Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Alan Comes thought that Dick Morris had lost his mind when Morris stated that Bill and Hillary were running a race based campaign against Barack Obama (as Morris outlines below): If Hillary loses South Carolina and the defeat serves to demonstrate Obama’s ability to attract a bloc vote among black Democrats, the message will go …
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The estimate that it is mathematically impossible that anyone become the clear leader in their party's Presidential nomination race after Super Tuesday may or may not be right. In 2000, I can remember Dick Morris confidently predicting that it was impossible for the popular vote to go one way and the electoral vote to go …
A little while back I posted an excerpt from Fourth of July speech in Houma, Louisiana, in 1911, about “warm receptions.” That speech was just one of four given at that interesting occasion; another one was given by the Hon. Gabriel Montegut. After a lengthy dissertation about Louisiana history, Montegut launched into an interesting subject: …
Last year, when going back and forth with the combative Russell Earl Kelly, I made the following comment: When I look at Dr. Kelly’s website and admire the long list of Christian preachers he refutes, a line from the "John Boy and Billy Show" comes to mind: "We like a good fight down here." That’s …
The hue and cry by the GLBT community's leadership to eject Dr. Joel Edwards from the UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission is all too predictable. The secularists have already whined about his presence on the Commission. But the complaining is based on a simple concept: if you don't embrace our agenda, we don't want …
Roger Cohen has hit upon an most important issue for American presidents, both the one we have and the one we're trying to elect: A weak dollar, outsized personal debt, a massive current account deficit, cash-strapped banks and Asian governments purchasing U.S. Treasury bonds to finance the national debt are not signs of American strength. …
Dick Morris' reminder of the support from foreign sources that the Clintons have received over the years isn't particularly earthshaking. It isn't really news; their dealings with the Chinese were well known when they occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It doesn't paint a pretty picture of the role of foreign influence in another Clinton administration. The …
I'm getting to the point where I find articles like Joe Conason's "Mike Huckabee, the Constitution and Biblical Law" more amusing than a source of anger. His ultimate objective, of course, is to show that Mike Huckabee is a dangerous theonomist who would impose a theocracy if elected President. Such fear is based on the …
It's not too often that I make an engineering commentary on this site, but the characterisation of the NTSB's conclusion that a design flaw was the "critical factor" in the I-35 bridge failure in Minneapolis, MN, strikes me as a little misleading. (The NTSB's own announcement is here.) In its interim report, the FHWA went …
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The flap over Hillary Clinton's remarks about the role of Dr. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement can be seen as a tempest in a teapot, as so many discussions of race in this country are. But her idea that it was Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Bill in 1964 speaks …
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