Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Ever since World War II, most Americans have taken for granted that we should have a strong military establishment befitting a world power. That wasn’t always the case; in fact, it took some serious reality checks to convince a critical mass of the American body politic that any substantial military establishment was even necessary. In …
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That peacenik, Colman McCarthy of the Washington Post, laments the thought that ROTC will return to the Ivy League: Now that asking and telling has ceased to be problematic in military circles, ROTC has resurfaced as a national issue: Will universities such as Harvard, Yale and other Ivy League schools be opened to Reserve Officers' …
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Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie is hopping mad at the "birthers" re Barack Obama's birth certificate: Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie said Friday the "dark side" is responsible for accusations Barack Obama is not or should not be president because he was not born in the United States. As governor Abercrombie is optimistic he will be able …
But the Washington Post and others had to get out the brown pants after seeing it: Television evangelist Pat Robertson has made inflammatory remarks in recent years that offend gays, Muslims and others, but a recent comment he made on his Christian Broadcasting Network was more notable for whom it pleased: people who want to …
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As a follow-up (of sorts) to my post two years ago entitled Applying the Ivy League Test to the Republican Stars (Such as They Are), let's look at this again, this time using the National Journal's chart. Although the NJ's emphasis is on managerial vs. populist candidates, the educational pedigree of each can easily be …
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The recent vandalism of Glastonbury's Holy Thorn Tree at Christmastime has got me thinking about some strange connections which seem to be manifesting themselves. We always like to think that we know how things work, but that isn't always the case. And, as anyone involved in science and technology will tell you, sometimes recognising the …
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Albert Mohler comments on the upending of the whole trend line of class vs. personal morality: For most of the last century, we have been concerned about the alienation of the cultural and intellectual elites from the institution of marriage. Starting at least as far back as the 1920s, the most highly educated Americans moved …
That's the way I interpret this (advance to about 6:30 in the video): http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnplayer/cbnPlayer.swf?s=/archive/club/700club120610_WS Sooner or later there's going to be a fracas on the right when enough people realise that those of us who support the abolition of civil marriage are at odds with those who are "defending" it, but until then... Interesting to …
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Kennedy's niece certainly thinks so: Palin fails to understand the genius of our nation. The United States is one of the most vibrant religious countries on Earth precisely because of its religious freedom. When power and faith are entwined, faith loses. Power tends to obfuscate, corrupt and focus on temporal rather than eternal purposes. Somehow …
In the middle of an excellent piece on the city of Philadelphia's horror at a "Christmas Village," Christine Flowers takes an informal poll and finds the following: As an immigration attorney, I deal with a lot of non-Christians, and I wanted to see if the ones I knew were upset at the Christmas display. They …
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