Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
There's no doubt that Miami Dolphins' player Channing Crowder is relieved that he won't need a translator when he's in London. But he may not be out of the woods with the language barrier just yet. On some American news channels, when a British speaker of English is being interviewed, we'll sometimes see subtitles just …
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The terror watch list has expanded to include more than 755,000 names. Almost six years ago I wrote Levelling the Playing Field, and proposed the following hypothetical government action in the wake of 9/11: Enacted restrictions on who could fly, empowering the government to "prequalify" travellers on the commercial air system. In a country as …
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Greg Cruey has come back with some interesting points in his response to "Keeping Liberals Entertained." But let me start with his last one, namely voting for Hillary Clinton. One of the enduring problems with the current occupant of the White House is that he will not change his idea when events demonstrate that it …
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Oral Roberts says that the Devil won't steal ORU. Just don't give it away...
Last December, I posted the reverse of an Episcopal baptismal certificate from the time of the Civil War. I got some interest in this on Kendall Harmon's website, and so I'm doing it again, this time with the reverse of a certificate printed in 1924, and used in the Washington, DC area. It starts with …
Greg Cruey of the Universities Weblog referred to my piece on the litigation between the University of California and Christian schools as "entertaining." I'm glad to be of service. Liberals are a hard bunch to entertain. Especially these days, since, if they succeed in defeating the domestic Christian Right, they still have to beat the …
In his piece Why Does Turkey Hate America? (an interesting subject in itself,) "Spengler" puts the central issue of Christianity (and Islam, for that matter) as succinctly as one could want: I have never believed that such a thing as "moderate Islam" exists, any more than I believe that "moderate Christianity" exists. Either Jesus Christ …
If Hillary can dump Socks the cat, she's capable of doing anything. Our reaction:
D. Michael Lindsay's book Faith in the Halls of Power documents the rise of evangelicals in American society. That's an interesting subject, one that I dealt with some in Taming the Rowdies. But I think there are two hard questions that need to be answered before people on both sides get too excited about this. …
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Kendall Harmon had a recent post on the Presiding Bishop’s webcast that included the statement, “There will be no outcasts in this Church.” I could not resist responding as follows: You cannot continue to give preference to one without slighting another, for selection implies rejection. You despise, therefore, those whom you thus reject; for in …
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