Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Well, somewhat: What image springs to mind when you picture “federally subsidized housing”? Most people imagine a low-income public housing tower, a homeless shelter, or a shoddy apartment building. Nope—suburban homeowners are the single biggest recipient of housing subsidies. As a result, suburbs dominate housing in the United States. For decades, federal finance regulations incentivized single-family homes through …
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That's what's going on in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighbourhood: If “the revolution devours its own,” as the saying has it, then anti-gentrification activists in Boyle Heights, a heavily Latino district just east of downtown Los Angeles, have been feasting. They have greeted liberal artists and hipsters with racial taunts, vandalism, boycotts, and mask-wearing demonstrators. In several cases, they have …
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One of the real shockers of recent American Christianity was the conversion of Hank Hannegraff, the "Bible Answer Man," to Greek Orthodoxy. That was upsetting to many who had followed his Bible answers for many years, but it was especially upsetting to the Reformed types, who basically acted like he had left Christianity. (That sounds …
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As a follow-up to my earlier post, an interesting parallel to Barth's situation, with Luther's solution, from The Reformation: A Narrative History Related by Contemporary Observers and Participants: None the less the Lutheran territories suffered an incisive setback, foreshadowing worse things to come. In 1540 the political bulwark of Protestantism, Langrave Philipp of Hesse, became …
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A live-in mistress with their family, Barth first: I just read a disturbing, I mean for me personally, earth-shatteringly disturbing essay by Christiane Tietz about Karl Barth entitled: Karl Barth and Charlotte von Kirschbaum. As most of us know, who have spent any amount of time with Barth’s theology, his “secretary”, Kirschbaum was rumored to …
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It never ends: now we have a stink over NFL (and other) players "taking the knee" during the National Anthem. Our President and just above everybody else is involved. It's another way to fill up Twitter with vitriol, as if we don't have enough. My attitude towards the traditional respect given towards the National Anthem …
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Given the hatred the left feels for Trump and that former FBI Director James Comey is a career martyr to the cause, you'd think he'd be welcome on campuses. But no... Students at Howard University loudly protested former FBI Director James Comey Friday as he delivered a convocation address. As Comey, making a rare public …
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With the major hurricanes done for the moment and a debt crisis averted by Trump's deal with the Democrats, Congress must turn to the issues in front of it. Tax reform code is at the top of the list, although I'm not holding my breath. Behind that is the DACA program, or the "Dreamers," where …
I could not pass up this gem from Philo Judaeus, in his Life of a Man Occupied with Affairs of State, or on Joseph, I: Now, this man (Joseph) began from the time he was seventeen years of age to be occupied with the consideration of the business of a shepherd, which corresponds to political …
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I've not done much posting re the Anglican Communion these days. That's because, to be honest, it's not an improving story. Predictably the Church of England is going the way of its Episcopal counterpart, having learned nothing from their experience. The orthodox Anglicans have appointed a former tank commander to lead the charge; they're going …
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