Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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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The fracas between Bush and Congress over pending national security legislation brings back some thoughts from the last election cycle: ...we must first realise that the Democrat party today is the party of the 60’s radical. That includes just about every major player in the party. At the heart of sixties radicalism is rebellion against …
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In all of the furor over Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' remarks on Shar'ia law in the UK, one backwash many people in the West forget is the impact it will have on Christian-Muslim relations in places such as Nigeria. As David Virtue points out in his most recent newsletter: Most British pundits viewed Williams' …
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This week's podcast is Never Be Alone Again, performed by the Outpouring, the group of the Community of the Cross in Danbury, CT. This is an extraordinary piece; not only does its lead female vocalist, Fran Novelli, sound a lot like Carole King, but its expression of longing for God is almost mystical. (Some explanation …
One of the toughest nuts to crack in our civilisation (or what passes for one) has been Scientology, which has succeeded in bullying many of its critics into silent oblivion. (I refer to this crew as the "Bologna Club," a term going back to the 1930's and referring to a time when my family and …
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It took Jack Crooks of Black Swan Trading to point out this quote from C.S. Lewis: “Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his …
I was a little surprised to discover that our government has opted to fund LORAN for a little longer. LORAN, or LOng RAnge Navigation, is a system whereby ships, airplanes or other travelling vehicles or people determine their position by comparing the time difference in receipt of radio signals from multiple sources. It has been …
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