Church and State

John at Ad Orientem posted this item, which I thought was important enough to borrow.

I'm Beginning To Like This Particular Biker

I haven't been following her views since her "death panels" criticism of Obamacare, but anyone who'll get on the back of a Harley deserves a closer look. Which other politician would risk getting helmet hair?

The Right Attitude

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia intends to continue a dialog between the Church and political forces regardless of any election results.

Time To Vomit

More Srebrenica embellishments.

Say, how many of those corpses were Serbian soliders? Why were combatants permitted in a protected zone?

Administration: China Not Currency Manipulator

The administration is wrong. Of course China is manipulating its currency and has been doing so for most of the last decade. Now, the artifice is beginning to unravel with domestic inflation and mild currency revaluation.

So what? Well, the mercantilists in the Obama and Bush administrations were concerned that China was trumping the Bush/Obama beggar-thy-neighbor dollar-depreciation campaigns by keeping its currency low. It's sheer envy for China's ability to escape economic reality for so long.

By the way, since I talk all of the time about inexorable economic laws, how has China been able to seemingly suspend economic law? It's simple: super-saving Chinese citizens aren't paid the going market rate for their savings in state-owned banks.

Khodorkovsky Should Be Freed

'In which dusty cellar did they dig up the poisonous Stalinist spider who wrote this drivel?' Mr Khodorkovsky asked just hours before a Russian court rejected his appeal against a politically charged theft and money laundering conviction in December, while reducing his sentence from 14 years to 13. 'What long-term investments can be spoken of with such a justice system? There can be no modernisation at all without a clean-up of these cellars.'

Well said.

Finally, Serious Privatization

Privatization, not default.

Archbishop Justinian Knows The Score

According to him [Head of Patriarchal Dioceses in the USA Archbishop Justinian of Narofominsk], several thousand strong demonstrations may be held in America where people freely express their opinions and protests 'but they often receive no response from the Government: 'Do you want to speak out? You are welcome, this is America, and we have democracy. But the authorities will continue to pursue their own government policy.'

Spring Cleaning

Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for Relations with the Armed Forces Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov proposed to hold the all-Russian subbotnik, a day of volunteer work, to 'clean' Russia from monuments to Lenin.

'We have a strong tradition of cleaning cities from winter garbage It would be reasonable to expand this cleaning tradition on monuments and signboards which carry the name of this monster. We should hold such all-Russian subbotnik to delete his name from our memory,' Father Dimitry said in his video blog.

The Right Man For The Job

President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday the killing of Osama bin Laden would benefit Russia as it fights an Islamist insurgency along its southern flank.

'The liquidation of terrorists, even on the level of ... bin Laden, has a direct relationship to the level of security on the territory of our state,' he said, in his first public comments on the al Qaeda leader's killing during a U.S. raid in Pakistan.

Another Victory For The Parasites

Hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam was found guilty on all 14 counts of insider trading in a sweeping victory for the government and a vindication of its aggressive use of phone taps to pursue Wall Street crimes.


The attempts by the regulatory socialists to outlaw asymmetrical information would be laughable if the plight of their victims weren't so poignant.

Wisdom From Moscow

"When a man acquires an enormous strength through his mind, infiltration into science and technology creation, he must simultaneously increase his great moral responsibility for people around him, for the peace of God and nature."

Patriarch Kirill on Chernobyl

Christ Is Risen!