Friday, April 26, 2024
Prayers please
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Anti-Trump Legal Pundits Have Been Talking to Each Other (off the record)
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Johnson takes a stand
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Kyrill and the Babylonian Captivity of the Russian Orthodox Church
New York City (what's wrong)
This is a really good video explaining what's wrong with New York from somebody who is obviously not hard right in their politics.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Ben Bernanke Takes Aim at Central Bank Forecasts
Latest Polls: Election is a toss up
Patriarch of the West
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Now this is depressing
I've never seen the point in an automatic transmission. Where is the fun? Sure, it will get you from point A to point B. But so will a bus.
Tuesday, April 09, 2024
The US Stock Market is shrinking. Should we be worried?
Monday, April 08, 2024
The Vatican Says "NO" to Gender Ideology
Gold Hits Record Highs
Gold prices hit a record high for a seventh straight session on Monday, fueled by central bank purchases and geopolitical tensions, while strong economic data failed to dull bullion’s allure.
Saturday, April 06, 2024
Friday, April 05, 2024
Francis and the ‘empty chair’ phase of his pontificate
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
Quote of the day...
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
Before Computers
Checking train reservations at Union Station in 1942. From here. (Click the link for full sized image.)
Monday, April 01, 2024
Memory Eternal
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Israeli High Court Ends Public Subsidies for Ultra-Orthodox Men Who Refuse Military Service
In a step that could have deep political and societal ramifications, the High Court of Justice issued an interim order Thursday evening barring the government from providing funds to ultra-Orthodox yeshivas for students eligible for IDF enlistment — as the legal framework for deferring their military service will no longer exist.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried Gets 25 Years
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
The RNC is now a fully absorbed part of the Trump cult
Russia is murdering Ukrainian POWs
Cancer is becoming more common among the young
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
The Baltimore Bridge Disaster: Who is going to pay?
Monday, March 25, 2024
What Makes a Council Ecumenical?
Sunday, March 24, 2024
This is bizarre
Sunday, March 17, 2024
No Blogging
For the next few days.
Gaza's Suspicious Casualty Figures
"Recently, the Biden administration lent legitimacy to Hamas’ figure. When asked at a House Armed Services Committee hearing last week how many Palestinian women and children have been killed since Oct. 7, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the number was “over 25,000.” The Pentagon quickly clarified that the secretary “was citing an estimate from the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry.” President Biden himself had earlier cited this figure, asserting that “too many, too many of the over 27,000 Palestinians killed in this conflict have been innocent civilians and children, including thousands of children.” The White House also explained that the president “was referring to publicly available data about the total number of casualties.”Here’s the problem with this data: The numbers are not real. That much is obvious to anyone who understands how naturally occurring numbers work. The casualties are not overwhelmingly women and children, and the majority may be Hamas fighters."
Russia's Presidential Election
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Patriarch Neophyte has reposed
RIP Paul Alexander
Paul Alexander has died at 78. You may be forgiven if you haven't heard of him. Neither had I until I stumbled on his obituary. On the surface, Mr. Alexander's life seems fairly ordinary. He went to college, then law school, was admitted to the bar and represented many clients, wrote a book, and in his later years became something of an internet personality. What sets him apart, was that he spent most of the last 72 years of his life living in an iron lung. He was completely paralyzed by polio at the age of six and could only move his head and speak. Mr. Alexander, who might well have had some justification for being bitter at the cruel hand that fate had dealt him, instead decided to make the best of the life he had. He became very good at memorization, vice taking notes, dictated a great deal, and learned to write with a pen taped to his nose with which he was able to type or tap a computer keyboard. At the time of his passing, he was active on social media with more than 300,000 followers.
Paul Alexander holds the record for the longest-lived survivor of polio who had to live in an iron lung and is believed to have been the second to last person still using one.
Memory eternal.
Hollywood's hypocritical (and dangerous) gun culture
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
A Catholic look at the Coptic Church's withdrawal from ecumenical dialogue
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Female Deacons? Just say "no."
There he goes again
Friday, March 08, 2024
When a Big Company Decides Your Skin Color is Problematic
Coptic Orthodox Church Synod Rejects Same-Sex Relations, Suspends Dialogue with Catholics
Wednesday, March 06, 2024
The last time this happened
Monday, March 04, 2024
Saturday, March 02, 2024
NY Times /Siena poll gives Trump 5pt lead
Friday, March 01, 2024
The U.S. national debt is rising by $1 trillion about every 100 days
The death of the Eisenhower-Reagan GOP
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
House Freedom Caucus on Mitch McConnell
Our thoughts are with our Democrat colleagues in the Senate on the retirement of their Co-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (D-Ukraine).
— House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) February 28, 2024
No need to wait till November… Senate Republicans should IMMEDIATELY elect a *Republican* Minority Leader.
My thoughts...
