Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
"Cuban missile crisis in slow motion" is a good way to describe the situation: Graham Allison, a Harvard professor who is one of America’s leading security strategists, likes to speak of the U.S.-Iranian nuclear confrontation as “the Cuban missile crisis in slow motion.” Well, on Friday morning, that slow-mo process started moving a little faster, …
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A few days ago I wrote a piece on how the "socialists" who are in the ascendant in our government have sold out. Evidently the real articles--and their anarchist friends--have hit the streets of Pittsburgh: Police fired canisters of pepper spray and smoke at marchers protesting the Group of 20 summit Thursday after anarchists responded …
Just when they thought it safe to hang their hat on a theory... This fearsome T Rex, as the Tyrannosaurus is hailed in popular culture after Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Jurassic Park movie series, now apparently has an ancestor not much larger in size than an average human. The evolutionary downgrading was one-hundredth its size but …
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I'm continuing my series of videos of songs that pop up in the novel The Ten Weeks. This time it's Kevin Ayers' "May I?" which appeared on his 1970 album Shooting at the Moon. This rendition (I think) appeared on Spanish television in 1972. Kevin Ayers is someone most Americans are totally unfamiliar with. And …
The situation, as described by The Hill's Brent Budowsky, is a revolutionary's dream come true: The great fault line in American politics today is not Democratic versus Republican, left versus right or black versus white. It is between the core political and financial power centers and the great silent majority of Americans who want to …
The Archbishop of Canterbury may think so: "...the sober testimony of the twentieth century is that the rationality of secular thinking is no guarantee of universal understanding and reconciliation. A rationality that has brought us into the age of nuclear weaponry and global economic meltdown invites some sharp questions, to put it mildly ... As …
This is the core problem with our government these days: Last week the Center for Public Integrity reported that almost 1,800 "special interest groups" have already hired 2,100 lobbyists and spent an estimated $45 million to lobby Congress on transportation in the first half of this year. The center, which tracks money in politics, says …
This, in the Shiny Sheet: Beachgoers wore puzzled looks while watching more than 25 children and parents throwing bread into the ocean, without a seagull in sight. Just before noon on Sunday, the group made the trip from Temple Emanu-El to the Atlantic to cast the bread during a special children’s service for Tashlikh, which …
Jimmy Carter's made quite a splash with his accusation that opposition to Barack Obama's policies--be they health care or otherwise--are racially motivated. When I think of someone with Jimmy Carter's background going on in this fashion, my thoughts turn to this, from Thomas Sowell's Black Rednecks and White Liberals: The cultural values and social patterns …
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Sure looks that way: While it is true that “[c]ourts may not engage in resolving disputes as to religious law, principle, doctrine, discipline, custom, or administration,” Pearson, 325 S.C. at 53, 478 S.E.2d at 854, the resolution of the 2005 Action does not require such judicial meddling. The 2005 case turns on a determination of …
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