Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
One of those things that you run into in religious dialogue is the subject of reincarnation or, to use the fancy term, transmigration of souls. There were even those who thought that that John the Baptist was Elijah reincarnated: “When the Jews sent some Priests and Levites to John from Jerusalem, to ask--“Who are you?”, …
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...bailing out countries: TUMBLING exchange rates, gaping current-account deficits, fearsome foreign-currency borrowings and nasty recessions: these sound like the ingredients of a distant third-world-debt crisis from the 1980s and 1990s. Yet in Europe the mess has been cooked up closer to home, in east European countries, many of them now members of the European Union. …
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As I had predicted last year, we have this: Although he says it could turn into a "show trial," Karl Rove tells FOX News he is looking forward to telling the House Judiciary Committee about his alleged role in the firing of federal prosecutors and the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. Until now, …
If I ever write a "self-help" book, it will be All I Ever Knew About Politics I Learned From the French. (Click here for some of what I have actually written.) Watching the French makes one a cynic, and at times like this it holds one in good stead. My French teacher in prep school …
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Tennessee's Democrat governor weighs his, and the state's, options: Tennessee could reject a portion of the $787 billion economic stimulus package out of concerns that it would force the state to raise taxes on businesses in the future. At the National Governors Association meetings in Washington, D.C., Gov. Phil Bredesen said this week that he …
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Jethro Tull fans will remember the line "slowly upstairs/faster down" from Stand Up's "We Used to Know," and that's pretty much what Obama and Democrats are trying to accomplish in their current program. To use another line from the same album, nothing is easy. On the one hand, Obama knows that Americans expect their government …
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Evidently I'm not the only one who has doubts about this: Left to their own devicies with the investment opportunity set now available the banks will earn their way out of the hole over a period of years. Miserably run as the banks are, this is preferable to handing a nationalized system over to the …
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The new Attorney General pulled no punches on this one: In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives. "Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things …
To some people at least: As the Obama administration begins to deploy US troops back to the Iraq or Afghan war zones for their fourth or fifth tours of duty, I remain amazed at the silent complicity of my country. Why have we been so quiet? Is it because the Bush administration was, in fact, …
Chuck Colson is trying to making things complicated for Evangelicals: So do we retreat into our sanctuaries? Political columnist Cal Thomas, among others, says we should forget the idea of changing culture through politics and just be the church: help the poor, visit those in prison, and so on. To that I say an emphatic …
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