Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
It's the only logical conclusion: Obama needled one questioner who asked about gas prices, now averaging close to $3.70 a gallon nationwide, and suggested that the gentleman consider getting rid of his gas-guzzling vehicle. “If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly. …
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Retired Indian diplomat M K Bhadrakumar makes an important point in the midst of the idiotic blather over this tragedy: Following the Friday Prayer, a crowd that was leaving the famous Blue Mosque found another set of religious leaders in a Toyota Corolla fitted out with loudspeakers urging people to join them at the burning …
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It's set forth in detail by Syed Saleem Shahzad, perhaps the most knowledgeable correspondent of Islamicist groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan: International Islamic militancy that had its roots in the decade-long war against the Soviets in the 1980s was broadly divided into two main schools of thought; both considered themselves righteous despite embodying contradictory themes. …
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As I had predicted earlier, we now have this: Apple has pulled the Exodus International app from their iTunes App Store. Recently, Jeff Buchanan, Exodus International’s Senior Director of Church Equipping & Student Ministries, told The Christian Post, “In no way shape or form is our message about trying to cure or do we try …
Meet the Press host David Gregory lays it out for Palm Beachers at the Colony: The United Nations-sanctioned military action against Libya is dangerous because no one knows what will happen there if the rebels gain the upper hand, television journalist David Gregory told a Palm Beach audience on Monday. There also is the threat …
Another day, another "hate group": Gay activists are targeting another Christian ministry's iPhone application. Change.org wants the app for Exodus International discontinued. Exodus is a Christian ministry that helps Christians who struggle with homosexuality. Homosexual activists also are targeting the Exodus app's ratings, which sometimes are critical in helping an iPhone owner determine whether to …
Although it bodes ill for our future, the following from Michael Pento is as succinct summary of our Fed's recent actions as one could want: It now appears that the United States has finally succeeded in its efforts to destroy confidence in the US dollar. Given the currency's reserve status, its ubiquity in financial markets, …
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In view of the massive demonstrations in America's Heartland, and especially Michelle Rhee's CNN article about breaking the iron grip of seniority on teacher hiring and retention, I'd like to repost this 2006 piece (which I wrote while on a superintendent search committee) on the role of the trade union in public education. No discussion …
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Last week I posted a piece on why it's important not to get too trimphalistic on the French rejection of same sex civil marriage. That brought a long series of comments from "MichaelPS" who is obviously very familiar with French jurisprudence on this subject. One of his observations was as follows: It is significant that, …
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After yesterday's boffo performance by James Clapper and Leon Panetta, conservatives are justifiably upset at our intelligence community. But there's nothing new about this, as this wrap on the CIA's (in particular) uninspiring performance in the Cold War, from Derek Leebaert’s The Fifty Year Wound: The True Price of America’s Cold War Victory should remind …
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