by Didact | Feb 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
You can’t even get spaced if you’re a Muslim, according to the UAE’s government: The United Arab Emirates issued a religious law Thursday banning Muslims from manning a spaceflight voyage to Mars. Starting in 2024, Dutch...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
I have a fairly (un)healthy contempt for the Obarmy administration’s general cluelessness about most things in general, but when it comes to domestic energy production, I find myself wondering if anyone who works for the current Executive branch, from the...
by Didact | Feb 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything. — G. K. Chesterton Among the many- far too many- books that I find myself reading at any given time, one of the most interesting,...
by Didact | Jan 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Uh… it does? As mentioned in my review of David P. Goldman’s book, How Civilisations Die (and Why Islam is Dying Too), the author, better known as the online conservative columnist Spengler, peppered that same book with a series of thought-provoking...
by Didact | Jan 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Not too long ago I wrote a post about free trade and I mentioned something in passing that I think needs some elaboration. I stated that India followed openly socialistic policies designed to produce self-sufficiency in most basic goods and services from the time of...
by Didact | Jan 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
The next few years (or decades) could be very, very cold: The Sun’s activity is at its lowest for 100 years, scientists have warned. They say the conditions are eerily similar to those before the Maunder Minimum, a time in 1645 when a mini ice age hit,...
by Didact | Jan 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Normally I rather enjoy Cracked.com’s highly irreverent and thoroughly offbeat commentary on issues large and small. Recently, however, they published a list that purported to show how hard life is for women in the military, and I have to say that I got more...
by Didact | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Yet for some reason, some bird named Beyonce Knowles is thoroughly puzzled as to why this vexing situation should exist: The Grammy-award winner signed the essay using her hyphenated married name, Beyonce Knowles-Carter. ‘Humanity requires both men and...
by Didact | Jan 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
Evil bastards and loonies they may well be, but in their own minds, at least, they mean well: A campaign for the European Union to become a “United States of Europe” will be the “best weapon against the Eurosceptics”, one of...
by Didact | Jan 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s very rare for an American politician, of any party, to speak truthfully in public these days. I have a few minor differences with Col. Allen West (US Army, Ret.), but for the most part I’d say he’s one of the few genuine conservatives who really...
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