Got this in the email this morning: May 16, 2009 Dear Friends, Earlier today in a conference call with members of the State Executive Committee, I announced my intention to step down as Chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party effective May 30, 2009. As I turn the helm of our great party over to new …
Sam Ervin’s Speech on Ex Parte Milligan
In view of the back and forth on the Guantanamo detainees and the legal status of same, an interesting audio document is Sen. Sam Ervin's (D-NC, right) monlogue--and back and forth with Watergate witness John Erlichmann and his counsel--during the Watergate hearings. The monologue is about 30 minutes into the audio clip. The date was …
Fruit That Lasts
"It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name." (John 15:16) This verse deals with two important issues -- the nature of Jesus' calling and the nature …
Rowan Williams, Golf, Miserable and Glorious Failure at the ACC and Elsewhere
In his own wrap of the Anglican Consultative Council, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams made a statement that, for me, stuck out like a sore thumb: Drawing upon a phrase coined by the English Roman Catholic nun, Maria Boulding, Dr Williams stated “the alternatives for Christians were not success or failure, but glorious failure and …
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The Sad Lessons of Carrie Prejean
One of the sorrier sagas that has unfolded before us is the matter of Carrie Prejean's loss of the Miss USA crown because she didn't give a "correct" answer to Perez Hilton's question about gay marriage. Losing the crown wasn't enough, evidently; the abuse she's endured since then has been ferocious. Unfortunately she's compounded the …
Church and State: A Different View
The recent changes in the leadership (such as it is) composition in the U.S. give the Evangelical community an opportunity for a serious "reality check" in their idea regarding the relationship of Christianity with the state. So let's take a serious look at what the New Testament really says, instead of what everyone else says …
Notre Dame Response Group Produces Video Against Barack Obama’s Visit
This is an outstanding video (HT to David Brody.) The one thing that no one seems to want to verbalise is that, if Barack Obama goes ahead and implements his requirements that medical facilities and practicioners perform abortions, that he would be shoving his idea down the throats of the Catholic medical system. The Catholic …
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Direct Derivation of the Equation of Motion for an Undamped Oscillating System in Phase Angle Form
Note: this article was mangled during a site platform transition; however, it was duplicated a while back and you can see it properly here. And now for something completely different... The equations of motion for linear vibrating systems are well known and widely used in both mechanical and electrical devices. However, when students are introduced …
A Church to Believe In, A Country to Believe In
Two events this past weekend ran together to illustrate what is, for me, the central dilemma of living in this world--the fact that authority no longer reflects what we know to be true. Let's start with the church. In reaction to my posting of George Conger and Kevin Kallsen Put a Wrap on the Anglican …
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George Conger and Kevin Kallsen Put a Wrap on the Anglican Consultative Council’s Process About the Covenant
http://blip.tv/play/AYGAtzOUogk This is about a succinct take on the failure of the Covenant (for which few tears are shed here, for this reason) as I've seen. In addition to the subject matter, I'm posting this for two reasons. The first is that I find myself lost in many of the parliamentary and procedural reports I …
Positive Infinity 