At the end of August, the Royal Navy gave the UK Telegraph a rare glimpse of what’s going on today in the arcane world of the submariner, under the Northern Atlantic’s restless surface. The report includes the nugget that “British submariners … are experiencing the highest number of ‘contacts’ with Russian submarines since 1987.”
It’s no surprise that Russian attack submarines are trying to trail British ballistic-missile submarines, as the Telegraph reports. But the reference to 1987 is informative. In the annals of the Cold War, 1987 was the last year the Soviet Navy maintained the very active global [...]
Once again, my bookmark folder overfloweth.
When we consider the scientific method, we often think about matching an effect with a cause. But have we become so accustomed to this paradigm that we mismatch causes and effects? Yes, and ICR, in this article, provides some specific examples. The US Court System is allowing a lawsuit to go forward that ties the severity of damage caused by Hurricane Katrina with the “global climate change” from burning fossil fuels. Once you throw law and logic out the window, you can claim just about anything you like. The comparison to Jeremiah 44 [...]
What do you think would happen if the situation were reversed? A Christian group building a new wall on top of an existing wall next to a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem without permits? They would be slaughtered in the news media. But nary a word from the “mainstream press.”
For the record, I don’t believe we know, for certain, where Jesus was crucified or where his body lay when he was resurrected, but those things are moot at this point; there is no reason to believe Mohammad took off from the Temple Mount when he flew off on [...]
This is such a well written article that I wanted to share some key parts of it with you. The sugared “niceness” which coats our society is becoming a coffin.
In its basic form, the Ground Zero mosque debate boils down to a conflict between two competing values – American freedom of religion versus the sensitivities of the families of the victims of 9/11.
The freedom-of-religion argument suggests that if Jews sought to build a synagogue at Ground Zero (or anywhere else, for that matter), they would be within their rights. That’s the American way. The opposing view suggests [...]
In the Federalist Papers, the authors dedicate considerable space to history’s failed experiments in self-government. John Adams wrote in 1798, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” What Adams suggests is the people’s character impacts our government’s character. The early generations of Americans were independent-minded folks. Help for those in need came from the church, the family, or the community. Citizens expected only a few limited functions to be performed by the state. In 21st century America, we expect the government to provide Social Security [...]
BBC Director General Mark Thompson has admitted the corporation was guilty of a ‘massive’ Left-wing bias in the past. The TV chief also admitted there had been a ‘struggle’ to achieve impartiality and that staff were ‘ mystified’ by the early years of Margaret Thatcher’s government. … His comments, made in the New Statesman magazine, are one of the clearest admissions of political bias from such a senior member of its staff. The BBC has long been accused of being institutionally biased towards the Left, and an internal report from 2007 said it had to make greater efforts to [...]
Mr. Obama’s speech on the end of combat operations in Iraq brought out a number of reactions; a few of these reactions are well worth reading completely, and digesting, as much for what they tell us about ourselves as a nation as anything else.
Obama warns against “open-ended wars,” as if they are almost animate things. But wars end, not when they reach a rational, previously agreed-upon expiration date, but usually when tough, specific wartime choices are made that lead to victory or end in defeat. One party must decide – for good or bad reasons – that it [...]
In a letter published on November 27, 1977, Mr. Rauf commented on Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic trip to Israel and encouraged his fellow Muslims to “give peace a chance.” That John Lennon lyric sounds good. But he added: “For my fellow Arabs I have the following special message: Learn from the example of the Prophet Mohammed, your greatest historical personality. After a state of war with the Meccan unbelievers that lasted for many years, he acceded, in the Treaty of Hudaybiyah, to demands that his closest companions considered utterly humiliating. Yet peace turned out to be a most [...]
Last week, Lebanon’s parliament amended a clause in a 1946 law that had been used to bar the 400,000 Palestinians living in the country from taking any but the most menial jobs. “I was born in Lebanon and I have never known Palestine,” the AP quoted one 45-year-old Palestinian who works as a cab driver. “We want to live like Lebanese. We are human beings and we need civil rights.” The dirty little secret of the Arab world is that it has consistently treated Palestinians living in its midst with contempt and often violence. In 1970, Jordan expelled thousands [...]
What’s the difference? One is the Mall in Washington, DC, after the inauguration of Mr. Obama. That’s really what the crowd left things looking like. It looks like a disaster area. The “greens” didn’t leave much in the way of green behind, did they? The second is the Mall in Washington, DC —the same place— after the Glen Beck rally this week. Green grass. No garbage.
I wonder —what do you think is the difference between these two groups of people? Does the word respect come to mind? [...]
I posted a couple of days ago on phobias, and the long list of them we seem to be encountering now-a-days. Well, I’ve just discovered two more phobias I think you should know about. The first is Iranophobia. Seriously.
A top military aide to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution said that the US is striving hard to spread Iranophobia in the region in a bid to sell its weapons to the regional states. The US is introducing Iran to the regional countries as an enemy to sell its military equipment to them, Supreme Leader’s Advisor for Military [...]
We stand today at the symbolic crossroads of our nation’s history. All around us are monuments to those who have sustained us in word or deed. There in the distance stands the monument to the father of our country. And behind me, the towering presence of the Great Emancipator who secured our union at the moment of its most perilous time and freed those whose captivity was our greatest shame. And over these grounds where we are so honored to stand today, we feel the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who on this very day, two score [...]
That flushing sound you hear is your privacy going down the drain.
This summer, a total of 6,500 Israeli teenagers attended a series of 10 festivals known as Coca-Cola Village, and all of them used RFID technology to share a large percentage of their experiences with friends and family through social networking site Facebook. Digital marketing group E-dologic developed and installed the system for Coca-Cola Israel, and managed the entire event through what became the most popular Facebook page in that country, with 80,000 users and 652,700 daily post views. -RFID Journal
This is such a brilliant idea [...]
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