Once again, he reasserted the age-old doctrine of fiscal rectitude.
But perhaps most important change this week has been the ending of the intelligence agencies' age-old doctrine of "neither confirm, nor deny" when it comes to their work and capabilities.
Did the Roberts Five care that they were ignoring the age-old doctrine of corporate separateness in the Hobby Lobby case?
But they generally respected the age-old Shiite doctrine that clerics should keep their distance from politics.
What is nonetheless clear is that a strong far right movement has re-emerged, and what unites it is the age-old American doctrine of nativism, born out of fear of some dark outsider sneaking in to steal the white man's homeland and his hegemony.
Hinduism is like that: Gandhi's ideals are considered just as Hindu as age-old scriptural doctrines.
As Vice President Dick Cheney put it, "old doctrines of security do not apply".
Were we bearing witness to a clash between new and old doctrines?
