Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The New York Times may have helped John McCain to solve his problems vis a vis the economic conservatives in his party: "You're surprised that Page Six-type gossip is on the front page of The New York Times?" Limbaugh asked as he began his radio show. "Where have you been? How in the world can …
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I can't tell you how many times I heard growing up, "the grass isn't always greener on the other side." I knew what the message was, but, in a place like Palm Beach, with high hedges on the property lines, I couldn't see the grass on the other side! What was needed was a more …
It's rough when your own mother trashes what you do for a living: Sen. Hillary Clinton took a swipe at her daughter's profession today at an economic roundtable discussion at a restaurant in Parma, Ohio, suggesting wealthy investment bankers and hedge fund managers on Wall Street aren't doing real 'work.' The former first lady's daughter, …
Much to the dismay of many, the U.S. has outsourced much of its manufacturing capabilities to other countries. Now we have the possibility of outsourcing something that many didn't think could be: a seaport: Planned to be larger, cheaper and more efficient than Long Beach-Los Angeles, America's busiest seaport, Puerto Colonet (south of San Diego, …
Having lived not so far from I-35, the "Holy Highway," I take some special interest in this topic, which has caught the attention of NPR. In this story we read the following: Do travelers think it's strange when they see a cluster of people — heads bowed and hands uplifted — on a grassy strip …
The Brown government's decision to nationalise Northern Rock takes us back to the days when Labour governments in the UK were wont to nationalise just about everything that moved--literally in the case of British Rail and British Leyland. (I've compared the latter to the Anglican Communion elsewhere, and in fact the Church of England itself …
South Floridian Travis Johnson, from Perry Noble via Toby Morgan, let us know the following: We can’t get to where we’re going until we first admit where we are. This quotation--and the way he got to it--reminds me of something that happened to my father many years ago while trying to run our family business …
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The Chinese have their own point of view about Steven Spielberg's pullout of the Olympics: "This person is completely living in his sci-fi world and cannot distinguish dream from reality," said a commentator in the China Youth Daily. The official Xinhua news agency said Chinese people were baffled by the behaviour of the man behind …
Kosovo's declaration of independence makes me think of Spengler's article on the subject from about a year ago: If Serbia and Russia draw a line in the sand over the independence of Kosovo, we may observe the second occasion in history when a Muslim advance on Europe halted on Serbian soil. The first occurred in …
I've spent some time on this blog talking about the present crisis Evangelical Christianity faces in the U.S., and what might be done about it. There are a lot of explanations of why this is so, but one of the most intriguing comes from David Murrow. In his book Why Men Hate Going to Church, …
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