Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
He poses the problem: "Let's be honest, most of the discrimination ... has come at the hands of religious people, and the greatest single hindrance to the achievement of full civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people can be laid at the doorstep of the three Abrahamic faiths: Christianity, Judaism and Islam," Robinson …
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Today's Holy Week podcast exploration looks forward to Good Friday. It's the Kairosingers' Cross of Shame, from their album Of One Accord.
Or at least that's what University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos thinks: Decisions such as the Iowa Supreme Court’s recent announcement that the state’s constitution requires the state to make same-sex monogamous marriage legal pose a practical dilemma for those of us who support gay marriage, but oppose the more egregious varieties of legal …
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In preparation for his "Palm Sunday entry" into Jerusalem, Our Lord did the following: “When they had almost reached Jerusalem, as far as Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent on two of his disciples. “Go to the village facing you,” he said; “and, as soon as you get there, you will …
Earlier I posted a quote from Charles Freeman on dollar hegemony. The source behind that is here, but he also touched on another interesting subject that no one is talking about: There's another issue that no one's paying any attention to, and that is the consequences of the erosion of the world order that we …
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From Charles Freeman, via John Ross Crooks, currency trader: “One [longer term strategic issue] is very apposite today, and that is the future of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency. At Bretton Woods, the dollar became the global reserve currency, backed by gold. A quarter century later, Nixon eliminated the gold backing for our …
The Elitist Snob discovers that the Europeans aren't on the same wavelength as he is: While President Nicolas Sarkozy of France did not repeat an earlier threat to walk out of the conference - "I just got here," he joked - he made it clear he would reject an agreement that puts off stringent new …
They used to say that in the old Soviet Union about the end result of this: But now, in a little-noticed move, the House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, has approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill. The new …
One of the most popular features of this site are the More Than Dreams videos, from the Muslim world. We now offer them in Flash format, the same technology that YouTube uses. Unfortunately, YouTube limits the video length to ten minutes, and these are considerably longer than that. Check them out.
The New York Times is worried: "There are absolutely historical precedents for what is happening with Beck," said Tom Rosenstiel, the director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism. "There was a lot of radio evangelism during the Depression. People were frustrated and frightened. There are a lot of scary parallels now." The conservative writer …
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