Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The American media's its usual uninformative self about geopolitical issues, but this video puts many things in a whole new light: https://youtu.be/rCBt4XgCX-0?si=-a6e7iUdUwhxrSP4 It makes perfect sense that the U.S. would want to secure its northern frontier against incursion by the...Russians and Chinese, those people who Trump's enemies have convinced themselves he has sold out to. …
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Sometimes the most interesting and profound of statements come from some of the unlikeliest places, and this is one of them: it was reprinted in the January 1919 edition of Crane Valve World, the periodical of the Crane Company, the Chicago based company that makes valves and other fittings for piping of air, steam, water …
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Teaching at Lee University has brought back memories of things I experienced there before even I was drawn into their fledgling engineering program. Now that we are on our way to a building for same with the woes of the present world for a background, there's something that has come back to mind that I …
The Catholic Church in the US is distressed about Trump's immigrant policies: Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, the USCCB president, said in a Wednesday statement that some provisions of Trump's executive actions, including those that affect immigrants and refugees, "are deeply troubling and will have negative consequences." To which Vance came back: "I think that the U.S. Conference …
The successor of the likes of John Chane takes her opportunity: President Donald Trump blasted Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, after she directed politically charged remarks towards him during an interfaith service of prayer for the country at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday, the day after Trump's inauguration. "Let me make …
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The wildfires in the Los Angeles area are terrifying, but that hasn't stopped people from blaming the victims. It also hasn't stopped speculation on how they started. Arson? Spontaneous combustion? Terrorism? We still don't know and, given the way everything has a political slant to it, may not know anytime soon. The reason why these--and …
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Trump's "proposal" to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" brings to mind many things. One of them is this chart, put out by our government in 1967, showing it as the "Gulf of Mexico" (which would be altered on things issued by the U.S. government if this came to pass): This was …
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Ever since his passing on Sunday, the media has lionised--and social media denigrated--Jimmy Carter. One statement in Al Mohler's piece on Carter caught my attention: Time does seem to mellow powerful memories—even powerful political memories. That is especially true when most Americans alive today were not yet born when Carter left the White House, overwhelmingly …
The United States is a misnomer. Despite its title, our republic has rarely been united, instead hosting an endless gladiatorial contest between different states and regions. 1,853 more words The Lone Star State is soaring
Imagine if Luigi Mangione had shot the CEO of a company that made light bulbs, or dishwashers, or breakfast cereal. Perhaps a few ideologues on Twitter would have hailed the killing as a justified strike against the one percent. 1,171 more words Why normies idolise Luigi Mangione
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