Pope Benedict XVI At Regensburg, 12SEP06

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, In the Western world it is widely held that only positivistic reason and the forms of philosophy based on it are universally valid. Yet the world’s profoundly religious cultures see this exclusion of the divine from the universality of reason as an…

The Ship Of State

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Engine running full speed.  Linkage to propellor disengaged.  Linkage to rudder disengaged.  Helmsman on vacation.  Navigator asleep.  Engineer passed out drunk.  Captain missed putting to sea.  Crew fighting over rations.  Happy, Madrassa Harvard? My friend Bob Belvedere posts today a thoughtful essay…

Three Brothers Doctrine: The Reason For War And The Three Brothers Partnership

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 There is one reason for war: defense.  Even perpetrators of offensive war drape their actions in the pretense of defense, so patent and potent is the single reason for war.  All…

Homo And Hetero

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 Greek prefix homo means same.  The Greek prefix hetero means strange. Think about that next time before you deploy the word heterosexual. Guess who coined it?  Want to engage them…

The Cat

The cat walks in talking and wants to be petted, recognized.  He is capable of hurling effective curses if ignored.  Who is worth more, he or who I am writing to?  How can one tell?  There is no metric for measuring worth.  Yet, we must, we are called to do it.  Time is the one…

William Pitt The Younger …

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 … on the French Revolution, from whence Socialism, Fascist and Communist: Nothing is too great for the temerity of its ambition, nothing too small or insignificant for the grasp of its…

The Do Attend / Do Support List of American Colleges And Universities

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT These are worthy candidates for matriculation, some entirely free of domestic and foreign government funding and other left wing corruption: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA The Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO Christendom…

Revolution

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Belvedere springing from Codevilla. At CPAC2014, talk of revolution. The bill received the endorsement, however, from the National Rifle Association and the Idaho Sheriff’s Association. AMDG

Epigrams VII

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   Nihilists want headlines.  Builders do not.   Soros and mouthpieces are Fifth Column, not Fourth Estate.   The religious denominations, colleges and universities and media of record are shameless partisans…

PWND By His Own Sanctimonious Historiography

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 Liar Of State Mommy!  That guy there is NOT doing what I WANT! Update 1: What is Putin about?  Also here. AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA He’s going to make a piddling war…

Three Brothers Doctrine: India, USA, Russia

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 Three Brothers Doctrine series of posts is available here.   The whole world, almost, is pulling for Putin.  Related. And those are not Russian troops.  They are operators in Russian SOF unit(s).  They…

Andrew Breitbart

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. My friend Bob Belvedere has created a sublime memorial to Andrew Breitbart here, to include a compendious round-up of others’ as well as his own expressions of love. A man is judged by the volume of tears made…

A Point That Cannot Be Made Too Often

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Belvedere makes it eloquently, here. Parallel: Jonah Goldberg to the same effect. AMDG – VICTORY

War On The Rising Poor

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. He shames our liberalism with its light rejection of the hard-won truths of generations, and its fond imagining that a new thing is therefore a true thing. The Rev. Dr. George Arthur Buttrick There never was a War on Poverty.  It was always and it…

Spengler On Ukraine

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 For what it is worth (!), I agree with Spengler on this. Strategic alliance with Russia against Middle East lunacy and China trumps human rights dynamics in … well, really, everywhere.…