Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
...the Cold War would have ended a lot sooner: In the early 1970's, when the Brezhnev era seemed most full of promise, an elderly Frenchman travelled from Moscow to Khabarovsk on the Trans-Siberian railway. After only a few hours at the eastern end of the line he boarded the train again for the long journey …
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Which is, more or less, what Barack Obama told Sen Jon Kyl (R-AR) yesterday: The top congressional leaders from both parties gathered at the White House for a working discussion over the shape and size of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan. The meeting was designed to promote bipartisanship. But Obama showed that in an …
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It pays to have a little (actually, a lot of) humility, and such is the case with the nomination of Kirsten Gillibrand to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate. Earlier this week, I predicted that "it’s a given that New York Gov. David Patterson isn’t going to appoint a Republican, or a conservative Democrat for …
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I was afraid that this was going to happen: When President-elect Barack Obama announced last month that he would revive the economy with the largest public works program since the dawn of the Interstate System of highways, advocates for the nation's long-neglected infrastructure were euphoric. Some hoped that the time had finally come to bring …
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It's hard to believe, but... With every step taken by the Government as it tries frantically to prop up the British banking system, this central truth becomes ever more obvious. Yesterday marked a new low for all involved, even by the standards of this crisis. Britons woke to news of the enormity of the fresh …
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One common complaint people have with many things they buy these days is that they are designed with the idea that they will, at an appointed time, wear out and become useless, requiring their replacement. But that wasn't the case with my old family business, the Vulcan Iron Works. At the right is a pile …
It looks like the fix is in on this: DESPITE claims that he's still undecided, Gov. Paterson is "certain" to pick Caroline Kennedy to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton in the US Senate, several unhappy contenders for the job have told friends and associates in recent days. The contenders based their conclusion on the view that …
In the present "lovefest" climate that's surrounding Barack Obama's inauguration, it's good to remember that there's more to finding peace and happiness than racial unity and "equality:" I have already said, in previous Books, that God had two purposes in deriving all men from one man. His first purpose was to give unity to the …
Continue reading "The Two Cities: The Really Important Source of Division in Our World"
It's official, the press release in its entirety: For the last several years Pathway Bookstore has served the Cleveland and Bradley County community at its current location. Pathway Press has struggled with the economic issues that affect everyone at this time. Due to the uncertainty of the economy, and after much deliberation, the leadership of …
Baby Blue's nice little article on the role of the local church vis à vis the beginnings of the Episcopal Church in Virginia are interesting for the current history of TEC, but they have a broader application: James Madison and Thomas Jefferson did not think so highly of the former established church's assertions either. And …
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