Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
In the early 1990's my wife and I had the pleasure of being on tour in the old Soviet Union with John Brabner-Smith, founding dean of the International School of Law at George Mason University, along with his wife Daniela. (The pleasure was being with the Brabner-Smiths; the Soviet Union was another story, but we …
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This, from the Weekly Update of the Church of God Chaplains Commission, Dr. Robert Crick, Executive Director, after a trip to the church's seminary in Quito, Ecuador: When you travel to other areas of the world, in this case, to South America, you obviously get a bigger picture of not just what God is doing …
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This is a continuation of Part III. 67. For what is so wicked and so sinful as after the example of Simon Magus (even if with other faults he had not been defiled before), for any man with earthly price to purchase the office of a bishop or priest, which with holiness and righteous life …
This piece was originally written 5 June 2006, when legislation was being considered to make ethnic Hawaiians a "protected group."Â The whole business of protected groups is very much still with us in American life and politics. Back in the early 1980's, our family business had an ongoing business relationship with the People's Republic of …
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A follow-up to his article yesterday on this subject. Overview About the people. The people would give him absolute powers over the nation. The poor are the majority and have a very poor memory. He had to inject in them a sense of hopelessness, accuse the past and democracy of evildoing. He would have to …
Continue reading "More from Miguel Alvarez: The Untold Story: Zelaya’s Agenda for Honduras"
This is a continuation of Part II. 34. But when the imagination of thy violent rule had succeeded according to thy wishes, and thou west urged by a desire to return into the right way, night and day the consciousness of thy crimes afflicted thee, whilst thou didst ruminate on the Lord's ritual and the …
I've had very few nice things to say over the years about the Miami Herald (the paper I grew up on) but this time Glenn Garvin nails it, on the subject of Honduras: Here's a question for all these new-found defenders of Honduran democracy: Where were you last week? Perhaps if some of these warnings …
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I wanted an insider's view of this situation. I got one: this from Rev. Miguel Alvarez, a native of Honduras and the current Administrative Bishop of the Northeastern Hispanic Region of the Church of God. (He's also a good friend and a great guy.) From his Facebook note: Beloved friends, I write this note from …
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This is a continuation of Part I. II. THE HISTORY 3. The island of Britain, situated on almost the utmost border of the earth, towards the south and west, and poised in the divine balance, as it is said, which supports the whole world, stretches out from the south-west towards the north pole, and is …
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