Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I wanted an insider's view of this situation. I got one: this from Rev. Miguel Alvarez, a native of Honduras and the current Administrative Bishop of the Northeastern Hispanic Region of the Church of God. (He's also a good friend and a great guy.) From his Facebook note: Beloved friends, I write this note from …
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Fox News thinks so: The Grand Old Party's 2012 presidential pool isn't looking so grand these days. Add Nevada Sen. John Ensign's and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's extramarital affairs to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's unconvincing TV speech and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's family dramas, and the Republican presidential herd is thinning fast -- leaving …
Yes, it does: Section 7874 was enacted to foreclose many tax benefits from the transfer of a U.S. corporate business to a foreign corporation or the insertion of a foreign holding company as owner of U.S. corporations. The rules also apply to similar partnership transfers. Two different sets of rules apply, depending on the percentage …
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Originally posted March 2006. This issue has cost the Republican Party dearly, perhaps fatally. Had conservatives realised the reality of what they were defending, they might have taken a different view. Then again perhaps not... It wasn't so long after the first English settlers came to Jamestown, VA, that black slaves were forcibly brought from …
This article was originally published in the Winter 1990 issue of the National Forum of the Phi Kappa Phi honour fraternity. It was considerably reduced for publication; below is the complete text of the article. The subsequent history of the article is documented in a two-part series (Part I and Part II.) Also of …
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Back in April, I noted that the IRS, in a private letter ruling, had certain exemption from the tax code's excess compensation limits. (No, people, the concept of the government deciding what is excess compensation is nothing new.) Chuck Rubin, whose tax blog is great, reports that the IRS, in a different part of the …
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The Department of Biological Sciences of Lehigh University (from whence my grandfather graduated in 1912) took the rather bold step of publicly opposing the concept of intelligent design as articulated by one of its own faculty members, Dr. Michael Behe (author of the opening shot in this debate, the book Darwin's Black Box.) How times …
The time for decision by our judiciary has come: Chrysler LLC creditors asked a U.S. Supreme Court justice to block the carmaker from selling its assets as early as tomorrow to a group led by Italy’s Fiat SpA. Indiana pension funds that lent Chrysler money said in papers filed late yesterday that they will seek …
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Archie can be heard making music in 1977 here. He's still making music; click here to go to his website. It was yet another hostage incident in 1997 when Rick McLaren took hostages in West Texas. Living in Tennessee, I had not heard of the "Republic of Texas" movement to separate the State of Texas …
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The European left can't get traction in the current depression: Yet as Europe goes to the polls, left-leaning parties across the continent are looking likely to falter. That's true both for those in government, such as in the U.K. and Spain, and in the opposition -- such as France, Germany and Italy. France's Socialist Party …
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