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is the blog of an Orthodox Christian and is published under the spiritual patronage of St. John of San Francisco. Topics likely to be discussed include matters relating to Orthodoxy as well as other religious confessions, politics, economics, social issues, current events or anything else which interests me. © 2006-2026

Sunday, February 15, 2026

In the News 02-15-2026

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Noem boasts of Trump administration ensuring ‘we have the right people voting’ ahead of midterms Grand juries take on growing importance ami...

Prayers please...

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Fr.. Z's mother has reposed. In your mercy please for the repose of her soul. Having recently experienced the same loss, I extend my de...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

How Virginia's top court might decide Democrats' gerrymandering fate

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Virginia Democrats are moving forward with plans to gerrymander their way to four more congressional seats — but they need help from the sta...

Baseball's Salary Wars Are About to Go Nuclear

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Kyle Tucker THERE IS A group of fans who are angry at baseball. There are a lot of them, and they do not exist only on social media. They ar...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

What Trump Is the Best at, Hands Down

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President Trump is unrivaled in American history in one respect: None of his predecessors ever cashed in on the presidency as he has. The Te...
Monday, February 09, 2026

Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump (link corrected)

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Libertarians can be annoying, with our constant bellyaching about privacy and taxes, our obsession with the First Amendment and our fearmong...
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The Corrupt Pardon at the Center of Trump’s UAE Windfall

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As forecast in the first post in this series, let’s turn to Changpeng Zhao, known to his crypto confederates as “CZ.” Even before the Wall S...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

Demanding Political Loyalty, Trump's DOJ Struggles With Staffing

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Chad Mizelle, a former chief of staff to Attorney General Pam Bondi, hung an online help wanted sign for federal prosecutors last weekend th...
Friday, February 06, 2026

Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing rail tunnel funds

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Trump administration officials made it known to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that the president would release federal funds for a ma...
Thursday, February 05, 2026

Bitcoin down almost half from its highs

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Bitcoin’s plunge accelerated on Thursday, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency fell more than 10% to below $66,000 in afternoon trading, a ...
Monday, February 02, 2026

Marjorie Taylor Greene: 'MAGA was a lie.'

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Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said President Trump’s Make American Great Again slogan was a “lie,” saying his first year back i...
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Trump Calls on Republicans to "Nationalize" Elections

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President Donald Trump said Monday that Republicans should nationalize elections, continuing to double down on false conspiracy theories abo...

On a lighter note...

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Folks are having a lot of fun at Florida's expense with the recent cold snap down there.  Read the rest here .

SSPX Plans to Consecrate Bishops (again)

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No surprise really. Of the four bishop's Lefebvre consecrated (illicitly under Catholic canon law) back in 1988, two have reposed, one a...
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One of the world’s best universities has been captured by trans-obsessed zealots

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I came to Cambridge because I wanted to learn how to think, not what to think: how to weigh arguments, test premises, spot evasions and foll...
Sunday, February 01, 2026

Democrat wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in special election upset

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Democrat and machinist union leader Taylor Rehmet won the special election Saturday to represent a solidly red Texas Senate district that Pr...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Thom Tillis Compares Noem to Dolores Umbridge, Stephen Miller to Grima Wormtongue

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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) compared Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller to fictional...

The federal debt is a stealth tax on every American

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In response to concerns about affordability, President Trump proposed capping interest rates on credit cards at 10 percent. But the federal ...
Friday, January 30, 2026

Gold Corrects and Silver Crashes

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What a difference a day makes. Gold off 8% and Silver down ~30%. Both still up YTD. Not terribly surprised. Both metals were basically going...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Goldman Sachs was right.

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Last month they predicted that gold could hit $5,400 by the end of 2026. It closed today at $5,474/oz. (11 months early).

The Second Amendment Is Meaningless If the Government Can Kill You for Exercising It

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What a difference four days can make. Last Tuesday, a top DOJ lawyer argued in the Supreme Court that people have a right to carry guns in p...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Hawaii’s Shocking Legal Argument Against the Second Amendment

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This past Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Wolford v. Lopez, the Second Amendment case out of Hawaii in which the Aloha St...
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Gold is the New Trump Trade

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https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-gold-rally-risk
Monday, January 26, 2026

Foreign Investment in the US is Collapsing

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