Freedom -> Theology -> Religion -> Culture -> Politics

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT To start his famed biography of Christopher Columbus, Admiral Of The Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison establishes the context of Columbus’ career: Europe dispirited, dissolute, bored and generally lacking in get up and go.…

The Jugular: On Freedom

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT You know, Octavian, it’s quite possible that when you die . . . you will die without ever having been alive. Mark Antony to Octavian, Cleopatra, 1963 FFrreeeeddoomm ! ! ! Breathes there…

Angelo M. Codevilla: Advice To War Presidents

Chaitanya   Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Angelo M. Codevilla is justly esteemed a political philosopher of the first water, of the highest translucence.  I consider him the peer-successor of his countryman (of birth) Niccolò Machiavelli. Political philosophy (statecraft) always has been…

Patriotism, Not Principles; Power, Not Ideology

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Steven, you’re moaning.  Ivana Trump has said that RR encouraged DJT to stand for POTUS. The issue at trial is national sovereignty.  Ideology/principle is not. Conservatives…

The Conference

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Dateline: The White House Transcript of Goal And Strategy Conference, 28NOV13 Participants: Night Stalker (NS) Cover Air (CAIR) Huggie Boy (HB) Demo Able (DA) Demo Push (DP) Money One (M1) Money…

Roundhead Theocrats: Puritans In The White House And Congress

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The militants occupying the White House, the Congressional Majority Leadership, the liberal arts faculties, the legacy media, Code Pink, ACORN, Daily Kos, and the like are zealots with fanatical, faux-religious fervor.…