This was actually my first blog article, posted 14 April 2005. After a hiatus, this past spring I found myself back teaching Civil Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. This is an activity I find professionally and personally satisfying, if not financially. During the hiatus, the campus had made some major technological changes. …
The Strange Anglican Response to Father Alberto Cutié’s Switch to TEC
The Archdiocese of Miami's response to Father Cutié's bailing out on the RCC is understandable: According to our canon law, with this very act Father Cutié is separating himself from the communion of the Roman Catholic Church (c. 1364, §1) by professing erroneous faith and morals, and refusing submission to the Holy Father (canon 751). …
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Book Review: N.T. Wright’s The Resurrection of the Son of God
N.T. Wright, Anglican scholar and Bishop of Durham, has gained for himself the reputation as a strong "reasserting" scholar, especially with his massive book series Christian Origins and the Question of God. The Resurrection of the Son of God-dealing with the most important point of the debate-is the third book of the series. The Resurrection …
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Chrysler Creditors: Approaching the Moment of Truth on Property Rights
The time for decision by our judiciary has come: Chrysler LLC creditors asked a U.S. Supreme Court justice to block the carmaker from selling its assets as early as tomorrow to a group led by Italy’s Fiat SpA. Indiana pension funds that lent Chrysler money said in papers filed late yesterday that they will seek …
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Archie Lowe: Before the Republic of Texas
Archie can be heard making music in 1977 here. He's still making music; click here to go to his website. It was yet another hostage incident in 1997 when Rick McLaren took hostages in West Texas. Living in Tennessee, I had not heard of the "Republic of Texas" movement to separate the State of Texas …
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Maybe Europe Doesn’t Need Real Democracy Either
The European left can't get traction in the current depression: Yet as Europe goes to the polls, left-leaning parties across the continent are looking likely to falter. That's true both for those in government, such as in the U.K. and Spain, and in the opposition -- such as France, Germany and Italy. France's Socialist Party …
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World War II in the Pacific vs. World War II in Europe: The War of the Future vs. The War of the Past
The sad article in the L.A. Times about our fading legacy in the Pacific brought many things to mind, especially for someone whose father fought in that theatre. From the time that FDR, with the usual British connaivance, decided to put the main emphasis on the European theatre, World War II in the Pacific has …
Sonia Sotomayor: The 100 Person Referendum on White People
It seems that the issue of Sonia Sotomayor's idea about the relation between her ethnicity, gender and life experiences and her decisions on the bench won't go away. Why? Because she keeps bringing it up: The federal appeals court judge divulged new details about her finances and provided three decades of writings, speeches and rulings …
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In Search of the Lost Movado
I spend a lot of time on this site talking about yachting around South Florida and the Bahamas. As a family we were privileged to do so in an era when things weren't so crowded—or regulated—as they are now. We also got to miss the thrill of the piracy wave that swept over the region …
When the Sheep Have Anthrax: A Reflection on the Politics of the Middle East
This was originally written for Christmas 2001--right after 9/11 and the anthrax scares--but deals with the whole political and social dynamic of the Middle East, before and after Islam. It's good to think about this after Barack Obama's Cairo speech, and should be a caution to the unbridled idealism that dominates the rhetoric of too …
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