Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Fred Rich And His Orchestra - I'm Wishing (1938)

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Monday, July 29, 2024

The Evolution of the Republican Party Under Donald Trump

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...During the time I served in three Republican administrations (Reagan and both Bushes), the party was hawkish and unrelentingly critical o...

The state of the Republican Party in one image

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Venezuela

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Friday, July 26, 2024

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev is suspended

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Read the full story here . HT: Blog reader John L. My thoughts... This is disturbing. Hilarion has a reputation as a staunch theological con...
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Thursday, July 25, 2024

Religious Liberty in the States

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Read the report here . 
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Biden bows out

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I don't think anyone needed a crystal ball to see that this was all but inevitable. On a human level I feel kinda bad for the man. But p...
Friday, July 19, 2024

The Republican Convention

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“What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult or a corporation.” — Eric Hoffer, “The Temper of Our Time” (1967) Well...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Who has shaped JD Vance's World View?

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In a political party whose populist base has come to embrace conspiracy theorism coupled with a deep suspicion of intellectuals, who are gen...

The Debt Delusion: Why Modern Monetary Theory Is a Luxury Belief

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While Fed Chair Jerome Powell made the rounds on Capitol Hill this week, discussions about the Federal Reserve’s expectations for inflation ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Peter III of Antioch, the Filioque and Rome

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Not going to excerpt this one. But it's well worth the read . 

J D Vance and the triumph of the isolationists

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MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump didn’t just select a running mate here – he doused political kerosene on the raging Republican fir...

Some really bad numbers for Biden

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There has been much talk lately about Biden's sinking poll numbers since the debate. Generally speaking, Democrats seem to already be co...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Russia: The brutal cost of Putin's war

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Lies, damned lies, and statistics. If anyone knows how to falsify figures to bolster weak causes, it is the Kremlin.  From Stalin’s manipula...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

Trump v. US: With Great Power Comes Great Immunity

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I have no end of uncharitable thoughts about recent American presidents; yet, when I’m cataloging their sins, the words “undue caution” have...

Prayers please

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For all those effected by yesterday's violence. Lord have mercy!
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Friday, July 12, 2024

Why Is the U.S. Still Pretending We Know Gender-Affirming Care Works?

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Imagine a comprehensive review of research on a treatment for children found “remarkably weak evidence” that it was effective. Now imagine t...
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Thursday, July 11, 2024

US & NATO accuse Russia of assassination plots and sabotage

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US intelligence discovered earlier this year that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German arm...
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Monday, July 08, 2024

Is Germany’s church tax ‘miracle’ over?

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Each year, the journalist Peter Winnemöller noted, hundreds of thousands of people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany. But year af...
Friday, July 05, 2024

Cato Institute: The Court Went Too Far on Presidential Immunity

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In Trump v. US, a majority of the Supreme Court has laid down an astonishingly broad view of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution...