Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Originally posted 23 June 2005. A few months ago I had lunch with the husband of a well-known Christian radio talk show hostess. As he is a lawyer, the Supreme Court's docket came up, and he brought up the case of Kelo vs. New London, where the Conneticut city wanted to take the property of …
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Originally posted 10 August 2005. The subject came up in the last VP debate. With all of the excitement coming out of Europe, the Middle East, and even Aruba, it's easy to forget an important change that could impact many Americans in the very near future. After years of lobbying and overcoming populist sentiment, the …
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Spengler has put his finger on something that the Elitist Snobs don't understand: What does America have that Asia doesn't have? The answer is, Sarah Palin - not Sarah Palin the vice presidential candidate, but Sarah Palin the "hockey mom" turned small-town mayor and reforming Alaska governor. All the PhDs and MBAs in the world …
I originally posted this 11 September 2005. It bears repeating in view of the current Wall Street mess. It's tempting to send some of these people to jail, but the rest will simply bail, and we won't necessarily be the better for it. Long ago, I attended a prep school in South Florida. Our Junior …
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Art Rhodes weighs in on this: As a quasi-political operative, I would have liked to have seen Palin give more detailed responses on some issues. However, the focus groups seemed to love her folksy, straight forward (although often illusory) responses. When she responded about the economy that Americans “are just not going to take the …
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This is a good reason to vote early: Could voting for president be hazardous to your health? An analysis of Election Day traffic deaths dating back to Jimmy Carter's 1976 win suggests yes, but the authors say that's no reason not to go to the polls. The study found that on average, 24 more people …
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With all the recent complaining I've had to deal with from James Alexander, now this, from a Masonic site: For instance in some states conservative Christian evangelicals have overtaken some Grand Lodges and written into their state Masonic code a Christianization of their state's Freemasonry. Freemasonry had previously gradually evolved into being religiously neutral and …
This week's installment of Mass Confusion is Praise and Thanks to Yahweh, from the Texas group the Kairosingers. It's not quite a responsorial psalm, but it's good. Since the Vatican has outlawed the use of the word "Yahweh" for the divine name, you might want to restrict this to Masses in very small settings, where …
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In my recent post replying to the fundamentalist-obsessed James Alexander, I said that "Since 9/11 they (European secularists) have become quite vocal, because they realise they face being overrun by same Muslims whom they don’t have the stomach to fight. So they attack the Christians once again, because they know the Christians won’t resort to …
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World Net Daily is just brimming with interesting stuff. First: it seems that the moderator for Thursday Night's Vice Presidential debate, Gwen Ifill, is planning to release a new book on Inauguration Day entitled The Breakthrough, which celerates an Obama victory. So much for an objective moderator... According to WND, "she argues the "black political …
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