Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I've been making this connnection here and here since shortly after the election. Now the International Herald-Tribune joins in: A faltering auto giant whose brands are synonymous with the open road. Hundreds of thousands of unionized workers with powerful political backers. An urgent plea for the government to write a virtual blank check. This is …
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I'm sure that some of you budding theonomists guffawed at the following, from an old post of mine: Let's take a look at this: quote: I exhort therefore that above all things prayers, supplications, petitions, and giving of thanks, be had for all men: for kings, and for all that are in preeminence, that we …
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Evidently someone out there is reading my musings on this subject, as evidenced by this: A key House Democrat is writing legislation that would send $25 billion in emergency loans to the beleaguered auto industry in exchange for a government ownership stake in the Big Three car companies. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority …
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At Barack Obama's first "presidential" press conference, he said the following: We have two criteria that have to be reconciled. One is that Malia is allergic, so it has to be hypoallergenic. There are a number of breeds that are hypoallergenic. On the other hand, our preference would be to get a shelter dog, but, …
It seems that our media never stops on finding ways of griping about people: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, under fire at home for describing U.S. President-elect Barack Obama as "suntanned," said on Friday he saw no need to apologize. At a news conference, Berlusconi was brusque with an American journalist who suggested he should …
Now that Barack Obama has won, the TSA airport screeners hope their desire for a trade union that can strike is realised: Representatives of the American Federation of Government Employees and National Treasury Employees Union said that their top priority under the Obama administration will be to ensure collective bargaining rights for federal airport screeners. …
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With Barack Obama's victory and the Democrats' concomitant advances in the Congress, some reflections and anticipations are in order. I will concentrate on two aspects: the Republican Party and Evangelical Christianity. Republican Party It's fair to say that the Republican Party is history as a national party in the U.S. Oh, it's true that it …
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Starbucks is in trouble after their offer to furnish free coffee for voting on Election Day: Prior to Monday afternoon, Starbucks was promoting an ad that said anyone who says enters a Starbucks on Election Day and says that they voted would get a free cup of tall coffee. Election officials for the state of …
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These pithy quotes, from Black Swan Trading: “Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.” ‐‐ Ambrose Bierce “Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose …
His now controversial stance on the coal industry, as elucidated to the SF Chronicle, is in the mainstream--of the American left's view of the environment and the economy, as I already noted relative to the oil industry: Today, it’s fair to say that the Democrats, on the whole, would like to see a more European …
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