Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I was amused when Sunny Lee made the following statement about South Korea's most Christian president, Lee Myung-bak: South Korea's Sunshine policy towards the North has been in a virtual coma for the two months since the inauguration of conservative Lee Myung-bak asof the South. Lee wants to act tough and teach Pyongyang a lesson …
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The news that Yoko Ono et. al. have filed suit to enjoin Ben Stein's movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (documented here and here) is a battle fought on two levels. First: Ben Stein is obviously attacking the ideological content of the song, and by extension not only those who agree with it but also those …
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The Gulf states' trend towards floating their own currencies relative to the U.S. dollar is a major step downward for the U.S.: On Thursday (May 1), the finance minister of Kuwait, Mustafa al-Shiwali, suggested that Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries were considering an idea to abandon their long-standing US dollar pegs. This is a minor …
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It's probably more interesting to readers of my other sites vulcanhammer.net and vulcanhammer.info, but this is a welcome to the blogosphere for Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters' blog The Fast Lane. Above: Secretary Peters on a Harley.
My church has a humourist who does an "Inflatable Campmeeting" routine, where he features a blow-up campmeeting with an inflatable campground, organ, pulpit, etc. But no campmeeting is complete without general and state church officials, so they're inflatable too. For good measure, he throws in an additional remark about the officials: "egos inflatable to any …
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Staying ahead of Dick Morris isn't easy, but it's doable. On the subject of Hillary Clinton's real intention of staying in the race: From my piece a month ago Hillary Clinton has Nothing to Lose by Ploughing On: Hillary has no good reason to quit. If she wins the nomination, she has a shot at …
Quark founder Tim Gill is making quite a splash, funding in a big way state legislative candidates who support same-sex civil marriage. This was reported on the 700 Club a couple of days ago, and; you can see the video by clicking here. Gill tells us he wants equality. That should constitute progress. I've dealt …
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I've been pilloried for having doubts about Obama's patriotism, but evidently Peggy Noonan has hers too: Main thought. Hillary Clinton is not Barack Obama's problem. America is Mr. Obama's problem. He has been tagged as a snooty lefty, as the glamorous, ambivalent candidate from Men's Vogue, the candidate who loves America because of the great …
Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore connects the dots at last: Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power - a concept tied closely to the underground nuclear testing his former environmental group formed to oppose. The …
Brazil is once again taking the lead as a source for oil: Brazil's state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro SA in November said the offshore Tupi field may hold 8 billion barrels of recoverable crude. Among discoveries in the past 30 years, only the 15-billion-barrel Kashagan field in Kazakhstan is larger. Haroldo Lima, director of the country's oil …
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