Entries from February 2011

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Prayer of Praise for February 20, 2011

“I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.” Psalm 35:18 Who is like You, O LORD?  Indeed, to ask the question is to answer it.  For You alone are from everlasting to everlasting.  You alone are uncreated, One God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.  You keep […]

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

How the U.S. Code came to be

If you have an infinite number of monkeys and an infinite number of typewriters, you will eventually get Hamlet. If you have one monkey with a typewriter, you will quickly get the U.S. Code. I thought of this while listening to Henry Hazlitt destroy John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money on […]

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

J. Gresham Machen on educational standardization

“Now, I am perfectly ready to admit that standardization in some spheres is a good thing. It is a good thing in the making of Ford cars; but just because it is a good thing in the making of Ford cars, it is a bad thing in the making of human beings, for the reason […]