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Languages ultimately survive (or not) depending on whether there are enough people interested in learning them. Ancient Greek, unlike Latin, has the advantage of large numbers of Biblical students studying it, so they can read the Septuagint. If Latin had a literature that motivated a large number of students, as the Septuagint does for Greek, it would be studied much more widely. When the Catholic Church allowed vernacular different Read More...

Just reading the comments to this article, full of resume references to hate and vitriol, make it clear how some unbalanced, weakminded person could get caught up in it all and do something as terrible as what happened in AZ. I wonder what scope of tragedy will be required to get everyone to take a moment and consider just how they sound and what their words might incite. Clearly, it'll take more than 6 deaths and several injuries Read More...

I think you putting a dog to sleepre the one that needs an intelligence infusion. I am not rich. I am one of the 6% you whine about not getting their fair share. However....I am VERY happy with what I have earned and achieved during this time. I have a nice home, three cars, two children in private school, and take nice vacations and enjoy my life. I am doing well. I am happy. I am 6%!! I doubt your numbers are very accurate but Read More...

And how many of those errors were in your favor? Are you naive enough to actually think that this is accidental? The subprime business model involved not only fraud in business in the origination, but fraud in the servicing, as well. And when a business enterprise engages in egregious fraud in origination, closing and servicing of mortgages, WHY would anyone find it surprising that they engaged in fraud in foreclosure, as well? Read More...

Right, Mr. Andrews---good insight. And although Mr. Rangel sounds okay through most of the interview, at the end of the interview, Mr. Rangel said the most important thing for him was how to prepare for an interview convince Hispanics (Latinos) to register to vote, then actually vote in every election. I wonder who these folks will be encouraged by people like Mr. Rangel to vote for? I think we know the answer. What I resent is Read More...

Well if Perry is causing the lefties to freak out, then he must be good. I am still waiting for some debates to see how can we be lovers he handles these questions. You know the tough questions are coming, when I see what he has to say then I will make my final decision. I still think you Obama lovers need to quit worrying about who the Republicans are nominating, even though anyone of them can beat him, you should be thinking about Read More...

This sort of thing happens routinely in basketball - how to motivate a team often do you witness, at the end of a game, one team trying furiously to foul the opposing team in order to send the fouled player to the free-throw line, in an attempt to capitalize on statistically lower free-throw shooting percentages? How about in baseball, where a batter on a hot streak is intentionally walked - i.e. not even given a chance to hit the Read More...

Mr. Sloan - At least this newspaper still gives readers like you an opportunity to rebut what's said in the OpEd pieces. But here you are wasting everyone's time blathering on about how to improve communication skills far the WSJ has fallen - INSTEAD of using the opportunity to make a substantive argument. Not one word in your comment about a factual error or an illogical conclusion in Rush's piece, just blather about how much Read More...

Finally, some light at the end of the tunnel. These are jobs that can't be outsourced, but we desperately need the skilled workers at home. I agree that we don the job training programs't turn out enough people skilled in science and math. That having been said, I think that this is an area that can be corrected, especially if some of these companies start to offer training programs of their own. Further, jobs like this, that pay Read More...

It's still hard to believe how and why america descended into the abyss of history so quickly (couldn't even go 300 years), but it's true. Now China which has been slowly and methodically building up a great financial and military power for decades is heading towards disaster as well. From a Christian and Biblical perspective, the very last book of the bible displays a futuristic but none the less disturbing picture revealing not Read More...