Flotsam & Jetsam

Megan McArdle has been busy, but there is precious little wisdom to glean from her little jottings. Megan quotes Felix, Ross, Clive and Alex, as well as Robert, Terry, Hilzoy, and her dear friends Matt and Ezra. She discusses the big Democrat scandal at length, and generously permits everyone to speculate about the origins, history and effect of the scandal. She is not nearly so giving towards Wall Street scandals, but one must make allowances for class identification. Finally, there is also a remarkably unimaginative post on automobiles, that does not even consider the effects of possible wild swings in prices and periodic shortages, as well as alternate methods of transportation. Fortunately there are other bloggers who discuss these things; we go to McArdle for the gossip and slap-downs she loves to administer to her adversaries for prestige.

Shining like a diamond in the slop, however, is a precious post about Chuck Colson, whom she piously declares deserves credit for what he's done since being released from prison for Watergate crimes.

In his Christianity Today columns, for example, Colson has opposed same-sex marriage,[24] argued that Darwinism is used to attack Christianity,[25] and
claimed that the Enron accounting scandals were a consequence of secularism.[citation needed] He has also argued against Darwinism and in favor of intelligent design,[26] saying Darwinism helped cause forced sterilizations by eugenicists.[27]
Colson has been an outspoken critic of postmodernism, believing that, as a cultural worldview, it is incompatible with the Christian tradition. He has debated prominent Post-evangelicals, such as Brian McLaren, on the best response for the Evangelical church in dealing with the postmodern cultural shift.

In the early 1980s, Colson was invited to New York by David Frost's
variety program on NBC for an open debate with Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the famous atheist who, in 1963, brought the court case (Murray v. Curlett) that eliminated official public school prayers.[28] More recently, Colson has been a strong proponent of the Bible Literacy Project's curriculum The Bible and Its Influence for public high school literature courses.

In other words, he has spent his time since release trying to turn the US into a theocracy instead of a republic. He was given a second chance, and used it to continue his drive for power and control.

Someone who used to call herself Jane Gault Galt should be a little more careful about her alliances. People might begin to think she is authoritarian.