Speaking of buying that Bo Giertz novel through this blog reminded me to thank all of you who are using Cranach as your Amazon portal. Going to that site from here, using the Amazon search box in the sidebar, gives this blog a commission on
Speaking of buying that Bo Giertz novel through this blog reminded me to thank all of you who are using Cranach as your Amazon portal. Going to that site from here, using the Amazon search box in the sidebar, gives this blog a commission on
Last week the Washington Post outed thousands of top-secret security agencies, to the point of publishing an on-line map so that they can be located. Now an online group WikiLeaks has released thousands of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan: U.S. and Pakistani officials
Despite North Korean threats to go nuclear, the U.S. and South Korea are going on with their naval exercises. See S. Korea, U.S. stage anti-sub exercises in 2nd day of joint naval drills.
Our electricity went out yesterday from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. Was it the North Koreans? Our area’s top-secret agencies? An infrastructure attack on our area’s top-secret agencies? No. Apparently it was just trees that blew over because of a quick storm we had. But
The naval exercises are set to begin on Sunday. North Korea said it would counter U.S. and South Korean joint naval exercises with “nuclear deterrence” after the Obama administration said the government in Pyongyang shouldn’t take any provocative steps. North Korea will “legitimately counter with
As I posted a while back ago, our friend on this blog Bror Erickson has translated a book by the Swedish Christian novelist Bo Giertz, The Knights of Rhodes. In my review, I complained about the large number of typographical and other errors. After corresponding
Have you followed the Shirley Sherrod fiasco? Conservative news aggregator Andrew Briethbart posted a video of this African-American Department of Agriculture official saying how she once wanted to refuse to help a particular farmer save his farm because he was white. An uproar ensued. Sherrod’s
According to Angelo M. Codevilla, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University, power in America is held by a distinct ruling class, comprised of both Democrats and Republicans, a political and social elite that uses the government to advance its interests against the two-thirds
Learn seven lines a day. . . The steady degradation of our mental faculties as we age has been documented in depressing detail. If you’re over 30, you’re losing it—the only question is how fast. So it’s nice when a study comes along suggesting that
While I was in France and Germany, I was most struck by how in the cities and towns the center of the community is still, to this day, the cathedral or the church. This is true of both Strasbourg, France, with its Roman Catholic cathedral,
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