Michigan Fires a Warning Shot Across Biden's Bow
Trump Offers to Post $100 Million Bond While Appealing Civil Judgement
WANTED-
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
The 2024 presidential rankings
It's basically a beauty contest run by leftist academics. But FWIW, here it is. IMO they got the top three and the bottom two right. Everything in between I disagree with, in some cases pretty strongly. That said, I don't rank presidents in order. That's a bit too subjective for my taste. I grade them. Here is my list.
Grades
- A+ GOAT
- A Great
- A- Near Great
- B+ Very Good
- B Good
- B- Good(ish)
- C+ Above Average
- C Average
- C- Below Average
- D+ Poor
- D Bad
- D- Very Bad
- F Catastrophically Bad
- U Unrated
- George Washington: A
- John Adams: C
- Thomas Jefferson: B
- James Madison: C+
- James Monroe: B-
- John Q. Adams C-
- Andrew Jackson D+
- Martin Van Buren C-
- William H. Harrison: U (only in office for 1 month)
- John Tyler: C-
- James K. Polk: B+
- Zachary Taylor: C
- Millard Fillmore: D+
- Franklin Pierce: D
- James Buchannan: F
- Abraham Lincoln: A+
- Andrew Johnson: D-
- Ulysses S. Grant: B-
- Rutheford B. Hayes: C
- James Garfield: U (only in office 6 months and incapacitated for half that)
- Chester Arthur: C+
- Grover Cleveland: B-
- Benjamin Harrison: C
- Grover Cleveland: C+ (2nd term is rated slightly lower than 1st)
- William McKinley: B
- Theodore Roosevelt: A-
- William H. Taft: C+
- Woodrow Wilson: D
- Warren G Harding: C-
- Calvin Coolidge: B
- Herbert Hoover: D+
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: A (mostly on the basis of his war record)
- Harry Truman: B
- Dwight D. Eisenhower: A-
- John F. Kennedy: B-
- Lyndon B. Johnson: C+
- Richard Nixon: D+
- Gerald R. Ford: C
- Jimmy Carter: C-
- Ronald Reagan: A-
- George H. W. Bush: B
- William J. Clinton: C+ (the last fiscally sane president)
- George W. Bush: C-
- Barrack Obama: B-
- Donald J. Trump: F
- Joeseph R. Biden: U (incumbent but not looking too good for future rankings)
Life in the land of long ago
Haircut, a straight razor shave and a shoeshine (1942). With wartime inflation, I am betting that guy was not getting out of there for less than 50 cents. (See link for full sized image)
From here.
Monday, February 26, 2024
Constitutional Law: Originalism vs Traditionalism
Sunday, February 25, 2024
William Lefroy: The English Church Crisis
Friday, February 23, 2024
Trouble at CBS News
Thursday, February 22, 2024
IRS: Wealthy Americans are evading $150 billion in taxes annually
This is bonkers
Monday, February 19, 2024
Europe may be waking up
Friday, February 16, 2024
Alexei Navalny
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Greece legalizes SSM
Russia feared to be eyeing Moldova
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Biden attacked Hur for asking him when his son died. But did it happen?
Brett Stephens: The Isolationist G.O.P., Again
With an eye on Russia, Swedes are embracing the military
Donald Trump's latest acquisition
Monday, February 12, 2024
Terminally ill children in the Netherlands can now be euthanized against their will
"Lightbulb on a dimmer..." the NY Times is questioning Biden's age
Tuesday, February 06, 2024
A Wearying Pontificate Nears Its End
Monday, February 05, 2024
King Charles has cancer
Thursday, February 01, 2024
Political News
- Some polls: Quinnipiac, AP-NORC
- Michigan is going to be a tough sell for Biden
- Trump and Biden campaign finances
- Kari Lake is getting cash from QAnon supporters (cf:QAnon)
- The California Senate Race (California is effectively a one-party state so the only question is which Democrat is going to win.)
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Birth rates continue to decline
FBI issues sober warning on Chinese cyberwarfare capabilities
Some not so great news
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Charles I
Monday, January 29, 2024
IRS contractor who leaked Trump's taxes gets 5 years
Jamie Dimon sounds the alarm over US debt
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Irony
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Why San Francisco Flushed $1.7 Million Down A Toilet They Couldn't Build
Some good news from Greece
Trump sees warning signs ahead of November
Who is rich?
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Quote of the day: Javier Milei unloads at Davos
"Socialism always and everywhere makes people poorer. It has failed in every country where it has been tried. Failed economically, socially and culturally. And it has murdered more than a hundred million people."Milei's 2024 Davos talk, directly translated to English by AI (by heygen), in his own accent. Better than the dubbed version imo. pic.twitter.com/8OAGELuqxl
— Aaron Slodov (@aphysicist) January 18, 2024
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Meanwhile
(in reference the preceding post) Joe Biden's job approval rating stands at 45% and Trump leads him in a two-man race by around 7%. With so many third-party candidates running, it's difficult to assess who is likely to benefit from the spoilers.
Iowa
Friday, January 12, 2024
Blasphemy
“GOD MADE TRUMP” pic.twitter.com/l03fK9SSfC
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) January 5, 2024
Matthew 7:15