Ron Paul is NOT a nut case!

I don’t think you can be a successful practicing medical doctor for 30 years, and get elected to Congress, if you’re a certified nut case.
His foreign policy proposals, however, are deeply irresponsible and would vastly multiply and accelerate the threats to our very existence, and make him supremely unqualified to be President of the United [...]

Judgement Day for Papa Pilgrim.

At the top of the front page, above the moose story, was this article reporting the end of the long, sad saga of the Pilgrim family that has played out over a number of years up here.
“Papa Pilgrim” arrived here in the fall of 2002 with his wife and fifteen (yes, 15) children. At first [...]

A well-lit moose!

And I do mean well-lit, in more ways than one… another amusing “Alaska life” story from today’s Anchorage Daily News:
“Moose is beginning to look a lot like Christmas“.

Anglo-bashing diversity training challenged

Finally! This item from the Rocky Mountain News:
“Diversity video no laughing matter to city worker” (h/t to MM for the lead)
Obvious, but mandatory disclaimer: Folks, this is a million miles away from white supremacism. This is predictable pushback against “non-white” supremacism, against the way that Anglo-Europeans and Anglo-European culture are, alone among all [...]

Institutionalized treason at CIA, State Department.

A strong accusation, but it’s difficult to come to a different conclusion after hearing an interview with the author of “Shadow Warriors”. Here is a link to the Amazon.com book review, and here is a link to a podcast audio download of Dennis Prager’s interview with the author. I am NOT a conspiracy-monger, [...]

Worse than you could ever possibly have imagined!

“Mankind shortening the UNIVERSE’S life“! From the Telegraph (UK).
Those wacky quantum cosmologists are at it again.  They sound as if they’re saying this with a straight face, like they’re serious- but how would anyone know?  Omigawd, what might Al Gore do with THIS?  I can imagine him blushing in shame, thinking “Man, and here I [...]

Dishonest Democrats’ Disingenious Demagoguery

I remember the moment I first began to turn away from the liberalism I took for granted growing up in the 60’s. It was during the OPEC oil embargo crisis of the later 70’s, when there was heated national debate over our dependence on [...]

President Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation

What struck me for the first time when I read this is the absence of any reference to Pilgrims and Indians and all that story of the “first Thanksgiving”. The Thanksgiving holiday in fact has no essential connection to those events. It IS about, simply, gratitude, and the recognition and acknowledgment [...]

Happy Feast Day!

No, not Thanksgiving… that’s tomorrow.  Today Orthodox Christians celebrate the feast of the “Entrance of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) into the Temple”.  I am no theologian, and especially on feast days I like to refer visitors to someone who might be called my regular “guest speaker”, Father Stephen at “Glory to God for All Things“.  [...]

More inspiring pictures of hope

Folks, you have got to check this out- more from Michael Yon in Iraq, at St. John’s Church in Baghdad. Some of the captions:
“A Bishop came to St John’s Church in Baghdad today, 15 November, where a crowd of locals welcomed him home. They were joined at the service by soldiers from the 2-12 infantry [...]