Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Memory Eternal: William F. Buckley Jr.

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Bill Buckley has reposed at the age of 82. Words fail me. Read the NY Times obituary here.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Wisconsin

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It’s not the end. But it’s the beginning of the end. Hillary is running out of time and opportunities to recover from an ever increasing d...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Serbia

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As we approach the Great Fast, I expect my posting to be less frequent. I will of course continue to monitor comments and check email. In ...
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Saturday, February 09, 2008

Quote of the day...

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"I'm not comparing McCain to Hitler. Hitler had a coherent tax policy." -Ann Coulter in remarks to the CPAC Convention earlie...
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Friday, February 08, 2008

The Republican Naderites

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John McCain effectively sealed the GOP nomination for the presidency of the United States yesterday with the withdrawal of Gov. Romney. Thi...
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Monday, February 04, 2008

Shrove (Fat) Tuesday

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Tuesday is primary election day for probably more than half of all Americans. In New York it is also the day they will throw a ticker tape ...

About that football game...

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It got pretty crazy in Times Square as the Giants won. My hat is off to the New York Giants. I am of course not a football fan and until ye...
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John McCain & the Conservatives

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This from Bill Kristol... This is an important moment for the conservative movement. Not because conservatives have some sort of obligation...
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Sunday, February 03, 2008

Some Super Predictions...

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Obama and Clinton will come really close to a draw on Super Tuesday. I anticipate an already very close race will get tighter. This one co...
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Saturday, February 02, 2008

Rod Dreher on L' Affair OCA

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Rod Dreher of The Crunchy Con blog (a recent convert to Orthodoxy) has posted an interesting piece on the current troubles in the OCA. I...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Memory Eternal: Margaret Truman Daniel

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Margaret Truman Daniel, the only child of former President Harry S. Truman has reposed at age 83. She gained fame as an accomplished singer...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Thoughts from New Hampshire on Hillary Clinton's Florida Victory

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From the Manchester Union Leader's editorial page ... COURTING VOTERS in Iowa and New Hampshire, last August Sen. Hillary Clinton signed...
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75 Years Ago

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January 30th 1933; Adolf Hitler becomes the last Chancellor of the German Weimar Republic and an entire generation of human beings is doomed...
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Monday, January 28, 2008

Memory Eternal: +Christodoulos Archbishop of Athens & All Greece

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Archbishop +Christodoulos of Athens has reposed at the age of 69. As noted here previously His Beatitude had been gravely ill from the canc...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Trad Catholics & Orthodoxy

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From time to time I get comments or questions concerning so called Traditionalist Roman Catholics and their feeling towards Orthodoxy. The...
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And now for a little levity...

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I think there have been enough serious posts lately. It's time for a break. And so in the vain of don't take life or yourself too ...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Fasten your seat belts please...

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Wall Street October 1929 A wave of selling swept through most of the world's financial markets yesterday while the US markets were close...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008

Coming Soon... cigar smoke and back room deals?

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With McCain's win in South Carolina and Romney's in Nevada the race for the GOP nomination continues to get more and more interestin...
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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Le Roi est Mort

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Bobby Fischer winning the 1958 United States Chess Championship at age 14 At age 13 he defeated Donald Byrne an International Grand Master o...
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Friday, January 18, 2008

Yet another example of why...

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capital punishment must be abolished. For 10 years, Leslie P. Smith, a Virginia lawyer, reluctantly kept a secret because the authorities on...