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George Will on the Discovery of DNA
A couple of years ago, George Will wrote an opinion piece on the importance of pure science. He took his topic from a recent book by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the current director of the Institute for Advanced Study, in which he reprinted Abraham Flexner’s famous essay on pure scientific research (The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge) and included an essay of his own, a plea for improved funding of pure research (engaging essays both, and worth reading).
The thing that most struck me about Mr. Will’s opinion piece, which he gleaned from a very brief comment to the same effect by Dijkgraaf, is that he considered as the most important discovery due to pure scientific research, with no thought for the utility of the discovery, the 1953 discovery by Watson and Crick of the double-helical structure of DNA and the genetic code.
Democrats are not trying to hide their totalitarian intentions anymore. We are without excuse if we let them win what will be the last free and roughly fair election in any of our lifetimes. The Supreme Court will either swing back to preserving our constitutional republic, led by Justice Thomas and the Courageous ACB, or it will be the implement of our destruction, with at least 6 leftists plus the craven fool Roberts gutting the Constitution and affirming socialist tyranny not by bullets, at first, but by rigging our electoral system. Between imposing voting laws that favor Democrat ballot box stuffing and stuffing the Senate with two to four new permanent Democrat members, from the new states of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, the Democrats said the quiet things out loud. There is not next time, not really. There is no “when Republicans get back in power.” Consider the Democrats’ response to a Republican president actually taking his campaign promises seriously and doing what every Republican since Reagan has promised.
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My first spiritual mentor was a recent seminary graduate serving as the youth pastor of my first church. He spent a lot of time with our little youth ministry team teaching us how to study scripture, introducing us to the great classics, and challenging us with intellectually difficult homework assignments.
Over at National Review, Conrad Black has 
With the avalanche of evidence coming out about Joe Biden’s corruption, I wondered how CNN would attempt to put a positive spin on such negative information about their candidate. I went to CNN.com, and found the home screen pictured at right. (I love the neutral, non-partisan, nothing-but-the-facts headline.) I then scrolled all the way down through their entire homepage, and I found Trump’s picture seven times, all in negative stories like, “New York Times: Tax records show Trump had over $270 million in debt forgiven after failing to repay lenders” and “Acosta asks Trump: Did you blow it on COVID-19?” and “Anderson Cooper: We are witnessing dishonesty the likes of which no one has seen before” and so on and so on. There is a picture of an angry Barack Obama (“Obama slams Trump…”). There are also stories about wildfires, Borat, Jamie Foxx’s sister, the Supreme Court, the former king of Belgium, matte lipstick, BLM protests, and so on and so on.
A bit of correspondence from a young friend:
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