Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Yesterday's Vote

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Move over Ronald Reagan. I am convinced that the modern Republican party has a new idol. Or more correctly three. Smoot, Hawley and Hoov...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Time to Kill the Happy Talk

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To ward off panics, financial media organizations are keeping Un-Happy Talk to a minimum. "We're very careful not to throw words ar...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Background on a photograph

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One year ago today I attached the above photograph to a post about the anticipated visit to New York City by the ocean liners Queen Elizabe...

President Obama & Vice President Palin?

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The nightmare scenario of more than a few is not beyond the realm of possibility. President Obama, with Vice President Palin? President Bide...
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Quote of the day...

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Haue you not reason then to bee ashamed, and to forbeare this filthie noueltie, so basely grounded, so foolishly receiued and so grossely mi...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Did We Just Dodge A Bullet?

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I think we did. Mr. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had made an urgent and unusual evening visit to Capitol Hill, and t...

An Old Believer Village in Alaska

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Large Scale Federal Intervention On the Way?

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As I am typing the chairman of the Federal Reserve, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the bi-partisan leadership from both houses of Congre...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

A Record That Will Not Be Broken

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Those who have read this blog for a while or who may know me personally will be aware that I am not a fan of the other team from New York. ...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

A Warning Unheeded?

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From June 19th 2008 The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to brace for a full-fledged crash in global stock and credit markets over...
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Monday, September 15, 2008

Islamic Law in Britain

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ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases. The government has quietl...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

Wall Street Bracing

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From today's New York Times Nation’s Financial Industry Gripped by Fear Fear and greed are the stuff that Wall Street is made of. But in...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

What's wrong with this picture?

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Hat tip to Ken over at Hallowed Ground . Yes. That's an Orthodox bishop in a Romanian Orthodox Church. For the record, I have a rather ...
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Lest we forget...

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May the memory of those lost on 9-11 be eternal.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

An Appeal for Charity

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Fellow blogger Perry Robinson of Energetic Procession (listed in the sidebar) is in dire financial straits . This seems to be going around...

The odd choices in Barack Obama's career

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It's time to throw my hat in the ring as regards predicting the election results. So here it is: Barack Obama will be defeated. Seriousl...
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Monday, September 08, 2008

Scientology On Trial For Fraud

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The Church of Scientology in France will be tried in court for "organised fraud", according to legal sources. From the BBC
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Media Bias? What Media Bias?

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When the New York Times (!) calls you out for leftward slanted news coverage you know the game is up.
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Saturday, September 06, 2008

Robert Novak: Dealing With Terminal Cancer

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Many people have asked me how I first realized I was suffering from a brain tumor and what I have done about it. The first sign that I was i...
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Thursday, September 04, 2008

The beginning of the end...

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I am not going to dwell on this. However since I have taken note of the unfortunate problems in the OCA's central administration and ha...