This speaks for itself: (You'll need to get about 4 1/2 minutes into the video to get to that particular question and response.) I've been predicting this kind of thing since before the election. I've also observed that, as President, Barack Obama is caught in the middle on this. As a liberal, putting these people …
A Fistful of Yuan Takes a Step Closer to Reality for Everyone
In putting together my series on doing business in China in the early 1980's, I adopted the title A Fistful of Yuan, turning a business tale into a spaghetti Western (or, more properly, an Eastern.) Well, it looks like the Chinese are working up towards making the yuan a real hard currency, as this indicates: …
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State Secrets: Maybe It’s a Setback for the Obama Administration, and Maybe It Isn’t
The Atlantic tells us that a recent court decision in California is a setback for the Obama Administration: The Obama administration suffered a bit of a legal setback this afternoon: a federal judge in California rejected the administration's assertion of the state secrets privilege in the civil suit brought by an Islamic charity that was …
Tea Parties: The Winners Count Their Money, and the Losers Cry Deal
Looking around at all of the "tea parties" today, the first thing that strikes me is one of my father's old favourite experessions: "the winners count their money and the losers cry deal." It's an old poker player's expression, not something you'd expect from an "Evangelical." But unfortunately the losers cried deal all across the …
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Book Review: Unchristian America
I’ve regularly lamented on this blog the failure of the “Religious Right” to “bring America back to God.” It seems that not only has our President proclaimed to the world that we are not a Christian nation, but also the likes of James Dobson has admitted that the whole effort has ended in failure. How …
Some More Thoughts on Same Sex Civil Marriage
I thought I'd get past Holy Week before delving into this in detail, now more timely that Vermont has legislated same sex civil marriage. In response to my last post on Iowa's Supreme Court decision, I received the following response from a friend on Facebook: Living in the bible belt, and being very much a …
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The French Reject Sanctions Against Downloaders
From Reuters: By a show of hands, the National Assembly rejected Thursday a bill concerning hacking on the Internet which would have enacted a "measured reaction" up to and including the suspension of internet access for the authors of illegal downloading. This dramatic turn of events was caused by the absence of deputies of the …
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Now He Tells Us: Rick Warren Bails on Proposition 8
This is really cute: California mega-church pastor and author of The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren says he apologized to his homosexual friends for making comments in support of California's Proposition 8, and now claims he "never once even gave an endorsement" of the marriage amendment. Monday night on CNN's Larry King Live, Pastor Rick …
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Iowa Supremes Legalise Same Sex Civil Marriage: Right Decision, Wrong Reason?
Or at least that's what University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos thinks: Decisions such as the Iowa Supreme Court’s recent announcement that the state’s constitution requires the state to make same-sex monogamous marriage legal pose a practical dilemma for those of us who support gay marriage, but oppose the more egregious varieties of legal …
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The Rule of Law, or, If You Don’t Believe in a Civilisation, It Won’t Last
Earlier I posted a quote from Charles Freeman on dollar hegemony. The source behind that is here, but he also touched on another interesting subject that no one is talking about: There's another issue that no one's paying any attention to, and that is the consequences of the erosion of the world order that we …
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