Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
You know you're in trouble when Abraham Foxman of the ADL goes after you on something like this: Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen apologized for remarks that linked Republican attacks on President Obama's health care law to Nazi propaganda, saying he didn't intend to offend anyone. "I want to be clear that I never called Republicans …
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Rich Jaroslovsky's assessment that Steve Jobs is another Edison or Ford is right: Lacking information about Jobs’s latest illness, questions have focused on what his absence will mean for Apple. How deep is the management team that will run things while he’s on medical leave? What will the impact be on a stock price that’s …
The significance of this isn't lost to those of us who have visited the Tian An Men Square: In a ritual equal only to that of the church, last week China placed a statue of Confucius in its political heart, Tiananmen Square, before Mao Zedong's portrait and near the modern obelisk to the People's Heroes, …
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With the Eastern blizzards moving out and the fracas over the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fading somewhat, our Congress gets back to its duty of legislating. High on its agenda is the repeal of Obama's health care law, which will doubtless be unsuccessful, as it will stall in the Senate and would suffer …
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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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