Santorum Wisdom

Senator Rick Santorum has written a book called " It Takes a Family" and was kind enough to let National Review print a chapter as a series of articles on judges and the courts. The first three can be linked to, here, here and here. These are must read articles for my fellow conservatives and possibly even the book. I look forward to the next two of the series.

"I often use the extended metaphor of various kinds of “capital.” When it comes to what has happened to our moral capital in the past generation or two, I am stymied for a verb to use. It wasn’t “squandered” or “spent down”; it didn’t “trickle away.” The verbs that come to mind are destroyed and replaced. Traditional morality is being destroyed, and being replaced by something that claims to be morality, but ultimately has little social benefit or ability to sustain the democratic experiment. In China during the so-called Great Leap Forward at the end of the 1950s, Chairman Mao ordered every town and village to participate in smelting iron for steel production. The promise was that through the new techniques of Communism, China would quickly surpass Western capitalist nations in steel. Obedient to their orders, peasants melted down pots and pans and farm implements, with the promise that shiny new and better utensils of steel would be quickly returned. What in fact happened was that these villagers were left with large lumps of useless iron — and with no tools left to farm with. One of the world’s greatest famines soon followed. What we Americans did with our moral capital over the last generation is like what those Chinese peasants did with their capital tools for farming: On government orders — in our case, on Court orders — we melted it down, for nothing."

And from the editors at NRO is this analysis.

Also: Michelle Malkin has a piece on why the FBI keeps an "eye" on the loony lefty groups, quite enlightening, I thought they were against violence even for a good cause.