Ad Orientem

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

Thursday, January 01, 2026

2026

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Being honest, 2025 is not a year I will look back on with much fondness. Wishing everyone a very happy and prosperous new year.
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Russian Casualties Continue to Rise

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Over the past 10 months, Russian losses in the war with Ukraine have been growing faster than any time since the start of the full-scale inv...
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Saturday, December 27, 2025

Lessons of the Heritage Foundation's Implosion

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Over the last two days, there has been a massive wave of resignations and departures of scholars and staff from the Heritage Foundation, onc...

Army chief says Switzerland can't defend itself from full-scale attack

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ZURICH, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Switzerland cannot defend itself against a full-scale attack and must boost military spending given rising risks ...

Argentina's Congress approves 2026 budget, first under Milei

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BUENOS AIRES, Dec 26 - Argentina's Congress passed the 2026 budget on Friday, the first approved by legislators since President Javier M...

Military Folly: The Trump Class "Battleships"

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Trump Announces New Class of Battleships Despite Century of Evidence Proving the Large Warships Are Obsolete The ‘Trump-class’ battleship fa...

Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving

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Billionaires including Peter Thiel, the tech venture capitalist, and Larry Page, a co-founder of Google, are considering cutting or reducing...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

The History of the British Christmas Pudding

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Christmas Liturgy

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Monday, December 22, 2025

Anglican priests are fleeing to Catholicism

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Father Matthew Topham, priest-in-charge of St Mary’s, East Hendred in Oxfordshire, is acutely conscious of the weight of Reformation history...

Gold and Silver Rise Sharply

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Gold and silver prices soared to new highs on Monday. Gold was last seen at a record $4,445.8 per ounce while spot gold was last trading at ...

Reps. Khanna and Massie considering inherent contempt against Bondi

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Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said Sunday they are committed to holding Justice Department officials accountable for ...

Trump Appoints Special Envoy to Greenland, Further Angering Denmark

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U.S. President Donald Trump appointed Louisiana’s governor as Washington’s special envoy to Greenland, reigniting a fight over the fate of t...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Democrats are united in bashing GOP on Obamacare. Medicare for All could reopen a rift.

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Progressives are pushing Medicare for All in some of the Democratic Party’s most competitive Senate primaries next year, threatening the uni...

France Prepares for Russia as US Withdraws

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Paris has long worried the United States was an unreliable partner. Donald Trump is proving them right... ...Trump continues to antagonize t...

UK: Pubs go to war with the Labour Party

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abour MPs heading back to their constituencies this weekend will do so with a sense of relief that another turbulent term in British politic...
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Thursday, December 18, 2025

Economists are skeptical of new inflation numbers

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Thursday saw the release of a much lighter-than-expected consumer price report for November, breaking from the recent trend of sticky inflat...
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Kennedy Center to be renamed in honor of Donald Trump

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trum...

Canada Offers Assisted Suicide to Patient they Would Not Treat

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Canada’s healthcare system used to be a source of pride for my country. It was regarded as one of the world’s best examples of a publicly-fu...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief

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Though I tend to think it’s usually a waste of space to devote a column to President Trump’s personality — what more is there to say about t...
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Thursday, December 11, 2025

London Police Must Disclose Ties to Freemasonry

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Metropolitan police officers must tell their bosses if they are Freemasons, the force has announced, amid fears membership could be linked t...
Monday, December 08, 2025

NY Times: US Military Superiority is Declining Dangerously

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President Xi Jinping of China has ordered his armed forces to be ready to seize Taiwan by 2027. Though the United States maintains a policy ...

Britain's Defense Buildup: Lots of talk but not so much money

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LONDON — Keir Starmer tore up the script this year to pledge a massive British defense spending hike. So why is the country's military s...
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How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration

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In the weeks after Joseph R. Biden Jr. was elected president, advisers delivered a warning: His approach to immigration could prove disastro...
Friday, December 05, 2025

Vigil for St. Nicholas, December 5th, 2025

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Thursday, December 04, 2025

In the News

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Hegseth boat strike fallout, war crime allegations: What to know  Pete Hegseth ‘pushed top Navy admiral who questioned boat strikes to resig...
Tuesday, December 02, 2025

The Tennessee Special Election

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Today's special election to fill a recently vacated congressional seat in Tennessee has been getting a lot of attention. Normally it wou...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

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He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipmen...
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