Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Ruby Payne's work on effectively interfacing with and helping students from the lower income levels has brought the expected howls of indignation from her colleagues. But the truth is that this is the absolutely most explosive issue in the U.S. today, which is why no one wants to discuss it. Let's look at this from …
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For a long time historians have unfolded their narratives without worrying about setting up a chronological punctuation, without the need of pausing at a major stopping point. When the concept of medaevalism was imposed on general consciousness--it has only been a century--the dogma of evolution, of the continual and slow transformation of nature and of …
Back in the fall, I received an email from one of our visitors challenging my article Gay Marriage: What Marriage? and especially my statement that "it can be shown that the optimum home for children is one where there is a father and a mother." I referred him to a number of places on this …
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The whole Sojourners' discussion with Clinton, Obama and Edwards is a exercise in wishful thinking by both the Sojourners and the Democratic candidates. It's no secret that the Democrats' own base is very secular. It's also no secret that the Republicans' base tends to be religious. So the trick for these candidates is to sound …
The uncovered plot to blow up the jet fuel at the JFK Airport is being continuously reported on Fox News, as one would expect. However, their geography leaves a lot to be desired of. Leading up to the 1300 FBI news conference, one of those arrested was a member of the parliament of Guyana, which …
Evangelist Bill Keller's saying that voting for Mitt Romney is like voting for Satan should neither be taken seriously nor be the business of the Internal Revenue Service. I'd like to know: how many people has Keller trained to effectively share their Christian faith with a Mormon? How much does he really know about Mormonism? …
The news that Fred Thompson will announce his candidacy on 4 July is good news for Republican conservatives who have been looking for an alternative to a field that is either a) too liberal or b) too erratic and opportunistic. Rumours are cheap and plentiful in politics. The first indication that I saw that his …
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The whole fracas over the immigration "compromise" arrived at in the Senate centres around issues such as social justice, rule of law and the like, but the central issue is still the same and still simple: who's going to do the work? If the work cannot be done here economically, it will go elsewhere. If …
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All of us have probably felt at some time that we were unfairly punished by a callous teacher, or picked on and teased by boorish and uncaring bullies...Unfortunately, this is part of what teenagers endure in becoming adults... (the law) is simply too crude and imprecise an instrument to satisfactorily soothe deeply hurt feelings... Such …
The death of Jerry Falwell is doubtless bringing dancing and celebration in the bath houses and bars that liberals hang out in (to say nothing of the left-wing blogs.) For our part, we extend our condolences to his family, Liberty University and the Thomas Road Baptist Church. There is no question that Falwell's move into …
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