Daily Archives: July 24, 2012

Newt Gingrich’s To Save America 6: Economic Rules?

Posted on July 24, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

In my latest reading of To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular Socialist Machine, Newt Gingrich argues that tax cuts stimulate the economy, encourage economic mobility, and increase revenue.  Newt looks at the Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush II tax cuts, and … Continue reading →

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Sally Ride on Touched by an Angel

Posted on July 24, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

Astronaut Sally Ride has passed on.  She appeared on a Touched by an Angel episode, and  here’s a summary of it, with pictures of Sally!

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Boswell and His Critics

Posted on July 24, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

I finished John Boswell’s Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, and I also read critiques of the book (see here).  If you want to study the issue further, I recommend Boswell’s book and also the critiques, which are quite scholarly.  In … Continue reading →

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