http://www.americanmanifesto.org An American Manifesto: Life After Liberalism en-us Copyright 2011 Christopher Chantrill 30 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:08:28 -0500 http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo447_the_greater_separation_of_powers.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo447_the_greater_separation_of_powers.html Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:18:08 -0500 Christopher Chantrill In the Federalist Papers 47, James Madison quotes the famous dictum of Montesquieu: When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body... ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo446_business_and_the_web_of_trust.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo446_business_and_the_web_of_trust.html Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:08:13 -0500 Christopher Chantrill I recently bought at my local supermarket some Pinata apples. Even though I'd never heard of them before I bought a couple for, as I told the checkout clerk, I trust Safeway. The clerk looked ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo444_the_bonds_of_faith.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo444_the_bonds_of_faith.html Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:01:09 -0500 Christopher Chantrill In our modern age we look back with a certain disdain upon the ways of the ancestors. We regard their ways as ignorant and their faith as superstition. This is nothing new. Plato ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo449_government_and_the_technology_of_power.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo449_government_and_the_technology_of_power.html Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Christopher Chantrill If you scratch a social reformer, you will likely discover a plan for more government. For the easiest way to imagine the future is one miraculously converted to your own vision: happy people ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo448_the_modern_conundrum.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo448_the_modern_conundrum.html Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Christopher Chantrill The modern state has enormous power. It possesses armed forces and police powers beyond the imaginings of kings and emperors. It taxes and spends a share of social production unimaginable a ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo445_the_crisis_of_the_administrative_state.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo445_the_crisis_of_the_administrative_state.html Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Christopher Chantrill It wasn't supposed to be like this. Huge government debt and financial instability were supposed to be problems confined to South American dictatorships. Idleness was a problem of unregulated ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo430_why_we_fight.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo430_why_we_fight.html Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:43:53 -0500 Christopher Chantrill November 2, 2010 will go down as the biggest repudiation of liberalism in our lifetime. As many as 80 Democrats may go down to defeat in the House of Representatives. But for what? None ... http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo417_a_new_manifesto.html http://www.www.americanmanifesto.org/aamo417_a_new_manifesto.html Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:45:46 -0500 Christopher Chantrill A spectre is haunted the liberal elite -- the spectre of conservatism. All the powers of the liberal establishment have entered into a secular alliance to exorcise this spectre: liberal left and ... http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2011/02/between-freedom-and-administration.html http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2011/02/between-freedom-and-administration.html Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Christopher Chantrill WHEN A CORPORATION declares bankruptcy, it is common to say that it is operating "under administrati... http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2011/02/beyond-blame.html http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2011/02/beyond-blame.html Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Christopher Chantrill IF WE WANT to understand who to blame for the current cock-up in government, it is easy: our liberal... http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2011/02/obamacare-and-bigger-question.html http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2011/02/obamacare-and-bigger-question.html Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Christopher Chantrill WHY DO LIBERALS believe that the only way to improve the delivery of health care is by more compulsi... http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2011/02/liberals-administering-prosperity.html http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2011/02/liberals-administering-prosperity.html Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Christopher Chantrill PRESIDENT OBAMA talked a Reaganesque line in his State of the Union speech about business and innova... http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2011/02/indictment.html http://americanmanifestobook.blogspot.com/2011/02/indictment.html Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Christopher Chantrill FOR THE LAST century and a half everyone has been whaling on the middle class--the bourgeoisie, the ...