Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
It is heartening when someone, somewhere--and especially an academic like Bradford Wilcox at a respected institution (in this case the University of Virginia)--finally grasps what liberals cannot in his article Preaching to the Choir, namely that much of evangelicals' political involvement is defensive rather than offensive. This is something I have been repeating since Public …
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Eighty years ago, Mao Zedong predicted the following: For the present upsurge of the peasant movement is a colossal event. In a very short time, in China's central, southern and northern provinces, several hundred million peasants will rise like a mighty storm, like a hurricane, a force so swift and violent that no power, however …
One thing has always bothered me about Mitt Romney is this: how can a Temple Mormon, given the central role of children in Mormon theology, be or ever have been pro-choice? The following is Mitt Romney's own answer.
The collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis last Wednesday has focused our attention on the subject of the transportation infrastructure in the U.S. The real tragedy is that it takes incidents like this to do that. The American Society of Civil Engineers routinely puts out its Infrastructure Report Card on the state of the …
The decision by the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, to stick with a 3% across the board pay increase for city employees as opposed to a $1.00/hour one was a sensible one. But it brings up an issue common in labour relations, namely that of wage compression. A quick summary of the facts: the Mayor had …
It's little wonder that U.S. Officials Voice Frustrations With Saudis’ Role in Iraq. The wonder is that they haven't sooner. Saudi Arabia is trying to do two things at once: Spread Wahhabi/Salafi Islam throughout the Muslim world through a well-financed system of patronage (mosques, imams, etc.) Salafism attempts to return Islam to the faith and …
In thinking about the recent poll Russian youth: Stalin good, migrants must go, one is reminded of the following concerning another brutal Russian tyrant, Ivan the Terrible: By the 1580's Russian society had assumed the essential shape it was to retain until 1861; despite war and revolution vestiges of it have survived until today. During …
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The lesson of the Ward Churchill saga Ward Churchill Saga is simple: if you want real ethnic diversity and the viewpoints that come with it, hire someone with real non-white background. Living in "Cherokee Country," the University of Colorado would have had a better shot at this if they had walked into just about any …
Lydia Playfoot's loss of her legal action to wear a chastity ring brings to mind two previous posts: Liberals and Sex Go Together (her opponents) What They Really Don’t Like is the Chastity. Don’t Like the Free Speech Either. (previous direct comment on the subject) But it also brings up something else, this time from …
The Boston Globe's report that poverty is the key theme for Democrats is a combination of wishful thinking and a blind faith in the success of past programs. The thinking is wishful for one simple reason: the Democrat party is largely controlled by elites who have no concept of what poverty means or how to …
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