The Bowyer Briefing

I guest hosted on Cornerstone TV Network this week. We discussed the Ground Zero Mosque and put it into historical context.

http://www.ctvn.org/mediaplayer/Focus4/FS083110.asp

Will be on American Family Radio today at 5:15 with my buddy Crane Durham

Inernational regulators argue that new international banking regs will only cut econ growth a little. Now, don’t you feel better. Inflation impact of this may be positive, as a 4 year phase-in of higher capital cushions may end cash hoarding.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0d54e652-ab01-11df-9e6b-00144feabdc0.html

Much has been said about classical economics, but little has been said about the traditional intellectual roots of asset valuation. Fiancial accounting was in origin a subdivision of moral theology, and grounded in a classical/Christian world-view. When it lost those foundations, it started to tumble. Bernstein, has a lot to say about those foundation. Some in this book, but more in his Against The Gods.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0029030129/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp

Cromwell and his puritan ’roundheads’ may have done more for freedom than all of the liberal intellectual heroes combined. They did public policy with the Bibles open, and placed the world’s first firm limits on the monarchy. They destroyed once and for all the myth of the divine rights of kings. They established the ‘ancient rights of Englishman’ to which our own founders appealed in the centry after.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000B1A58/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp

Long before Hitler, young Winston took on the Mahdi, a self-procalimed Muslim messiah. Churchill, a working solder and war correspondent reveals how the Brits beat the dervishses. Don’t miss Churchills discussion of ‘prophecy vs. prudence’

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786707518/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp

We live in an age of moral and cultural confusion. One way that I’ve dealt with that is to try to spend time every day in the company of the wisest men and women who have ever lived. Over the next few weeks, I’d like to introduce you to some of them. Please let me know what you think.

The cult of church relevance, is the most irreleveant thing in our culture

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111704575355311122648100.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook#printMode

It’s not just the ‘charitable’ universities, for profits are in bubble territory too, and perhaps starting to pop.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703908704575433232470687928.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook

We need some system/network/mechanism to bring these good films to Pittsburgh

http://www.thisisforneda.com/