Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
In the middle of a victory for conscience, this: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that certain "closely held" for-profit businesses can cite religious objections in order to opt out of a requirement in ObamaCare to provide free contraceptive coverage for their employees. The whole business of closely held corporations has been lost in the predictable …
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The left tries to have a little fun with this issue: In a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry stressed the importance of forming a unity government in Iraq but refused to commit to a timetable for creating one in the United States. Taking this in, al-Maliki …
I was surprised that the groups referenced even had to ask Eric Holder to do this: This week, 90 religious, educational, civil rights, labor, LGBT, women’s, and health groups signed a joint letter (full text) to Attorney General Eric Holder asking that the Office of Legal Counsel withdraw the Bush Administration's June 29, 2007 memo allowing faith-based organization …
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In the moderate panic (are people who are really moderates supposed to panic? isn't that for emotionalist extremists? ) this is easy to overlook about Dave Brat, the Roman Catholic economic professor who upset Eric Cantor in the Republican primary for his U.S. House seat: Brat, who is Catholic, got his masters from Princeton Theological …
And they may find it, too: Russian companies are preparing to switch contracts to renminbi and other Asian currencies amid fears that western sanctions may freeze them out of the US dollar market, according to two top bankers. "Over the last few weeks there has been a significant interest in the market from large Russian …
Today, of course, is the seventieth day of the Allied invasion of Normandy. We will be regaled with films of American soldiers under fire as they hit the beach. Just about all of those films will, by necessity, come from one beach--Omaha. So what about the rest of the Allied forces that participated in the …
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Hasn't gone away: But in fact, as people have turned away from the religious framework, they have not jettisoned that interior certitude, that feeling of absolute confidence that used to be associated only with religious doctrine and belief. When people stop believing in God, they quickly find surrogate beliefs, construct surrogate values, and embrace a …
The world's largest democracy has swept Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into power, and they're trying to figure out what he's going to do to change India: The new composition of parliament is significant, as are a number of other factoids about this election. The BJP has returned at least 279 seats in the …
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Those diversity people are at it again, this time at The Place Where Future Presidents go: The administration at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has agreed to work with a student group to implement a “mandatory power and privilege training” as part of its orientation, according to several reports by the group. “We have exciting …
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Getting the boot as a commencement speaker is becoming quite fashionable these days: The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday joined an élite group—those whose plans to give commencement addresses this graduation season were derailed by student or faculty protests. Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, was scheduled to speak this coming …
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