I have stated in a previous article on a different issue that we are becoming a nation of public policy promise breakers. That is, we make solemn and legally binding promises, which are relied on by people, and then break them later in the face of intense emotional narratives by other affected . . . . Continue Reading »
I will make this short and simple, but I have hopes that many will be interested in the idea.We have all seen that huge amounts of foreign aid pouring into Africa through the years has done relatively little to make the lives of Africans better. They still lack some of the basic things like . . . . Continue Reading »
1. How ancient Greek statues really looked Original Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away. Find out how shining a light on the statues can be all that’s required to see them as they were thousands of years ago. . . . . Continue Reading »
King’s College is an undergraduate institution in Manhattan. Revitalized by Campus Crusade a decade or so ago, it was moved to the Empire State Building. The college was meant to bring Christ to Babylon, and to bring Christian students into the hurley-burley of a global city. Today . . . . Continue Reading »
A Saudi man who paralyzed another man in a physical assault is threatened with the punishment of being made paralyzed. From the story:A Saudi man convicted of paralysing a fellow countryman in a cleaver attack is being threatened with having his spinal cord cut in a tit-for-tat punishment. The . . . . Continue Reading »
A slow day, but here are three things. The lone piper on D-Day has died. His obituary in the Daily Telegraph begins “Millin began his apparently suicidal serenade immediately upon jumping from the ramp of the landing craft into the icy water. As the Cameron tartan of his kilt floated to the . . . . Continue Reading »
I posted this piece earlier today at the Asia Times “Inner Workings” blog. Normally I don’t double post, but this is a cool piece of analysis. Pardon me for repeating myself. In the crudest version of the dividend discount model, the stock price P is a function of earnings and . . . . Continue Reading »
Democrats forced Obamacare down the national throat in defiance of the views of the American people. Having badly lost the political debate, they assured themselves that once people found out what was in it, we would thank them and see the wisdom of the new law’s ways.Uh, not so much. And so, . . . . Continue Reading »
From time to time we’ll be posting links to articles our editorial board members and contributing writers have published online, under the running title “Our Writers Elsewhere” and with the date to help with searching. Here are links to articles one editor and one writer have . . . . Continue Reading »
Margaret Somerville, the splendid Canadian bioethicist, has a good (and needed) column out defending human exceptionalism. From “Preserving Humanity:”Wrestling with difficult questions is routine work for ethicists. But some are much more difficult than others. Recently, an editor . . . . Continue Reading »
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