Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The Church Mouse blog (I think this name is hilarious, considering this) reports the following: Since then, the folk behind the (Manhattan D)eclaration thought it would be a good idea to create an iPhone app which allows users to read and sign the declaration, and share it with others. The app was duly created and …
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With all of the trumpeting of the benefits of the Wikileaks revelations and how wonderful it is to get them out in the open, it's a good idea to take a trip down memory lane and look a previous time when secrecy was at least denounced, if not exposed. That time, of course, was before …
Back in 2006, I stated the following: Last year we stated that Iran’s greater objective than wiping Israel off of the map was to take control of both sides of the Persian Gulf, which would include Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the other Gulf states. Such an assesment was and is a minority view, …
It's not surprising that the Guardian has trumpeted the result of the Munk Debate in Toronto as Hitchens 1 Blair 0. (For a more reasonable take on the debate, one should turn to His Grace.) The results of the polls aren't surprising either; Hitchens went into the debate with a lead amongst those polled, and …
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I first saw this story on Politico, but when Rubin on Tax took it up I knew it was serious: According to pleadings filed in a civil action, Z Street is a nonprofit organization which educates the public about Zionism, and about the State of Israel and its battle with terror. As a nonprofit educational …
It took long enough: Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said support for corn-based ethanol in the United States was "not a good policy", weeks before tax credits are up for renewal. U.S. blending tax breaks for ethanol make it profitable for refiners to use the fuel even when it is more expensive than gasoline. The …
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David Cole at the New York Review of Books (along with many other on the left) would like to see some prosecutions: In the face of overwhelming evidence that numerous US detainees were tortured during the Bush years, President Barack Obama has famously said he wants to “look forward, not back.” He prohibited the use …
It sure doesn't look like it: Now that a new government has finally formed, it is time for Maliki to switch his focus from trying to remain prime minister to fulfilling his duty as head of state to protect the most vulnerable among his population. But let’s be honest—without enormous pressure from his backers in …
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As if the flap over full body scans--physical and otherwise--wasn't enough, the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) is about to have elections for union representation: The Federal Labor Relations Authority on Friday accepted a petition from the American Federation of Government Employees and the National Treasury Employees Union to hold an election to determine which group …
To some, it looks that way: Winston Churchill may have been right about democracy’s being the worst form of government except for all the others, but he probably wouldn’t have guessed that the bar would fall so low. In his sweeping review of contemporary moral and political life, Kenneth Minogue contends that, as currently practised, …
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