them will be saved and preserved unto eternal life forever with Him. Amen and Amen.
Click on this link: I love Christmas!
God's good will toward us is not an abstract feeling of benevolence, but is manifested in the sending of His Eternal Son to take on human flesh, so that in that flesh He might represent His covenant people, suffering for their sins, and rising up from the dead to assure by His power that all of them will be saved and preserved unto eternal life forever with Him. Amen and Amen.
Click on this link: I love Christmas!
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