January 2008
Ordered!
The Orthodox Study Bible has been a long time in the making. The Old Testament is translated from the Septuagint, the Greek texts the Orthodox Church has always used, which preserve an older text tradition than the medieval Hebrew Masoretic Text. The release date is February 12, but St Tikhon’s Seminary Press says they’ve got it in stock. It’s ordered… Commence breathless...
Anybody seen our gold?
“The gold reserves of the United States have not been independently audited for half a century,” the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee charges in a full-page advertisement set to appear in the Wall Street Journal. View GATA’s full-page color ad in The Wall Street Journal and explore its documentation
Competing currencies
Do You Want To Be Paid In Rockefellers? In Wristons? Or How About A Hayek? The Fed’s new critics think the government should be out of the money business altogether. They argue that money could and should be provided competitively by the private sector — just like baked beans, business magazines or any other goods. Read the rest…
Dear Kitty: You're fired!
New York City wants to ban Geiger counters
The Village Voice reports: Richard Falkenrath, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for counterterrorism, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have asked the City Council to pass a law requiring anyone who wants to own such detectors to get a permit from the police first. Want to test for pollution in low-income neighborhoods with high rates of childhood asthma? Gotta ask the cops for permission. Why? So...
"The War Prayer" by Mark Twain →
"War is the health of the state" -- Randolph... →
Eleventh hour
Kathy DiFiore recounts a meeting with then-President Ronald Reagan. Reagan said: “I received a letter from a widow whose husband was killed in World War II and whose son is now in the military. She had this and sent it to me. You don’t mind if I read it to you. This is the translation of a prayer found on a young Russian soldier, killed in action in 1944 whose name was Alexandr...
Do's and don'ts with babies
Wow, I’ve been doing it wrong all this time. Read the rest…
Black flight: terrorist groups pushing blacks out... →
Who makes minimum wage?
Russ Roberts at Cafe Hayek says that his students typically think that about 20% of the American labor force is employed at the minimum wage, when the actual percentage of minimum wage workers (1.7 million) was only 2.2% of all hourly-paid workers (76.5 million) in 2006, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, hourly-paid workers (76.5 million) are only about half of the total...
'Yo' Being Used As 'Gender-Neutral Pronoun'
Street term ‘Yo’ is being used by kids as a gender-neutral replacement for ‘he’ and ‘she’, according to researchers. Language experts in the US say since at least 2004 students have been saying “yo” as a substitute for gender specific pronouns and the trend is growing. … Dennis Baron, a professor of English and linguistics at the...
Dream Dollars
I love a well-fleshed-out fantasy world. Dream Dollars uses the medium of currency to tell a story about the history and mysterious disappearance of the Nadiran colony in Antarctica. The art is lushly imagined and executed. Check it out: www.dream-dollars.com