Quote of the Day - Soren Kierkegaard

Once you label me you negate me.

Soren Kierkegaard

Quote of the Day - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quote of the Day - Theodore Roosevelt

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Theodore Roosevelt

Quote of the Day - Dwight D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

UCLA ranked No. 1 for first time in 11 years

UCLA ranked No. 1 for first time in 11 years
Bruins won Maui Invitational; No. 1 Florida and No. 2 North Carolina lost

Article for the Day

I found the following article thought provoking even though I did not agree with everything. It is easy to argue that the Washington Consensus was not the best advice for developing countries. However, this article dares to say that simply increasing aid is not necessarily the answer. Kudos to the Millenium Challenge Corporation for recognizing this. I am unsure what to think about the article's position on minimizing the emphasis on intellectual property rights. Are we really willing to accept that the Chinese have violated most of these agreements anyway?


How to Help Poor Countries
Nancy Birdsall, Dani Rodrik, and Arvind Subramanian
From Foreign Affairs, July/August 2005

Quote of the Day - John Piper

One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.”

John Piper

Picture of the Day

Great Whites really are scary, no?

Article for the Day - Vietnamese Capitalism

The Song Of The South

Hanoi's communists won the Vietnam War, but southern-born reformers are leading an economic boom as the country opens up to the world.

2008 Predictions Update

Here are my updated predictions for 2008. Governor Mark Warner has pulled out of the race which means the democrats will probably rely on Barack Obama or Hilary Clinton for their nomination. Governor Tom Vilsack could surprise us but there is little indication that would lead us to believe that. The nomination for the democrats will probably come from the Senate. The last Senator to go to the White House was John F. Kennedy and he barely got in. John Kerry tried to defy history in thelast election by not only going from the Senate to the White House but also selecting another Senator as his running mate. Governor Bill Richardson is often mentioned as a VP candidate. He was just reelected and is very popular in the state. If Obama does not run for president, expect him to be mentioned as a VP candidate. Either Richard of Obama could balance the ticket by drawing the minority vote.

George Allen's stock fell like a rock over the last several months and it made it look as though the G.O.P. nomination was John McCain's to lose. However, Governor Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin announced that he will form an exploratory committee. Thompson could be one of the few viable candidate with executive experience. Other candidates have had a large start in fundraising but a lot can happen in two years. Governor Mitt Romney has thrown his hat in the ring also. It is probably safe to say that the G.O.P. nomination will go to either McCain, Romney, or Thompson.

Article for the Day

What will she do? Few people are as polarizing as Hillary Clinton. Today's article shows that partisan politics does not dominate everything in Congress.

Quote of the Day - Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day - Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day - Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day - G.K. Chesterton

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

G.K. Chesterton

In Defense of Politics - Peter Wehner

This well written speech by Peter Wehner of the Ethics and Public Policy Center explains the necessity of politics and that we need not shy away from it.

I am intrigued by the triggered response when the topic of politics comes up. Many are often quick to criticize politics which is merely a mirror into our own souls with real life as its subject and a reflection which is open for all to see.

Quote of the Day - C.S. Lewis

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards. I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice. And at the same time I have very seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others. There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others.

The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now, we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

C.S. Lewis