Ask The Right Question, Get The Right Answer

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 In Ross Hunter’s Lost Horizon are many charming scenes, lovely David/Bacharach music and this gem, Question Me An Answer: The song presents in appealing form an old wisdom, a certain doctrine: you will…

On Earning Peace

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, wretchard (aka Richard Fernandez of Belmont Club) commented, in the first of several paragraphs, on his own post, titled Who’s In Charge Of The Oncoming Train?, as follows: The problem you describe should be termed the Problem of Historical fluctuations. Is there a…

Donald And Melania Trump

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 This post originated in June 2015 and undergoes update since then. Today’s Fight Is Between Nationalism And Globalism And Between Great Beauty And Great Ugliness DONALD J. TRUMP CONTRACT WITH THE AMERICAN…

Violent Hillary, The Waco Kid

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Hillary Clinton is a violent woman and a woman of violence. Where she goes people die, violently, or are maligned, viciously, both in the USA and abroad. The list of such incidents is as long, at least, as the list of Hillary’s lies.…

Post-Antinomian-Trifecta Thoughts

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT John Hinderaker at Power Line posts under title Should Conservatives Give Up On The Supreme Court.  With edits here, I commented: I concur with [Andy] McCarthy on his analysis and beg leave to…

Marriage

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 BS, Ann and Anthony.  Marriage is the universal response to the joy of procreation. The universal response to the fear of solitude is prayer.  The universal anti-dote to fear is courage…

This Is Voters’ Problem

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Ordinarily I do not post about matters in current news propaganda because those matters are chosen by Commies subverting the nation so she cannot defend herself.  Today is an exception.  There is news: SCOTUS has ruled on the case of King v. Burwell. The ruling…

Cardinal Marx

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Cardinal Marx — an apposite surname! — has been reading Jim Pike as a how-to manual — as Pike intended — rather than a cautionary tale, which he really is. Following The Episcopal Church down the path of legalistic humanism no doubt appeals to…

Vincent Dubois | Maurice Duruflé

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 I am always behind the times.  I discovered this guy, Vincent Dubois, today making the Duruflé Suite Opus 5.  There was a composer named Théodore Dubois, early 20th Century.  Vincent may be related to…

Settled Science

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The settled science is that there is no settled science and that scientists, therefore, may speak but not insist. In the same way, the constitutionally protected human right to speak freely does not include either a right or a responsibility to insist.…

Answer The Question Of Statecraft, Ye Academics!

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 Dr. Bruce Thornton at Hoover Institution writes lucidly reviewing a volume of essays, collected and published posthumously, by the celebrated John Barrett Kelly.  I commented: So the first goal of a reinsertion, now…

CJCS GEN Martin Dempsey

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Scott Johnson at Power Line posts today regarding an interchange between his Congressman, Representative John Kline, and CJCS GEN Martin Dempsey.  I feel Scott’s take on the interchange is grandstanding and the bulk of commenters’ takes on the situation unintelligent, and my comment there…

CTC: Tragedy For West Point

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 Sidelines indeed.  Challengers, yet.  This work by Arie Perliger for West Point’s Combatting Terrorism Center looks cribbed from the Southern Poverty Communist Law Center: sanctimonious stupidity and utter crap. Perliger relies on the assumption that everything is merely…

Trending Control In The Middle East

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 Update 16JAN17 Something is afoot in MENA, a new alignment is forming, comprising Israel, Saud, Egypt and Jordan, that I can see so far. Not sure how it builds out, but I…

A Great Litterateur, Hilton Kramer

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, This post is to honor a man of art in literature, Hilton Kramer.  My attention was drawn to him by an essay of his titled Philip Johnson’s Brilliant Career. At Commentary Magazine here is a listing of his works. I commend this man’s…

Success

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Commonly in the USA, success is measured by the height of the stack of money one owns or can make others think one owns. And the height of that stack is measured — by others — by the location and size of…