15 / February
15 / February
Worth Repeating

"[A]n enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful."
--G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

posted at 12:02 AM
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Five years of incompetence speak for themselves.

Posted by: Guido on February 15, 2006 10:23 AM

Guido:

Shouldn't we be a bit more bipartisan? Eight years of law-scoffing and diversion with minor issues, followed by five years of incompetance and reckless treatment of major issues, speak for themselves.

Posted by: scully on February 15, 2006 11:16 AM

Heretics is in the public domain along with a great many of Chesterton's books.

Memoware.com is a great place to grab them if you like reading on a PDA.

Posted by: obi juan on February 15, 2006 12:11 PM

"It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged." - The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21

Visit http://www.chesterton.org/.

Posted by: The Distributist on February 15, 2006 12:22 PM

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."

Posted by: Chesterton Fan on February 15, 2006 01:50 PM

This is one of my favorite Chesterton essays, "On American Morals."

http://www.dur.ac.uk/martin.ward/gkc/books/american-morals.html

Posted by: Brian on February 15, 2006 05:36 PM
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