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August 2024

August 26, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 8/26/24

Putin offers conservatives sanctuary in Russia; consciousness detected in 25% of the comatose; and watch...

June 2023

June 26, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 6/26/23

Civil war breaks out in Russia, Muslims step up in the culture wars, and Christianity...

February 2022

February 07, 2022

Wars and Rumors of War

World Wars often come as a surprise to the people who get dragged into them....

December 2017

December 05, 2017

Peace Through Oil & Natural Gas

One reason Vladimir Putin has had so much clout in Europe--especially in the Eastern European...

August 2017

August 14, 2017

Why Lutheranism appeals to Russians

Vladimir Putin continues to crackdown on religions that are "non-traditional" to Russia, persecuting people because of their...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

The Muslim civil war

Syria is the focal point of a global war between Shi'ite Muslims (led by Iran,...

April 2017

April 12, 2017

Why the Russians are backing Assad

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who is in Moscow for negotiations, has said that Russia...

March 2017

March 10, 2017

Is Russia seeding our shoreline with nuclear weapons?

Former Russian defense ministry spokesman Viktor Baranetz is claiming that "we are quietly 'seeding' the U.S....

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Is the Russian military testing Trump?

A Russian spy ship was spotted Tuesday sailing just off the U.S. east coast. Also...

February 14, 2017

Trump’s national security advisor resigns

Michael Flynn, President Trump's national security advisor, has resigned. He was caught negotiating with the...

February 06, 2017

Did Trump slander America?

In an interview aired Sunday, Bill O'Reilly asked President Trump why he is so supportive...

January 2017

January 19, 2017

Who is funding the U.S. secessionist movements

California and Texas both have secessionist movements with the goal of breaking away from the...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

Obama picks a fight with Russians

President Obama has hit Russia with sanctions and the expulsion of diplomatic personnel in retaliation...

December 12, 2016

CIA says Russia helped Trump

The CIA says that Russia deliberately interfered in the American election in order to help...

November 2016

November 25, 2016

Russian propaganda and the election

The Washington Post reports that "fake news" circulated before the election--such as reports of Hillary...

November 04, 2016

Ivan the Not-So-Terrible

Ivan the Terrible is known for killing his own son and for slaughtering vast numbers of...

November 02, 2016

FBI investigating Trump & Russia

In addition to investigating Hillary Clinton's illegal e-mail arrangements, the FBI has been investigating possible...

July 2016

July 27, 2016

Trump’s Russian connections

In yesterday's discussion about whether the Russians, who apparently hacked into the Democratic National Committee's...

July 22, 2016

Trump may not defend NATO allies

Donald Trump said that he may or may not come to the defense of a...

July 12, 2016

Russia forbids evangelizing outside of church

A new Russian law forbids evangelizing except within a church service. This includes using e-mail...

May 2016

May 02, 2016

Liberals who now work for Putin

Remember Ed Schultz, the liberal talker on MSNBC, who praised all things Obama and Clinton,...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

NATO member shoots down Russian plane–Putin threatens

Turkish fighters shot down a Russian attack aircraft over Syria, after accusations that it invaded...

November 18, 2015

“We need a union of all who can fight”

French president Francois Hollande called for "a union of all who can fight" to destroy...

October 2015

October 03, 2015

Russia attacks ISIS

Russia is doing what many people hoped the United States would do. It has gone...

June 2015

June 08, 2015

Russia’s mission to restore traditional values?

Russia reportedly sees its mission as restoring traditional values to the world, over against the...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

Are Russian oil companies funding environmentalists?

A newspaper is reporting that Russian oil companies connected to Vladimir Putin are funding some...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

NATO gets relevant again

We might agree that Russia's incursion into the Ukraine, while regrettable, doesn't concern us. But...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Russia invades Ukraine!

Russia has reportedly invaded the Ukraine, sending two armored columns that captured a town near...

August 08, 2014

Russian bombers in American airspace

Russia is responding to our sanctions and expressing its leader's contempt for what he considers...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Russia’s economic & political clout

Anne Applebaum points out that Russia has a smaller population than Nigeria or Pakistan, with...