Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
John Fund's piece on the efforts by some House Democrats to force organisations like the Salvation Army to hire people who can't speak English (or won't do so all the time on the job) is a good reason why I have lost faith in the whole "anti-discrimination" portion of our laws. Having run a business, …
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The declining share of low and moderate income workers in the American pie is undeniable; the relative share of such workers peaked as long ago as 1973. For those with only high school qualifications or less, their absolute earnings peaked in 1973 and have declined substantially since then. From 1973 to 1995, this appeared to …
Ever since I wrote my first piece on The Golden Compass, I've noticed an uptick in interest in this site from secularists and atheists. Now Black Sun adds his idea to my piece Sonny Perdue Prays for Rain. Why Not? Maybe you could help yourselves out of your own human-created mess instead of a pathetic …
Secularists can laugh all they want as Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue prays for rain amid drought, but it doesn't change the fact that the other higher powers involved haven't come through for the state in general and Atlanta in particular. The Feds are too scared that certain species will be harmed to slow the flow …
Barack Obama says that Hillary Clinton and ’60’s Era Boomers Can’t Lead Change. He's right. I commented on this problem at the first of the year. But I'm not convinced that a Soros-backed candiate is going to do much better. Or, if he does "better," he does it at the expense of freedom.
Anyone who thinks that evangelicals are rigid stand-patters are probably picking themselves off of the floor at the news that Pat Robertson has endorsed Rudy Giuliani for the Republican Presidential nomination. It's something I discussed back in February, and my guess is that Pat went through some of the same thought processes as well. Although …
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It's obvious that Sen. Charles Grassley has too much time on his hands, as he asks six ministries to turn over financial records within one month. The "Religious Right" is is political disarray these days. As a Republican (RINO?) Grassley ought to know that. They're certainly not the force to be reckoned with they were …
The announcement that the Fed Cuts Interest Rate by Quarter Point is another nail in the coffin of dollar hegemony. Dollar hegemony, for those of you who aren't familiar with the term, is the phenomenon whereby the status of the dollar as the world's premier reserve currency affords the greenback "privileges" that other currencies lack. …
Charles Rangel is proposing the "Mother of All Tax Reforms." But he may not know the origin of the phrase he's using to describe it. It's obviously a takeoff of Saddam Hussein's "Mother of All Battles" description of what turned out to be (for him) the rout of the first Gulf War. In a place …
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The news report put out by the Carolina Week staff (video below) and the attempt by John Edwards' campaign to get it pulled shows the dilemma that every candidate that runs on the left has in dealing with the "contradictions" (as Mao Dun would put it) in advancing their cause. Conventional wisdom would have us …
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