Friday, August 22, 2025
The Threat to Madisonian Democracy
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Archbishop Alexei of Alaska (OCA) Meets Putin; Sparking Criticism
See here, and here. Unless you are calling the man to repentance, I fail to see any justification for a prominent hierarch to meet with an indicted war criminal and almost certainly a murderer many times over. It reminds me of the old days when prominent Catholic clergy were openly cozy with Mafia bosses. To say that this was ill advised would be a gross understatement.
HT: Deacon Nicholas
In the news
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
RIP Pretty Girl
How I wish I could complain one more time about tripping over your toys or your habit of sprawling on top of the AC vent on hot days. To have you sit down next to me and poke me with your nose at the dinner table, begging for a bite of my supper. In all our years together, today was the first time you hurt me.
Friday, August 15, 2025
Why Democrats are in trouble, and what I think they should do if they want to start winning again
How the War Ended from Japan's Perspective
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Vigil for the Feast of the Dormition
Trump is lobbying for a Nobel
Saturday, August 09, 2025
Reflections on the Decline of Civil Discourse
A Photographic Tour of 19th Century Colonial Hong Kong
Friday, August 08, 2025
Peace for our time
Thursday, August 07, 2025
A Trip Across America (mid 1930s)
Tuesday, August 05, 2025
A quick admin note
Monday, August 04, 2025
Saturday, August 02, 2025
America's Slide Into Authoritarianism is Accelerating
Friday, August 01, 2025
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Trump's tariffs are the greatest act of economic and political self-harm in modern American History
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Trump Administration to Allow Proselytizing in Federal Work Place
Monday, July 28, 2025
Imperial Japan's last veterans are speaking out
Sunday, July 27, 2025
A quiet mutiny is brewing in the Israeli Army
Friday, July 25, 2025
And now for something a little lighter
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
With Obama in His Sights; Trump's Revenge Agenda Gains Momentum
Monday, July 21, 2025
The Final Tally on Trump's Big Beautiful Bill
Foreign investors buy nearly 100 billion in euro zone debt
Monday, July 14, 2025
The New York Mayoral Election
Sunday, July 13, 2025
The MAGA Civil War Over a Conspiracy Theory
Friday, July 11, 2025
Trump's Witch-hunt at the Federal Reserve
Wednesday, July 09, 2025
Various 07-09-25
Monday, July 07, 2025
Life at St. Tikhon's Monastery
Friday, July 04, 2025
Thursday, July 03, 2025
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Trump has dropped a big, beautiful bomb on America’s economy
Wednesday, July 02, 2025
Did Pope Francis Lie?
Tuesday, July 01, 2025
The Dangerous Mythology of Central Banks (and out of control debt)
Monday, June 30, 2025
Tucker Carlson vs Ted Cruz (what we didn't get to see)
Friday, June 27, 2025
Europe considers global free trade pact (without America)
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Andrew Sullivan Takes on the Extremism in the Alphabet+ Movement
Zohran Mamdani’s Victory in NYC Rattles Wall Street
Monday, June 23, 2025
Food for thought
Coal miners used to form study groups to read Gibbon & Thucydides. Lincoln and Douglas delivered speeches that lasted three hours with no pauses. C. S. Lewis, like many kids of his era, read Paradise Lost at age nine and was translating Homer by sixteen. The brain rot is real. https://t.co/Wr1eHVBJRv
— Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙♀️ (@SketchesbyBoze) June 22, 2025
HT: Fr. Z
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Greek Orthodox Church Bombed in Syria
Dr. Tighe on the Decline & Fall of the Old Catholics
Putin's War: One Million Russian Casualties
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Pope Leo XIV brings back another tradition
It may seem like a trivial matter, but Pope Leo XIV plans to take some time off during the dog days of summer. His predecessor, Pope Francis, was a notorious workaholic. Unless ill, he rarely took time off and he never took a vacation during his papacy. It also appears he didn't want any of his successors to take any down time. Prior to his papacy it had been customary for the pope to retire to their summer residence at Castel Gandolfo for a few weeks each year in order to escape Rome's brutal heat. During that time the Vatican often slowed down with curia and staff taking summer holidays. The summer residence has a lot of history in its own right. Benedict XVI went there after his abdication to await the election of his successor. Two popes, Pius XII and Paul VI died there. And during the Second World War the Vatican hid large numbers of refugees including Jews from the Nazis in the summer palace. But Francis tried to put a stop to its use. He ordered the place converted into a museum and never spent a night there, visiting only twice for a couple of hours. In a bit of a return to normalcy, the Holy See has announced the new pope plans to revive the old custom and spend a couple of weeks at Castel Gandolfo this July.
Friday, June 13, 2025
Star Trek (the red version)
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
On the Next Archbishop of Canterbury
Sunday, June 08, 2025
Germany May Revive the Draft
W's Crystal Ball
George W. Bush called out the MAGA agenda years before Trump rode down that escalator. pic.twitter.com/17U0d1DkBy
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 7, 2025
I've had my differences with George Bush, but he nailed this one.
Friday, June 06, 2025
ALLIED ARMIES LAND ON COAST OF FRANCE. GREAT INVASION OF CONTINENT BEGINS
It's almost impossible to imagine what it was like on the home front June 6, 1944. But you can get an idea by listening to some of the wall to wall news coverage that was broadcast periodically interrupted by patriotic music and prayer from famous clergy and FDR. It must have been gut wrenching for families with loved ones in the service. Radio coverage...
CBS
NBC
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Catholics, Trump and Russia
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Trump's Assault on the Rule of Law via Abuse of the Pardon
Urgent Prayers
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
I promise you free this, that, and the other thing.
Monday, May 26, 2025
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Why King Charles III is Opening Canada's Parliament
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Traveling
Mr. Biden
Politically, it would be helpful if the Democrats did not nominate a man who is in his 80's, with the demeanor of a man in in his 90s.Seriously. Can we take a moment to address the elephant in the living room? Life expectancy for the average adult male in the US is 77(ish). If he is re-elected, he would be almost ten years beyond that point at the end of his second term of office. Even assuming he is in excellent health for a man of his age, and I have no reason to believe he isn't, you just cannot make safe assumptions about someone's long term health once they get into their 80s. Given his age and the average life expectancy of people who do make it into their early 80s, statistics suggest that the odds of Mr. Biden being able to complete another four years as president are not good. Once you get to that age, things do start to go wrong.I think we would have to go back to 1944 for the last time a major party nominated someone who was less likely to be able to serve a full four-year term as president. And in fact, FDR died just months into his fourth term. I don't know who the next president will be. But if Mr. Biden wins the election; I suspect the next president after him will be Kamala Harris.
The Grifter N Chief
Friday, May 16, 2025
Moody's Downgrades US Credit Rating
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Perks now, pain later
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
What I'm Reading
Sunday, May 11, 2025
The Most Corrupt President in US History (Yet Again)
Friday, May 09, 2025
Trump Considering Suspension of Habeus Corpus
The Attack on Freedom of Speech
Thursday, May 08, 2025
Leo XIV
I'm not easily stunned, but this time I am. He wasn't even on my radar. And he is an American. I know almost nothing about him. Two slightly encouraging signs.... he came out dressed like a newly elected pope (unlike his predecessor). And his papal name is a good one. Leo XIII was a great champion of the poor and working class, but also doctrinally (small 'o') orthodox.