Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
There's no reason to be shocked by this: Saudi King Abdullah and security czar Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz have held talks with top intelligence and counter-terror officials from the United States and Canada, the SPA news agency reported. John Brennan, assistant to US President Barack Obama for homeland security and counter-terrorism, discussed in Jeddah …
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The division between the Tea Party and "regular Republicans" is well publicised, but not so well understood is that between public trade unions and the "gentry" (I prefer limousine) liberals: My subject today is the civil war raging in one of our great political parties, as highlighted in recent primary elections. No, I'm not talking …
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Yes, we all know that the White House "should" retract insurance industry threats: Everybody loves to hate health insurance companies. Who doesn't have their favourite story about arbitrarily denied claims and, especially these days, excessive premiums? So why would anyone care about their free-speech rights? You should, if you care about your own free-speech rights. …
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The operative word here is "were": Three staffers working for embattled Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) were asked by security officers to leave an event in downtown Washington on Thursday after they tried to display large campaign signs just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was about to speak. The aides were holding lawn signs that …
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Evidently Robert Gibbs isn't happy about the discovery either: Dinesh D'Souza has drawn a torrent of criticism with a Forbes cover story that accuses President Obama of adopting "the cause of anti-colonialism" from his Kenyan father. But while most detractors focus on the author--and Newt Gingrich, who embraced the critique--the White House is aiming its …
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The "man after God's own heart" started it all: David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was …
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They're starting out to do just that: Communist Cuba will shift hundreds of thousands of state employees to the private sector in 2011 as the government prunes more than 500,000 workers from its payroll. The official trade union federation said on Monday that eventually more than a million jobs would be cut. “Job options will …
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This, I suppose, is the "9/11 commemorative piece" for today, but actually I first wrote it in 2005. It was a unique experience for my wife and I to attend the Arab Worldwide Evangelical Ministers Association (AWEMA) meeting at The Cove (Billy Graham's conference centre) in April 2003. It was the first time we had …
For those who look at this objectively, the dead end of green jobs stimulus is unsurprising: Noticeably absent from President Obama's latest economic-stimulus package are any further attempts to create jobs through "green" energy projects, reflecting a year in which the administration's original, loudly trumpeted efforts proved largely unfruitful. The long delays typical with environmentally …
The trade union strikes back in the face of the LA Times publishing teacher performance data: Although the Times acknowledged that this measure does "not capture everything that goes into making a good teacher," that's exactly how the paper used this data. In its race to create dramatic headlines, the paper sacrificed both the tenets …
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