Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
In the middle of all the other excitement followed on this blog, last weekend I got to do something completely different: attend my high school class reunion, the first one I had even been to. People were taken aback that I was going to Boca Raton, FL, to do this, but there's no mystery: someone's …
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Camille Paglia shares a concern: I am very concerned about whether our professional class, buffed all shiny and bright by the elite universities, will ever have the will or stamina to defend this nation in a major crisis. As I've predicted for years, we're heading down a path similar to that of the Roman empire …
This, from John Podhertz: The poll could, of course, be an outlier. But if it even begins to approximate the truth, it is huge news. No Republican has scored more than 39 percent of the Jewish vote in modern times, and that was Ronald Reagan in 1980, following a series of missteps by the Carter …
Joyce Reingold notes the following astronomical event later this week: Our Star Watch columnist Mike Lynch also advises we mark our calendars for Friday, 9/19, when — conditions willing — the waning gibbous moon will partially cover the Pleiades between 9:30-11 p.m. “It should be quite a sight to begin your weekend,” he writes. A …
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Back in February I wrote a piece entitled John McCain: My Father's Conservative, where I chided many Republicans who would rather see a Democrat elected rather than vote for McCain. Thanks be to God, the Republican Party has gotten past that, and done so in a glorious way. In the process it has seen McCain …
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A few years back I saw a skit entitled "This is Not Your Life." The skit had one young guy who had just died. An "angel" was showing him the things he did not do in his life. I was taking this in until he showed him one of those undone things: stealing a baby …
Publix Market's plans to expand/replace the venerable Palm Beach store is testament to the fact that the original opening of the store was The Event of the Season, as I documented in a Christmas 2006 post. No doubt that Publix has a long way to go in satifying everyone before they start, but there's no doubt …
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Following up on an earlier posting, Travis Johnson's church conducted its baptismal service without interference from the Miami-Dade County Parksand Recreation Department. You can see his account of it here. Kudos to Travis for his handling of this situation.
Every now and then, with all of the new technology available, it's good to stop and take a look back at some things made in the past, not only for nostalgia, but also for possible inspiration for the present. One of those is one that my family business' West Palm Beach, Florida, facility produced: the …
Kudos to Travis Johnson for posting this piece: Personally, I think his grandmother had the right idea. Like my friend in Moscow, she knows that "he only understands this."
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