Trivia - Page 2

bhkad · #11 (**permalink**) 10-13-2007, 09:11 AM

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When people think seriously, they think abstractly; they conjure up simplified pictures of reality called concepts, theories, models, paradigms. Without such intellectual constructs, there is, William James said, only "a bloomin' buzzin' confusion." Intellectual and scientific advance, as Thomas Kuhn showed in his classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, consists of the displacement of one paradigm, which has become increasingly incapable of explaining new or newly discovered facts, by a new paradigm that accounts for those facts in a more satisfactory fashion. "To be accepted as a paradigm," Kuhn wrote, "a theory must seem better than its competitors, but it need not, and in fact never does, explain all the facts with which it can be confronted."

SAMUEL HUNTINGTON

bhkad · #12 (**permalink**) 10-14-2007, 08:11 PM

On BookTV/C-Span2, author Eric Lane just said that in a study of term limits in NYC, 51 office holders were leaving office because of term limits and NONE of them had come from the private sector to serve in government and NONE of them were returning to the private sector.

They were all going to seek some other elected office.

Let's keep that in mind when the subject of term limits arises. The idealist's conception of Term Limits doesn't match the reality, at least not in Eric Lane's example.

http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?P...=&PlayMedia=No

bhkad · #13 (**permalink**) 10-15-2007, 03:16 AM

Here's a three hour Book TV - In Depth Interview with David Horowitz.

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In Depth: David Horowitz

Watch now!
About the Program

Our guest for In Depth on Sunday, October 7th (LIVE Noon-3pm ET) is David Horowitz. Mr. Horowitz is the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture) and the publisher of FrontPage Magazine. Mr. Horowitz's books include: "Destructive Generation" (with Peter Collier), "Radical Son," "Uncivil Wars," and "Unholy Alliances." His most recent books are "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" and "Indoctrination U:The Left's War Against Academic Freedom." For more, visit: horowitzfreedomcenter.org.

http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?P...&PlayMedia=Yes

bhkad · #14 (**permalink**) 10-15-2007, 01:38 PM

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What you have just read is an outline of early Jewish history.

http://home.cfl.rr.com/crossland/Anc...s/hebrews.html

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