Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Today is the so-called "Day of Silence" put on by the LGBT community to attempt to illustrate their idea of what they go through because they are LGBT. The idea is to "raise consciousness" (a good Maoist term) about the "plight" of LGBT people. Since this event targets schools, it's fair game to bring up …
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They are strange creatures, these Bolsheviks. They talk of freedom and the reconciliation of the peoples of the world, of peace and unity, and withal they are said to be the most cruel tyrants history has ever known. They are simply exterminating the bourgeoisie, and their arguments are machine guns and the gallows. My talk …
Table of Contents and Overview for At the Inlet | Information and ordering instructions for all of our fiction Later that day Julian, Terry and Priscilla resumed their tour. Their next stop was St. Simon’s Church in Fort Albert. Until the war all of the Anglican churches in what is now Drahla were Churches of …
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In the speech he used to fire radio "shock jock" Don Imus (looks like the shock is going the other way) CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said the following: There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to …
We begin yet another podcast series, this time the contemporary Catholic album Who Shall Spread the Good News? by Roger Smith, Michael Howell and the New Commitment. Although it may seem a stretch to call this album a "classic," that is what it is. Personally, I always found this album to be good to hear …
Holy Week was magnificent. You, the Rector of an Anglican church, know it. The choir was heavenly. The altar guild outdid themselves again. Not a revisionist in sight. Your sermon even ended with more than half of the congregation awake! Your golf game on Easter Monday with the Senior Warden only crowned the whole experience. …
Today many of the millions of Authorised (King James) Bibles printed and distributed lack the preface of the translators to the most important translation of God's Word in the English language. We present it here for the following reasons: It shows clearly that the Authorised Version is a product of the Church of England, which …
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On my first trip to the then Soviet Union in 1988, I noted the following: After this, we were given tour of the seminary (at the Monastery of Trinity-St. Sergius, outside of Moscow)museum by a seminarian. This contains historical articles of the Orthodox church of all kinds and a special section on the life and …
As Good Friday comes upon us, one passage of Scripture that bothers many is as follows: “Now, at the Feast, the Governor was accustomed to grant the people the release of any one prisoner whom they might choose. At that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So, when the people had collected, Pilate …
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Conservative criticism of Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria needs to be tempered by some Middle Eastern reality: In the Middle East, terrorism is considered a means to an end, i.e., political victory, rather than an end itself. That's why the phrase "war on terrorism" is misleading. A "war on Islamic careerism" is more appropriate. Syria's …
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