Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
This, from Sarah Palin's speech earlier this evening at the Republican National Convention: Senator McCain's record of actual achievement and reform helps explain why so many special interests, lobbyists, and comfortable committee chairmen in Congress have fought the prospect of a McCain presidency - from the primary election of 2000 to this very day. Our …
Continue reading "The Republicans Stampede Away from George W. Bush–at the Convention"
I originally published this piece 31 July 2005. I'm putting it up again because a) it's Labour Day weekend, and b) the political season is finally becoming a conscious reality for most Americans. It's a repeated warning about over-reliance on state institutions to advance an agenda of any kind. Since that time the Democrats have …
Continue reading "Blast From the Past: On Trade Unions and Churches"
In the last part of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, one of the most important victories that took place before the Ring was killing the Nazgul Lord. It had been prophesied that he could not be killed by a man, so the deed was started by a hobbit (Merry) and finished off by …
Continue reading "Sarah Palin, and the Most Dangerous People on Earth"
Sometimes this man amazes me: Suppose, for example, you're a voter, and you have candidate X and you have candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything but you don't think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that, on the other half, …
Continue reading "Bill Clinton, Candidate X and Candidate Y"
Nancy Pelosi hasn't quite thought this through just yet: "I think that women, we have to get away from the politics of victim. This is about you go out there and you fight," she said. "I think that what Hillary Clinton did was tremendous for the country. She has kicked open many doors, which now …
Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his VP running mate may make good "policy wonk" sense (Biden is supposedly an ace with foreign policy) but strikes me as weak. (In fact, I found myself hard pressed to find anyone to be an Obama running mate who really struck me as being helpful to his …
Many people don't like big oil, but we're paying the price... Oil production has begun falling at all of the major Western oil companies, and they are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though they are awash in profits and eager to expand. Part of the reason is political. From the …
Continue reading "Declining Oil Supplies: When You’re Part of the Problem…"
The Russians are back in our news again. Our media is manic-depressive: it careens from supine pacifism to hyperventilating bellicosity, and these days the invasion of Georgia is inspiring the latter. Our government isn't much better: it can't seem to know whether to send the troops, send the diplomats, or just hide. I have a …
This from George Barna: George Barna, who has managed various political campaigns and been involved in polling for many candidates, directed the study. He believes the faith community may yet emerge as the deciding factor in what many analysts consider to be a certain victory for Barack Obama. "It is unusual to see such significant …
Continue reading "The Reality of an Obama Presidency Sinks In"
Spengler was widely trashed for his article Obama's Women Reveal his Secret back in February (as was I for agreeing with it.) But compare this passage from a piece by David Brooks: Last week Jodi Kantor of The New York Times described Obama's 12 years at the University of Chicago Law School. "The young law …
Continue reading "Looking Smarter About Barack Obama Every Day"
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