ex cathedra: Men of vision

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Men of vision

I am an introverted intuitive thinker and so I am always looking for the Great Ideas that explain all the little things around me. I read Thomas Sowell's work on the constrained and unconstrained vision some years ago and it rang true. Bill Whittle gives a quickie version.

If you want to know why I am a conservative and not a liberal, a simple answer is the American Revolution vs the French Revolution, George Washington and company --warts and all-- vs Robespierre and his rivers of guilloutined blood.

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