Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
With "election season" (which actually started with the end of the last one) officially upon us, we need to stop and consider the biggest mess the Republican Party finds itself in: the hard pushback against making abortion illegal in any stage of pregnancy. With the Dobbs decision, I'm sure that many in the pro-life movement …
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In the wake of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to suspend his campaign and endorse Donald Trump for President, his siblings issued the above statement. Evidently they in general and Chris Kennedy in particular have forgotten a few things. In 2010 Chris was involved in getting Bill Ayers denied emeritus status at the University of …
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Well, it's done now: https://www.youtube.com/live/9kPNOrwHOhQ?si=3ue3sb46L8bOHVq7&t=2956 His speech was one of the most interesting--if a little too lengthy--speeches of this campaign cycle. He hits our country's establishment on a number of fronts, especially the way his own party--the party of his uncles Jack and Teddy Kennedy and his father Bobby--relentlessly squeezed him out of the primary …
Remember Consignia — that disastrous rebrand of the Post Office? It sounded more like a sexually transmitted disease or an obscure Roman battle than … Why can’t the Church say ‘church’?
In 1988 my brother and I visited what was then the Soviet Union. Our intent was to sell them pile driving equipment for their offshore oil exploration, but before it was all over we acquired some valuable technology from them that has been useful both before and after my time in the family business. We …
At the beginning of Robert E. Quirk's The Mexican Revolution, 1914-1915: The Convention of Aguascalientes, he gives an overview of Mexico in the last years of Porfirio Diaz: In September 1910 Mexico celebrated the hundredth anniversary of Father Miguel Hidalgo's "Cry of Dolores" which launched the war of independence against Spain. It was a magnificent …
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In view of the disgusting opening ceremonies at the recent opening of the 2024 Olympics in Paris, it's worth reminded people that there are some--probably many--who have admired this work even if they're not sympathetic with its message. Two of those were Iranian friends of mine, which I talk about in my post The Last …
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I posted the appointments from the 2024 Church of God General Assembly a few days ago. Unfortunately it's harder to obtain the final results of the agenda items. This is sort of the hard way to get those but following is a video of the General Assembly portion of the 2024 General Assembly. https://youtu.be/wI0XRJfHSjY?si=kvYhknEUO9xMyKpD At …
It's official: President Biden made the unprecedented decision Sunday to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, less than four months after being declared the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee and just weeks after a dismal debate showing. Getting him out of the way--and that's what really happened--doesn't solve his party's basic problem, which I stated at the very start of …
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As we head into the final stretch of our Presidential election and we brace to hit the wall, an old prayer that may have seemed quaint back in the day has certainly made a comeback in relevance, in this case the Collect for Peace from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. You can see it …
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