Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Well, we're here again. Four years ago after the 2008 debacle I wrote my piece The Party’s Over: A Post-Election Reflection, and that's as good of a point as any to start from. It’s fair to say that the Republican Party is history as a national party in the U.S. Oh, it’s true that it …
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For students of Latin American history, the serious question: President Obama’s response to the Great Recession and then a pallid recovery has been guided more by “fairness,” a thinly veiled code for redistribution, than by free-market principles. As it stands now, the top 1 percent of Americans generate 16 percent of the nation’s income but …
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When they're a)Mormon and b)in American politics: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a response to Mitt Romney’s claim that he will “reach across the aisle” to work with Democrats in Congress, if he becomes president: Don’t bet on it. “Mitt Romney’s fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his 'severely conservative' …
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And Vladimir, too: Recently journalists from The Guardian newspaper reported an important change during stays in Pyongyang: two large portraits of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin - long a prominent feature of Pyongyang's central Kim Il-sung square - were nowhere to be seen. Instead, the images have been replaced by a more dominating portrait of …
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Under the guise of "democracy", we're setting ourselves up for trouble: Americans have fought at home and on many a distant shore with resolve in truths that they hold to be self-evident, "that all men are created equal". Under the Barack Obama administration, America appears to have abandoned this principle through its recent engagement policy …
It's the home stretch for our election season. This is a "make or break" election in many ways. It will both define and set the course for the kind of country we are and kind of people we are. And it's been competitive. As I discussed in the last post but one, it's also been …
Our hopelessly biased media brings up the subject of Mitt Romney's Mormonism on a regular basis. One way they can do this while not attracting attention to themselves is to go out and interview Evangelicals on why they're struggling with voting for a Mormon. This is a clever diversion that, while bringing up an interesting …
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The campaigns' and Super PACS' junk mail has injected cash into our strapped postal system: The 2012 election season couldn't have come at a better time for the U.S. Postal Service. While still low on cash, the postal service has enough to avoid insolvency this month, thanks in large part to the mountains of political …
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Works even for a "place" like WikiLeaks: But leading Anonymous accounts on Twitter...have now withdrawn their support (of WikiLeaks)...Calling the split “the end of an era”, Anonymous tweeted: “It was an awesome idea, ruined by egos.” I've commented on the adverse effect of "egos inflatable to any size" ruining efforts in the church, especially with …
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The state that almost invented auto mobile living grinds to a halt: Gas prices shot up nearly 13 cents in some areas overnight Saturday, fueled by what's being called "a perfect storm of factors" that drove inventories across California to near-record lows. The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in L.A. County was …
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