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June 2009

June 03, 2009

Pravda lectures America

Pravda used to be the propaganda rag of Soviet Communism. Today it apparently plays a...

May 2009

May 26, 2009

World gets more dangerous

North Korea exploded a Hiroshima-size nuclear bomb in an underground test. The Stalinist state's first...

May 25, 2009

Outbreaks of peace

We and the whole world should be thankful in Sri Lanka that the ultra-bloody separatist...

May 22, 2009

Abortion to eliminate girls

Wesley Smith at the First Things blog reports that ultra-liberal, ultra-progressive, ultra-feminist Sweden has made...

May 21, 2009

The population of the world’s countries

I came across this List of countries by population and found it fascinating. I did...

May 06, 2009

Report from Finland

You might have missed Snafu's comments on the Changing your religion post about the church...

May 01, 2009

The wars of the peace candidate

Barack Obama ran as the peace candidate. But now that he is president, we are...

April 2009

April 28, 2009

The Taliban taking over Pakistan?

From an editorial in the "Washington Post" entitled Sound the Alarm: THE TALIBAN raised fears...

April 24, 2009

China’s economic model catching on in the world

The old way of global domination was through military conquest. Now a country can take...

April 08, 2009

Nuclear disarmament

Obama Calls for World Without Nuclear Weapons - washingtonpost.com: In a speech grimly punctuated by...

April 07, 2009

The earth moves in Italy

Poor Italy, its beautiful mountain towns devastated by an earthquake that has killed at least...

April 03, 2009

UN says you can’t defame religion (especially Islam)

Mollie Hemingway at GetReligion reports on how the agency responsible for promoting human rights at...

April 02, 2009

Still more diplomatic gaffes

So the Obamas met the Queen of England and gave her an iPod. She already...

March 2009

March 31, 2009

British conservative smacks down the bailout mentality

If you haven't yet seen this clip, you need to. It shows Daniel Hannen, a...

March 31, 2009

Obama’s War

President Obama has announced his plans to escalate the war in Afghanistan. President Obama introduced...

March 31, 2009

Another European political model

If we have to be like the Europeans, perhaps we should consider one of their...

March 30, 2009

Grieving parents as new political force in China

Still-Communist China is having to deal with a new dissident movement that is hard to...

March 26, 2009

The Europe Syndrome

So America is abandoning its traditional principles of limited government and free enterprise economics in...

March 17, 2009

Diplomatic gaffes

The Obama administration was supposed to make the world like us again, but so far...

March 06, 2009

Russian scholar predicts the USA will end in 2010

We have earlier blogged about Igar Panarin, a respected Russian scholar, who has been saying...

March 05, 2009

Russia pushes Obama, refusing to help with Iran

Updating the recent post about President Obama being willing to give in to Russian demands...

March 02, 2009

Obama gives in to the Russians

Last year we had several posts on American plans to install missile defenses in Poland...

February 2009

February 24, 2009

Zimbabwe’s stimulus plan

That sad, messed-up nation of Zimbabwe, whose unemployment rate is 94%, finally legalized purchases in...

February 18, 2009

Civil unions instead of marriage

Legal unions for homosexual couples won't have any impact on traditional marriage, or so the...

February 10, 2009

The dignity of animals & plants, but not human life

Michael Cook at Salvo Magazine tells about the latest developments in the Swiss crusade for...

February 10, 2009

Arson jihad

As Australia reels from devastating brush fires--with the death toll going over 180--an Australian paper...

February 09, 2009

Why the poor are more religious

Anthony Sacramone gives a good answer to those studies--like this one--that show that poor states...

February 09, 2009

Australian inferno

Raging brushfires in Australia have killed more than 108 people and wiped out whole towns....

February 05, 2009

Zodiac discrimination

More evidence of the repaganization of Europe, that in the spiritual void left by the...

January 2009

January 29, 2009

Conversion to Christianity via Shintoism

Someone explain what happened here, as reported on the Touchstone blog: A Japanese Lutheran scholar,...