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California: The Road Warrior Is Here (11)
- CQ Crime in CA has been falling pretty steadily since about 1990, which is now 23 years (nearly a quarter century)...
- Michael Kinsey As Christians, we must rebuild the walls that were broken down. The Royal Law has been rejected, and...
- Michael Kinsey Everlasting Son of God is what I said, it is not meet to omit a word.
- Michael Kinsey While these clerics were in seminary, I was being dragged through the streets by my hair by police, in...
- Michael Kinsey Every person in America has asked himself the simple question. Would I have wanted to be aborted.Only,...
- George Michalopulos I don’t dispute your premise one bit. However, what this movie and those who declaim about...
- George Michalopulos Good points, CQ. To say that crime however is “more isolated” and only due in part to...
- CQ Interestingly VDH and I are about the same age, I’m 3rd generation Californian, with great-grandparents...
- M. Stankovich What you need to do is rent the 1998 film short A Day Without a Mexican which lead to the full...
- Yo Competing visions of the common good: Rethinking help for the poor. Videos, Washington, D.C....
It’s Called “Voting with Your Feet” (85)
- Seraphim98 Historian, again in the absence of a reply button, I reply here to your invitation to read Lincoln’s...
- historian Seraphim, Have you ever read Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address? Here’s one link of many to it:...
- Tim R Mortiss It must have come to you in a vision! And conflicting Orthodox jurisdictions would have...
- Tim R. Mortiss I’ll make just a few more comments, then leave the subject, which is so fraught and which is a...
- Michael Bauman If the union had divided, it is likely that the European powers would have had a great deal more...
- Michael Bauman Seraphim, et.al. I urge you to make a pilgramage to Ash Grove, MO, worship in the Orthodox Church...
- Michael Bauman The first state in which the idea of secession was seriously discussed what Massachusetts.
- Seraphim98 Historian, since there is no reply button under your comment I have to do it this way: The proper manner...
- George Michalopulos I won’t blame Lincoln because had he lived the awful nightmare of Reconstruction would...
- George Michalopulos Thank you Lex. People forget that the Constitution and the Union that grew out of it, was created...
- George Michalopulos CQ, for what it’s worth, I think that California is the most beautiful state in the Union....
- George Michalopulos Seraphim, thank you for this lovely response. Robert Penn Warren was commissioned to write an...
- historian The proper manner for one state to “unjoin” the United States is via an amendment to the...
- Seraphim98 No…that was largely the fault of the radical republicans who sought to completely crush us in every way...
- Seraphim98 A couple of points: But it’s not my country, and I don’t get misty-eyed about it. But that is mainly...
- Seraphim98 Have you thought out the ramifications of this republic truly divided? Those ramifications are not at...
- CQ George, I haven’t claimed things “are so rosy,” I’ve pointed out errors of fact. We...
- lexcaritas But Ivan the Union was entered into voluntarily by ratification by the constituting states and their...
- George Michalopulos You have every reason to love your state because of its staggering beauty. A minor quibble if I...
- Tim R. Mortiss I love my State, Washington, where I was born, where I can go from saltwater to high mountains in an...
- Ivan Vasiliev Have you thought out the ramifications of this republic truly divided? Imagine it! A stew of two or...
- Tim R. Mortiss I rest my case. It was too bad about 100 years of Jim Crow, too, but that was probably Abe...
- Nate Trost That’s one out of six law school graduates. The actual numbers for general BS grads is probably...
- geo michalopulos CQ, if things are so rosy in the Golden State, then why is one out of every six college graduates...
- Seraphim98 My only self-imposed rule for chats with the unrecontructed is that only primary sources may be cited,...
Stinkbomb II (133)
- nit picker This is in reply to Stankovich: you would miss me at 3:11 so you are trying to tell us that you and...
- ChristineFevronia Dear Michael, thank you for your response. I am grateful. The other day I was catching up on the...
- Yo Dear Jeffery, Thanks for the link. I see what you mean about the emphasis being on fishing. It seems that the...
- Jeffery Erickson Yo, Here is the article and picture the Chancellor fishing. He was in Alaska for the graduation...
- To Kiril Kirile, You over credentialed yourself. Made you seem momentarily like you might have a narcissistic...
- Yo Dear Jeffrey, I went to the OCA website and could not find the article you were talking about. Could you provide...
