Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
This is the time of year when we give thanks (well, those of us who know to whom to give thanks) and put a wrap on another liturgical year. It's also the time of year when we commemorate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. One of those who has done so--and deservedly--is Robert F. …
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Sometimes the most interesting and profound of statements come from some of the unlikeliest places, and this is one of them: it was reprinted in the January 1919 edition of Crane Valve World, the periodical of the Crane Company, the Chicago based company that makes valves and other fittings for piping of air, steam, water …
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Ever since his passing on Sunday, the media has lionised--and social media denigrated--Jimmy Carter. One statement in Al Mohler's piece on Carter caught my attention: Time does seem to mellow powerful memories—even powerful political memories. That is especially true when most Americans alive today were not yet born when Carter left the White House, overwhelmingly …
At the beginning of Robert E. Quirk's The Mexican Revolution, 1914-1915: The Convention of Aguascalientes, he gives an overview of Mexico in the last years of Porfirio Diaz: In September 1910 Mexico celebrated the hundredth anniversary of Father Miguel Hidalgo's "Cry of Dolores" which launched the war of independence against Spain. It was a magnificent …
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It's official: President Biden made the unprecedented decision Sunday to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, less than four months after being declared the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee and just weeks after a dismal debate showing. Getting him out of the way--and that's what really happened--doesn't solve his party's basic problem, which I stated at the very start of …
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