Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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 …
It's probably worth reminding everyone that, in advance of the current credit meltdown, the U.S. tightened its bankruptcy laws, as noted in the 2005 posting A recipe for social unrest.
Some may have thought the posting Maybe It's Time to Emigrate (concerning Lydia Playfoot and the chastity ring case) was a little extreme. But then again consider the Daily Express informing us that 4,000 people a week trying to leave UK. BRITAIN is facing a mass exodus of people looking to escape the crime and …
Those of you who follow "Spengler" on Asia Times Online are familiar with his argument coupling the birthrate with religious belief and the survival of a society. (An interesting correlation of this from an Episcopalian standpoint can be found here.) It looks like he's got some competition from the West Coast in the form of …
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 …
Continue reading "Evangelicals and Politics: Somebody Finally Gets It"
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 …
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