- Amazed in the Midwest Maybe some of you saw the OCA website “report” on the Lesser Synod’s meeting...
- M. Stankovich No, you simple ass. It figures that of anybody, you would miss me at 3:11. How many times have I said,...
- James I feel for Carl, trying all these many months to justify the indefensible actions of the OCA against +Jonah....
- Jeffery Dear George and “Nit-picker”, Christ is Risen! Those ideas crossed my mind too but another also...
- Heracleides Isn’t that Stankovich at the 1:20 minute mark?
- George Michalopulos Dear-to-Christ Kyrill, you are always welcome to post on this blog.
- George Michalopulos Can you say “cult of personality”?
- George Michalopulos Dr Stankovich, you always write reasonably and lucidly and for this I thank you. Permit me a...
- M. Stankovich ChristineFevronia, I do not disagree with you other than to say I entered this discussion for...
- ChristineFevronia Your prayers must be working, because I have had much, much peace in my heart since learning that a...
- nit picker Hi Jeffery- Maybe Fr. Jillions wants us all to be insanely jealous that he got to go fishing in Alaska? Or...
- Kentigern Siewers Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! Now the Chancellor’s friend and defender offers his...
- Carl Kraeff George–I wanted to say goodbye to you too. I thank you for allowing me to post on your blog. In...
- Jeffery Erickson Hello. I just found your website and I hope I am not writing something that has already been covered...
- colette replying to Nit picker May 23, I thought that was you.
- Kentigern Siewers Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! Certainly the Chancellor’s friend and defender seems like...
- nit picker colette wrote: Yeah . . don’t mean to, but that is all I can remember. . .. Who are you? I could tell you,...
- nit picker Dr. Stankovich, Tell me you’re kidding me. Seriously. Tell me you were drinking Red Bull at 1:19 am...
- Disgusted With it Of course it was “skipped over”. People with such selective moral outrage can never be...
Diversity is Strength! (54)
- Fr. George Washburn Hello friends: I find myself in partial agreement with this comment. George and certain others...
- George Michalopulos PS, you’re right about Satan. His agents-in-place are the secularists. Muslims are merely...
- George Michalopulos But they’re doing it anyway, aren’t they Ivan? I mean driving out native Christians....
- George Michalopulos It was pathetic Deacon Chris. There was a time in which John Bull was so self-confident that...
- George Michalopulos I’m beginning to doubt Antonia’s basic premise. Maybe certain Chechen clans or...
- George Michalopulos I’ve criticized some Israeli policies on my blog so I don’t have to prove my bona...
- George Michalopulos Good point. My point however is that a nation should pick and choose who it lets in based on its...
- Rus Antonia, what makes you think that way? It is well known that Chechen tribes begin to covert to Islam around VII...
- Basil Michael, I’m sure there would be some Muslims who would do so, although they would be despised by their...
- Basil By that logic, George, you are a Greek and not American! The man’s passport, if he had one, would be...
- Basil Their “piece of dirt” is the whole earth, Brigel. Read about Maududi and Qutb, the intellectual...
- Michael Bauman Thank you, Pere. And you are correct concerning the Copts. Whatever the Christological differences...
- Michael Bauman Brigel, comparing the Islamic-Jewish conflict with the American Revolution is historically inaccurate....
- Michael Bauman Brigel, I’d like to know what evidence you have that Muslim’s don’t hate us...
- Nate Trost I sense a certain lack of consistency here. You seem to feel entitled to brand subsets of Muslims as wild...
- Patrick Henry Reardon Brigel writes: “Muslims don’t hate us. Give them back their piece of dirt, and this whole...
- lexcaritas Antonia, do you know why the Chechens converted? A matter of free choice . . . or . . . just wondering as...
- Pere LaChaise Indeed, He is risen! O death, where is thy sting? Michael, your comment helps clear the...
- Pere LaChaise No, it doesn’t make them necessarily Muslim as Christians were typically impressed into the...
- George Michalopulos P.S. most people in Latin America are extremely light-complected. Their majority stock is...
- George Michalopulos On the contrary. I for one don’t believe tha Muslims, like all human beings, do NOT have...
- Pere LaChaise Mr. Michalopoulos, you should watch the film “Children of Men” based on the PD James novel,...
- George Michalopulos If that’s true, then I stand corrected. However I would like to see some confirmation from...
- nit picker Very true. I am glad you make that distinction. It is an important one.
