Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
It's one thing when a "right wingnut" says it, but when the Director of the Congressional Budget Office does, you know you're in trouble: Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run. Although great uncertainty surrounds …
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From La Gringa's Blogicito (you need to read it all): Mr. President, I am the son of a much beloved former president of Honduras who was overthrown in 1963 by a military coup d’etat. I have in my possession the letter of solidarity that President John F. Kennedy wrote to my father. I understand better …
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Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh... http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x9vh4r "I do think that there's a different quality to what used to be Cominskey Field vs. Wrigley," President Obama told Bob Costas during an interview that aired during Tuesday night's MLB All-Star Game. Or so Chairman Barack opines. In communist countries, it was common …
I don't think an apology is in order. Miguel Alvarez' (Administrative Bishop for the Northeast Hispanic Region of the Church of God) knowledge and passion for this subject has enlightened this blog. From Facebook: Friends, First of all, please accept my apology, for using this channel to express my passionate opinion in favor of democracy …
In this case, Indonesia: Indonesia made stealthy economic progress during Yudhoyono's first term, witnessed in the fact the economy is one of the region's few on course to record positive gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year. That's in part been driven by decentralization measures that have broken the center's long-time stranglehold on natural resource …
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Robert McNamara's death beings back memories of the era when the elitist know-it-alls could do no wrong, then turned around and seriously misjudged the situation in Vietnam: McNamara was secretary of defense during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. In that capacity he directed a U.S. military buildup in Southeast Asia …
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The impetus to republish this 8 July 2005 piece comes on Sunni and Shi'a Islam comes from this, in the Times: The head of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid …
In the early 1990's my wife and I had the pleasure of being on tour in the old Soviet Union with John Brabner-Smith, founding dean of the International School of Law at George Mason University, along with his wife Daniela. (The pleasure was being with the Brabner-Smiths; the Soviet Union was another story, but we …
Continue reading "The Declaration of Independence: Our Foundational Document"
A follow-up to his article yesterday on this subject. Overview About the people. The people would give him absolute powers over the nation. The poor are the majority and have a very poor memory. He had to inject in them a sense of hopelessness, accuse the past and democracy of evildoing. He would have to …
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