tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post1589386043382605307..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: Cuomo: Catholics Need Not ApplyDon Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-62880092563943479562014-01-25T13:47:37.634-05:002014-01-25T13:47:37.634-05:00PB,
Right. And an additional link connects the St...PB,<br /><br />Right. And an additional link connects the Straussians with on Mises and Hayek, most especially “The Constitution of Liberty.” Don Pescihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-88117107583640161192014-01-24T19:18:52.225-05:002014-01-24T19:18:52.225-05:00Wait this can't be true? You mean Cuomo who s...Wait this can't be true? You mean Cuomo who set up HUD to be a criminal enterprise for the democratic party?<br /><br />Cuomo who lost 59 Billion dollars out of HUD and was the father of the worst housing market collapse in history? <br /><br />http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/092106_about_cuomo.shtml<br /><br />Now you're accusing him of being Anti-Catholic????<br /><br />Don it can't be true??? s/off<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-46148598704372623672014-01-24T14:02:24.170-05:002014-01-24T14:02:24.170-05:00National Review‘s William F. Buckley Jr. and Willm...National Review‘s William F. Buckley Jr. and Willmoore Kendall considered Strauss a comrade, as did Russell Kirk—though he came to have a more negative view of Strauss’s disciples after the 1980s.<br /><br />This is worth stating explicitly because less historically informed commentators than Gottfried—who touches on such associations just briefly—may think there’s some mystery as to how latter-day Straussians came to occupy a prominent place in the conservative movement. The simple answer is: they inherited it, both from Strauss himself and from Harry Jaffa, who is ideologically idiosyncratic but has been influential in right-wing Republican and NR circles since the early 1960s.<br />http://www.theamericanconservative.com/mccarthy/leo-strauss-and-the-rights-civil-war/peter brushnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-45605435409891398712014-01-23T12:57:56.730-05:002014-01-23T12:57:56.730-05:00Orestes Bronson
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Thanks, Don. I don't th...Orestes Bronson<br />------<br />Thanks, Don. I don't think I've ever heard of O.B.<br />I think I first met Kendall in one of Buckley's conservative compendia, "Dream Walking," or other. I bumped into Kendall's "Contra Mundum" in a (now defunct) used bookstore many years ago. His books are nowhere in any of our libraries, not even in the excellent East Hartford one, where there was once upon a time a conservative head librarian. But, them internets are marvelous in providing e-texts and access to out of print books.<br /> I believe the argument Kendall and M.E.Bradford had with Harry Jaffa to be critical to a definition of American identity and to a definition of conservatism. As much as we have to, and as much as Bradford and W.K. certainly did respect Jaffa's scholarship, they had the better of the argument about Lincoln and the founding. Kendall died before the nineteen-sixties really hit the fan, and before the decades long expansion of federal government's ambitions and control. I believe he'd be a lot more appreciative of Buckley's libertarian tendencies than he was were he alive today to see the mess we've made of his country. peter brushnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-90142102203831784422014-01-23T10:47:26.057-05:002014-01-23T10:47:26.057-05:00Peter,
Don’t know if you read this one on Kendall...Peter,<br /><br />Don’t know if you read this one on Kendall: http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/01/maverick-conservatism-willmoore-kendall.html<br /><br />Its forward was written by Bill Buckley. Kendall always reminded me of Roger Williams in one respect. Williams quarreled with everyone, establishing a church in which, at the end, he was the sole worshiper.<br /><br />Buckley used to say of Kendall that he could never have more than one friend at a time. Why confuse things?<br /><br />Also, you probably should have a look – if you haven’t already – at Orestes Bronson’s “The American Republic.” Bronson is in print again. All his works are being republished, but TAR is his magnum Opus. Like William and Kendall, he shucked off the fashionable creeds of the day with remarkable speed and ended up in the Catholic Church quarreling with John Henry Newman across the water -- and his own bishop. He drank down the German Romantic philosophers like port wine, an amazing bolt of lightning.<br /><br />Of course, as soon as his train arrived at Rome, he was persona non grata with his former transcendentalist friends: Emerson, Thoreau, who was his roommate for a time, Bronson Alcott, the whole bunch. <br />Don Pescihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-49773494239686506652014-01-22T23:42:25.024-05:002014-01-22T23:42:25.024-05:00Cuomo's bigotry appears broader than anti-Cath...Cuomo's bigotry appears broader than anti-Catholicism. He's got the kind of open mind referred to by Allan Bloom in his "Closing of the American Mind," the kind we modern Americanos fervently hope is created by our education "system," even if we prefer that our enlightened ones be more restrained in the expression of their secular/progressive moral superiority than the punk Governor.<br /> <br />The Bill of Rights provides (superfluous) protection of religions from the Feds, but we have no obligation to let more (or fewer)Catholics into the country based on an equality principle we imagine to be fundamental to our founding (and that we imagine with Emma Lazarus applies across the universe). On the other hand, I'm with Willmoore Kendall in thinking that the U.S. Constitution's purpose as stated in the preamble is entirely consistent with Catholic doctrine, if not with John Locke.<br />----<br />so we the American people adopt, by our own free act, an overriding purpose, a supreme symbol, a commitment that is truly ours unless and until we repudiate or modify it—”in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” ... Never mind that the overriding purpose is a six-fold purpose—nations that get it into their heads that there is one good, other than salvation, that merits absolute priority over all other goods, are sure to come to a bad end—as, happily, we have not. (Well, not yet, anyhow.) Never mind, either, that the six-fold purpose is pretty obviously cribbed from Medieval Catholic political philosophy—there are worse wells to carry your jugs to (for example: the John Locke well that the framers of the Declaration carried their jug to). In short: I find myself unable to read the Preamble of the Constitution (which we have never repudiated, never revised) as other than an express repudiation of the tenet of the Declaration’s creed that might seem to commit us somehow to equality.<br /><br />And I conclude: The Declaration of Independence does not commit us to equality as a national goal—for more reasons than you can shake a stick at.<br /><br />http://www.mmisi.org/IR/24_02/kendall.pdfpeter brushnoreply@blogger.com