Sir Robert McClure, his ship trapped in Arctic ice in 1853 during a search for John Franklin’s lost expedition, encounters the member of another search expedition, this one coming to his rescue. From McClure’s journal: While walking near the ship, in conversation with the first lieutenant upon the subject of digging the grave for the [...]
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Notable & Quotable
Posted in Notable and quotable on March 11, 2010 |
Devaluing the Nobel.
Posted in Editorials and opinion, Notable and quotable, Politics on December 17, 2009 |
Bonnie Erbe, host of PBS’s “To The Contrary,” writing at PoliticsDaily.com on liberal dissatisfaction with President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 14: If only the Nobel Committee and the American voting public had dug a bit deeper before they endorsed Obama, they might not have been so surprised when he morphed into an unexpected type [...]
Genesis on the Great Flood.
Posted in Notable and quotable on September 17, 2009 |
Genesis 7:17-23, in the King James Version: And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And [...]
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant.
Posted in Notable and quotable on September 17, 2009 |
Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek in “The Constitution of Liberty” All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in [...]
