Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Yes, we all know that the White House "should" retract insurance industry threats: Everybody loves to hate health insurance companies. Who doesn't have their favourite story about arbitrarily denied claims and, especially these days, excessive premiums? So why would anyone care about their free-speech rights? You should, if you care about your own free-speech rights. …
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The operative word here is "were": Three staffers working for embattled Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) were asked by security officers to leave an event in downtown Washington on Thursday after they tried to display large campaign signs just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was about to speak. The aides were holding lawn signs that …
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Evidently Robert Gibbs isn't happy about the discovery either: Dinesh D'Souza has drawn a torrent of criticism with a Forbes cover story that accuses President Obama of adopting "the cause of anti-colonialism" from his Kenyan father. But while most detractors focus on the author--and Newt Gingrich, who embraced the critique--the White House is aiming its …
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The "man after God's own heart" started it all: David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was …
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For Publix, at the end of the quest, victory: The Town Council has granted Publix’s request for expanded construction hours so the supermarket chain can get its new store built as quickly as possible. Publix plans to demolish the existing store in April and build a larger one that is scheduled to open on Dec. …
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They're starting out to do just that: Communist Cuba will shift hundreds of thousands of state employees to the private sector in 2011 as the government prunes more than 500,000 workers from its payroll. The official trade union federation said on Monday that eventually more than a million jobs would be cut. “Job options will …
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The Town of Palm Beach is to be commended on passing a budget without a tax increase... The smaller budget is necessary because of a nearly 12 percent dip in taxable property values, which has reduced the town’s tax base, and because the council decided against increasing the property tax rate. But their cutback, laudatory …
This is the sixth in a sporadic series on the Catechetical Lectures of St. Cyril of Jerusalem. The last post was Touch not God’s Anointed. In the last instalment of the series, Cyril is quoted in saying that the newly baptised and chrismated believers were now the “images of Christ.” (XXI, 1) Concerning the image …
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That's what David Phipps of the Church Society tells us re John Henry Newman's conversion to Catholicism: No one can be a Catholic without a simple faith, that what the Church declares in God's name, is God's word, and therefore true. A man must simply believe that the Church is the oracle of God. When …
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This, I suppose, is the "9/11 commemorative piece" for today, but actually I first wrote it in 2005. It was a unique experience for my wife and I to attend the Arab Worldwide Evangelical Ministers Association (AWEMA) meeting at The Cove (Billy Graham's conference centre) in April 2003. It was the first time we had …
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