Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
One of the reasons why people join churches like Anglican, Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches (especially the last one) is to have a church which can have continuity with the "Fathers of the Church." For Roman Catholics, one of the four "Doctors of the Church" (the most important of the Fathers) is St. Jerome, the …
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Charles Rangel is proposing the "Mother of All Tax Reforms." But he may not know the origin of the phrase he's using to describe it. It's obviously a takeoff of Saddam Hussein's "Mother of All Battles" description of what turned out to be (for him) the rout of the first Gulf War. In a place …
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The news report put out by the Carolina Week staff (video below) and the attempt by John Edwards' campaign to get it pulled shows the dilemma that every candidate that runs on the left has in dealing with the "contradictions" (as Mao Dun would put it) in advancing their cause. Conventional wisdom would have us …
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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 …
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