Category: News and Commentary

It Has Been a While…

 William  September 30, 2008  3 Comments on It Has Been a While…

Some people blog because they need to write. Some have no other creative outlet. Others do it as part of their life’s framework, as part of their daily work. I began doing it to force myself to write in a…

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More Butterflies And Tipping Points: Memes

 William  October 3, 2007

Internet self-publishing (blogs and personal web sites) has introduced a genuine element of volatility into the cultural/political/civilization system we all share. This happens as memes (A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted…

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Trust In Dangerous Places

 William  October 17, 2005  3 Comments on Trust In Dangerous Places

I don’t often write on political issues, but sometimes I come across something that puts a current affair into such clarity that I say, “Well that changes how I see that.” That happened to me today as I read the…

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Touchdown!

 William  August 9, 2005

Praise God from whom all blessings flow for the safe return of the Discovery crew. We had touchdown at Andrews Air Force Base this morning at 8:11 EDT. There were visible sighs of relief from the news people (I was…

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Liftoff!

 William  July 26, 2005

Discovery is off. At 10:39 a.m. EDT the shuttle Discovery lifted off from Launch Pad 39B on the historic Return to Flight mission STS-114. As the nomenclature shows this is the 114th Space Shuttle flight. It is also the 31st…

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Look At Me; Ain’t I Wonderful?

 William  June 3, 2005  2 Comments on Look At Me; Ain’t I Wonderful?

If you haven’t read it already, you owe it to yourself to the read the May 26, 2005 column of Peggy Noonan. The focus of her column is the gang of fourteen, those six Democrat and six Republican Senators who…

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Butterflies And Tipping Points

 William  March 28, 2005  9 Comments on Butterflies And Tipping Points

Matt Wrechard at the Belmont Club has been characterizing the Terri Shiavo situation as a “butterfly effect” in that it will have far reaching and currently unknown effects well beyond its absolute significance. One specific section at the end of…

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Political Correctness Turning Universities Into New Cloisters

 William  February 28, 2005

Peggy Noonan is often an insightful commentator. Her last Wall Street Journal piece, I’ll Link to That, comments on several current events, but the one that struck me was her observation on the ongoing flap surrounding Larry Summers, the president…

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A Clarion Call To Prayer

 William  October 26, 2004  1 Comment on A Clarion Call To Prayer

Hello! Welcome. Lend me your ear for a moment. Now that I have your attention I want to issue a sincere call to all Christians. I ask that you please pass this clarion onto everyone you know who calls Jesus…

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Debating The Debate: Part 2

 William  October 14, 2004  1 Comment on Debating The Debate: Part 2

In a column right after the first Presidential debate, a friend of mine, Mark Thomas, stood in for me and commented on what he saw as the salient points of the evening (Debating The Debate). There was only one comment…

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