Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Take a look at the interesting graph on the right that appears in Chan Akya's article on why European countries want to ban the burqa and the US is in no hurry to do so. I have a few observations about this: It's ironic that France, where a larger proportion of Muslims consider themselves a …
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There will be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth over this one: Conceding they can't find enough votes for the measure, Senate Democrats on Thursday abandoned efforts to put together a comprehensive energy bill that would seek to limit greenhouse gas emissions, delivering a potentially fatal blow to a proposal Democrats have long …
Continue reading "The Democrats Don't Need the Climate Bill to Achieve Their Objectives"
As the New York Times observes, in the digital world it's the end of forgetting, and in the midst of this Jeffrey Rosen draws from the Jewish world: In addition to exposing less for the Web to forget, it might be helpful for us to explore new ways of living in a world that is …
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A welcome endorsement in a race (TN-3) where the perception has gone with the big mouths: Candidate Art Rhodes, of Cleveland, the CEO of a pension plan with $250 million in assets, also wants to control “runaway spending,” but he has a far better sense of how to grapple with the issue and how it …
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He couldn't resist the dig for the artwork being used for the Pope's upcoming visit to the UK: I swear, the Catholic Church in this country is incapable of designing anything that doesn’t feature Pentecostal flames that look as if they’ve been copied from a 30-year-old album cover. I’m sure the Holy Father will be …
Continue reading "Note to Damian Thompson: Lay Off the Old Album Covers"
It's amazing, but some places are allowing their paved roads to revert to gravel ones: Paved roads, historical emblems of American achievement, are being torn up across rural America and replaced with gravel or other rough surfaces as counties struggle with tight budgets and dwindling state and federal revenue. State money for local roads was …
And he'll sue to stop it, too: Donald Trump is going after the county over its operation of Palm Beach International Airport and any expansion of the airport, which is located less than 3 miles west of the Mar-a-Lago Club. The suit also names airport director Bruce Pelly. The 68-page document, filed Monday, claims jets …
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This from, of all places, the New York Times, and Ross Douthat: Last year, two Princeton sociologists, Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford, published a book-length study of admissions and affirmative action at eight highly selective colleges and universities. Unsurprisingly, they found that the admissions process seemed to favor black and Hispanic applicants, while whites …
Continue reading "Poor White People and Élite Universities: Beating the Dog in the Water"
Well, it has been since 2008, but Janet Daley at the Telegraph has a Brit's "déjà vu all over again" feeling about it: What is more startling is the growth in America of precisely the sort of political alignment which we have known for many years in Britain: an electoral alliance of the educated, self-consciously …
Continue reading "It's Official: We're an Elitist Snob Country Now"
As many of you know, for me, in one sense, this is it: at the end of August, I will be leaving as Ministries Coordinator of the Church of God Department of Laity Ministries. Next week is our General Assembly in Orlando, in many ways the place where I will make my parting "social." As …
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