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“Excellence in diplomacy is a vital prerequisite to the success and endurance of great powers…. [T]he United States will need to recover the lost art of diplomacy.” — A. Wess Mitchell, “Recovering the Lost Art of Diplomacy” It is time to take a look at another great article via Hillsdale’s Imprimis newsletter. This one was […]
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” — Plato The following video came to my attention just a couple days ago, and I thought it the perfect thing to share in the spirit of this Memorial Day. A moving tribute, written and narrated by former Navy SEAL and author Jocko Willink…. Memorial Day: […]
“This was a surprise for me — I was not looking for this.” — Marcelo de Oliveira Souza, cosmologist at State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro There are many factors that slow our “on-site” study of other planets, moons, etc. Incredible distances, for example, mean very long flight times. Then you have to factor […]
“California in the 21st century [has been] possibly the most pathetic episode of progressive governance in the last 50 years.” — Jonah Goldberg, the “G-File” at The Dispatch It was just a couple weeks ago that I wrote an intro about The Dispatch newsletters before sharing an excerpt from an Alex Trembath article at Dispatch […]
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a bit about the “Rapid Fire” series Greg Koukl was doing lately in STR’s “Solid Ground” newsletter. I then reproduced one of the vignettes (from Part 4) in which Koukl examined the atheist-materialist claim that “Consciousness is an illusion.” I promised another vignette for you to cogitate on, so […]
“As many energy analysts have been warning for years, even impressively declining solar and wind costs will not enable renewables to meet all or even most of the electricity demand facing modern power grids.” — Alex Trembath, Dispatch Energy As I have stated before, The Dispatch newsletters are not exactly my favorites, since I often […]
Greg Koukl and his team at Stand to Reason (STR) put out a bimonthly newsletter titled “Solid Ground”, in which Koukl (or possibly a guest-writer) addresses some biblical, theological, philosophical, and/or socio-cultural issue. Lately, he has been doing a series called “Rapid Fire”, in which he gives brief responses to multiple such questions in each […]
Some people love unions, some people hate them, and others just tolerate them as an unavoidable reality in their lives. Fortunately, I’ve never been pressured into joining a labor union nor had to deal with one from the management side. For a long time I just assumed that doing so was pretty much as we […]
“It’s ironic that a video trying to expose the most blatant misconception of Christianity gives us a blatant misconception of Christianity.” — Mr. B, “Red Pen Logic” For some teaching/commentary apropos of the current holiday season, we return to Christian apologist Mr. B and his “Red Pen Logic” channel on YouTube. The brief videos below […]
“[This] announcement continues to build on the department’s promise to streamline federal education functions and cut red tape.” — Madison Marino Doan and Jonathan Butcher, The Heritage Foundation A little over a year ago, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the end of the U.S. Dept. of Education, which has existed only since […]
