Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Nancy Pelosi's "requirement" of numerous police and security personnel on a recent visit of Palm Beach is something that I found curious. But it also got me thinking about the strange--surreal, in many ways--state of our political process. Palm Beach shouldn't be a threatening kind of place for Nancy Pelosi. It's in a house district …
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Gary L'Hommedieu asks this question--and answers it--in an Anglican context: "If over 80% of Anglicans live in the global south, why is this not reflected in communion structures?" writes Indian Ocean Primate Ian Earnest in an April 12 letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury in which he protests, among other things, the illicit transfer of …
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Perry Robinson puts it at its simplest: Sooner or later reasonable people figure out that they can believe everything in such a view without being a member of said “church” and can sleep in on Sunday morning, giving their cash to other organizations. They can then use their own time in ways that they find …
As usual, a big deal is made of this: But this is simply the obeisance that any hopeless debtor would give its largest creditor. It reminds me of a quip by a local county commissioner: if you walk into a bank as a large depositor, they tell you "yes, sir" or "yes, m'am," but if …
True words, spoken by Aerospace Industries Association CEO Marion Blakey at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches: “Let’s face it, it will be a long time — if ever — before a robot could repair the Hubble telescope or make the many adjustments needed to add modules to the International Space Station,” Blakey said. …
The terrible plane crash which has killed much of Poland's leadership leaves one speechless. The Poles have taken much: partition of their country at the end of the 18th Century (the "Enlightenment" no less!), a battlefield in World War I, re-emerging after that only to be dismembered (and much of the population, Jew and Gentile, …
History is, for Americans especially, a problematic business. There are those who want to transmit history, and others who want to redefine it. But for most people history is something that gets ignored. For Evangelicals, the common attitude that "between Apostles and us, people weren't saved" only makes matters worse. But the history of the …
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Towards the end of David Savage's piece on John Paul Stevens, this: Stevens' early life had more than its share of grand moments and deep tragedies. He was born in 1920, the youngest of four boys in a wealthy family. When he was 7, his father opened the 28-story Stevens Hotel on Michigan Avenue (now …
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It decided the Mayor's race: An appellate court has affirmed a Palm Beach County Circuit Court judge’s decision upholding the result of the town’s February 2009 mayoral election. Mayor Jack McDonald defeated challenger Gerry Goldsmith by a single vote in a Feb. 21 recount of a Feb. 17 runoff between the two. In an opinion …
Not a moment too soon either: Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, targeted for defeat by Tea Party activists for his crucial role in securing House approval of the health care overhaul, said today he would retire from Congress this year. The nine-term congressman told the Associated Press he could have won re-election and insisted he wasn't …
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