Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Today is the sixth anniversary of the 11 September attack, and this time it's on the same day of the week (Tuesday) as the 2001 original. I've spent a lot of time on this site on the subject of the Middle East, from the 2001 piece When the Sheep Have Anthrax onwards. There's one thing …
Continue reading "The Tricky Part of 9/11 and the Middle East"
George Barna's recent surveys show two things: The future of children is Americans' greatest general concern. The effect of peer pressure is the greatest specific concern surrounding their future. It should be. As readers of this blog are aware, I contend that peer pressure has the rule of law in this society, and this starts …
It seems that everyone now is commenting on the high emigration rate of the United Kingdom; the now the Aussies are making this a feature at Winds of change create a very different Britain. It's something that this blog has looked at (here and here.) There's no surprise that wealth is driving it. But, as …
"Spengler's" piece about Western grasshoppers and Chinese ants points out one of the sad facts of U.S. economic policy: its willingness to endure long-term trade deficits without allowing those who accumulate the dollars to invest them in U.S. equities. A couple of years ago CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Corporation) made a bid for Unocal. …
The sudden "revelation" by the California Governor and Attorney General, who say marriage can be eliminated in the future is only news to those who have not thought the issue out very carefully. Before Christians in California go off and begin a quest for a constitutional amendment, they need to think about a few things. …
Continue reading "A Show Stopper for Everyone in the Marriage Debate"
In CIA: The perils of being a good citizen, Dmitry Shlapentokh tells us why we missed the coming of 9/11: It also means that naive folks who look for "truth" and "efficiency" usually do not exist in real life. They are mostly characters from Hollywood movies where the good guys finally triumph over the bad …
The resignation of Alberto Gonzales is sad, but could have been avoided if Gonzales had taken more of a "Clintonesque" approach with the U.S. Attorneys firing. U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President and the Attorney General. There's no reason why Gonzales needed to go through a long justification of their termination. The …
Continue reading "Perhaps the Smashmouth Approach Would Have Been Best"
The truth is that Romney's abortion stance was a muddle to start with, and this only makes things worse. In all fairness, however, there are two "conservative" takes on the abortion issue from a legal standpoint. The first is that the issue should have never been federalised to start with. Had Roe v. Wade never …
One thing that has always bothered me about the U.S. is the broad-based ignorance about the real workings of foreign politics and societies. The existence of this was confirmed in no uncertain terms in the a recent Harris Poll that revealed that Americans' ignorance of their own affairs is bad enough, but that their ignorance …
Continue reading "The Pseudosophisticates That Run the Pseudodemocracy"
About three weeks ago, I posted The Saudis and Their Dangerous Game, where I discussed the whole business of a nation that, while propagating very tough Wahhabbi-Salafi Islam, they were then forced to deal with those who took is more seriously than they did. This piece had enough merit to be cited in Slate. Part …
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