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Rod Dreher
A trillion here, a trillion there…
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Rod Dreher
Now it might cost up to $1 trillion to rescue Fannie and Freddie, in what one insider calls “the mother of all bailouts.” James Poulos says: It’s one thing for a government to spend more money than we have. It’s another to spend more than we can imagine. Cross that threshold, and people will start…
Freaky reverse perspective video (must-see)
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Rod Dreher
Via Boing Boing, this video illustrates the principle of reverse perspective, in which objects farther away become bigger, while those closer grow smaller. Very cool, though I couldn’t get through it without getting dizzy: True Reverse Perspective from JMS on Vimeo.
Dear Britons, kindly shut up about BP
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Rod Dreher
Clive Crook is a Washington-based British journalist who is none too fond of the way President Obama has handled the oil disaster. But he is advising his countrymen to shut up their whining whinging about how mean angry Americans are supposedly being to that fine British company. Crook says, sensibly: A US media frenzy is…
Orthodoxy contra Darwinism?
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Rod Dreher
A troubling development from Moscow: The Russian Orthodox Church called Wednesday for an end to the “monopoly of Darwinism” in Russian schools, saying religious explanations of creation should be taught alongside evolution. Liberals said they would fight efforts to include religious teaching in schools. Russia’s dominant church has experienced a revival in recent years, worrying…
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