Most of the Orthodox churches worldwide continue to adhere to the Julian calendar (as the Gregorian was established in 1582 by the Roman Ca...

I've mentioned before that the Serbian Orthodox Church follows the Julian calendar, which is currently about two weeks off from the...

"Hypocrisy," wrote the great French writer  Francois de La Rochefoucauld , "is the homage vice pays to virtue." Today,...

An acquaintance of mine is vacationing on Cyprus, and recently posted this to her Facebook page: The people of Cyprus are pretty religio...

Lord of the Rings (from Wikipedia) As a big fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's work, and Peter Jackson's screen adaptations thereof, I was ...

(with apologies to Tom Wolfe ) Many a time in the recent past have I thought to myself that we are living in the world mocked in the 1987 mo...

It isn't often that I can laugh uproariously upon reading what is supposed to be a serious quote from the legacy media. Usually, their s...

Rudyard Kipling's poetry, though good, was in the service of promoting the Empire of the day - in his case, the British. Richard Cumming...

A resource-rich desert, easily seized from its previous owner by a military operation that was the result of a devious scheme; but the expec...

Jason Miko writes on Reality Macedonia today , and tries to explain Kosovo through a joke: It is today, nearly six years after NATO and t...

The first time I read this, I was reminded of the European Union, which I only semi-jokingly call "Soviet" nowadays. The book it c...

I was reading the latest piece by Matt Taibbi in New York Press, courtesy of a link from LRC, and went back to the main page to see if ther...

It must be a sign of the times that the Imperator Orbis can make a speec h proclaiming his commitment to freedom and opposition to tyranny...

William S. Lind, premier theorist of Fourth Generation warfare, writes today on Antiwar.com : "Fourth Generation war is triumphing ov...

A good friend commented to me today: "It's beginning to dawn on me that the problem with most TV may not be want of talent; it ma...