Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The liberals are picking themselves off of the floor at the realisation that Pat Robertson has come out in favour of the legalisation of marijuana. (He's been working up to this for some time.) NORML, at this writing, hasn't even gotten around to admitting it. Many others are in shock also. His logic on this, …
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Had former Secret Service agent Dan Emmett been raised in a place like Palm Beach, he would have seen this coming: In several anecdotes, former agent Dan Emmett revealed that Clinton’s young staff had “fundamental traits of rudeness and arrogance” that teetered on the verge of being dangerous at times. “Most of these youngsters were …
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In an unusually barefaced statement of what many Christians actually think, Michael Olgren, Finance Committee Chairman of dying Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, MI, blurted out the following: At the parish's annual meeting on January 12, 2012, Dr. Michael Olgren, Chair of the Finance Committee, painted a dire financial picture of the parish stating …
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In a culture that imputes statistical studies with authority they don't deserve, this warning, from Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN 77, is very salutary: Data consist of numbers, of course. But these numbers are fed into the computer, not produced by it. These are numbers to be treated with considerable respect, neither to be tampered with, …
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This, from David Virtue's Online Digest, sure makes it look that way: The saga of TAC Bishop David L. Moyer and his Newman fellowship continues. He announced to his small flock this week that he would not be accepting Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson's offer of laicization in order to enter the Roman Catholic Church. Instead, he …
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It is fashionable (especially in Anglican/Episcopal circles where it is so common these days) to refer to conversion to Roman Catholicism as "swimming the Tiber." Although Hillaire Belloc never actually had to convert (although a recovery was in order,) his The Path to Rome (which he actually walked, via the Alps) is probably a better …
Finally, someone on the inside states the obvious: President Barack Obama's Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu uttered the kind of Washington gaffe that consists of telling the truth when inconvenient. According to Politico, Chu admitted to a House committee that the administration is not interested in lowering gas prices. Chu, along with the Obama administration, …
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