- Antonia Correction: Chechens were Orthodox Christian; however, the tribes converted to Islam during the 17th-19th...
Director of St Luke’s Resigns (174)
- Archpriest John W. Morris To Stan Poulous. I could not disagree with you more. When the Greeks broke Communion with...
- M. Stankovich Fr. Andrei, Indeed He is Risen! I was not ignoring you, but I am reluctant to share personal...
- Tim R. Mortiss I suddenly wondered: do one’s views of Muskovy have any relation to what side of the Mason-Dixon...
- Michael Bauman Fr. John, I totally agree with your last statement that Met. Philip will go down in history as one of...
- Stan Poulos Fr. John, I appreciate your love for + Philip. He has done much good and has done a nice job of reaching...
- George Michalopulos Stan, I see that you continue to evade my very simple questions. Specifically, how many...
- Stan Poulos George, Now you reveal your true colors. You too are a Russophile and mimic + Jonah himself. The ROC is...
- George Michalopulos Stan, if I hear one more time how the ROC is the “most corrupt” Orthodox Church,...
- Michael Bauman Stan on one hand you claim we Antiochians are under the thumb of “foreign” bishops and on...
- Archpriest John W. Morris I have stopped making many comments on this blog because I am tired of reading about all...
- H pylori One cause of ulcers is Helicobacter pylori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H elicobacter_pylori...
- sue Stan, Your editorial merely indicts the Synod that elected Met. Jonah. While I do not agree with your assessment,...
- sue Carl, My sundial is still running! Do you know these men personally?
- Stan Poulos George, You can have Moscow. The ROC is probably the most corrupt Orthodox Church in the world. This is...
- George Michalopulos Stan, I very much appreciate your critique and am in agreement with parts of it. But how can you...
- Stan Poulos George & Fr. Webster, Autonomy means nothing. With + Philip, he has been operating autonomously since...
- Archpriest Alexander F. C. Webster, PhD Re the idiotic comment: “I seriously believe + Jonah was psychlogically...
- George Michalopulos First, I do agree with you about foreign bishops controlling American territory in the ham-fisted...
- Archpriest Andrei Alexiev Christ is Risen! George, My current spiritual father,Fr.Stavros,is a Greek American,who...
- Stan Poulos Seraphim98, …Because “foreign bishops have no authority outside their own territory”...
- Archpriest Andrei Alexiev Christ is Risen! Dr.Stankovich, Thank you for the recommedations.I know Charlie LeDuff from...
- colette Wow. This is really carefully and respectfully written. You hit the complicated point we all observed but...
- Serpahim98 It puzzles me why people think the OCA surrendering it’s tomos voluntarily as part of an effort to...
- nit picker M. Stankovich, Thank you for taking the time to respond to my comments. I looked again at the original...
Even Jon Stewart Gets It (42)
- T.R. Taxation is theft.
- Michael Bauman Fr. Pat: Lipstick on a pig?
- Patrick Henry Reardon With a fine rhetorical flourish, Dan asks, “Some IRS agents go rouge and it’s a...
- Bill Christensen He is a comedian. It is hilarious. Don’t you get it. Easy does it. It. This too shall pass.
- geo michalopulos Nate, you have no idea. The Conservatives have been hated vituperatively since Goldwater 64. I know,...
- Michael Bauman The fact is that as vulgar as modern politics is, it is more civilized than at many times in the past....
- Gregg Gerasimon Thank you for posting this. The more I watch these Metropolitan Jonah talks, the more I believe that...
- Nate Trost You presented a proposition that 98% of vulgar hateful political speech comes from “the Left”,...
- Guy Westover WONDERFUL! What else can one say? Oh, yeah. Pray for them and offer them some financial support....
- George Michalopulos OK, lemme get this straight, even with Google alone Palin-hatred eclipses Hillary-hatred by 2:1....
- Fr. Hans Jacobse It’s always nice to read comments from someone who realizes that history did not begin on the...
- Nate Trost You sound amusingly like a self-righteously offended character from the New Testament at the moment....
- Nate Trost Google search: “Hilary Clinton (extremely vulgar obscenity)”: About 319,000 results Google...
- L http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pre sident-obama%E2%80%99s-use-of- teabagger-term-provokes-media- debate/
- George Michalopulos Thank you for pointing that out Ivan. I never knew what a “Tea Bagger” was until last...
- George Michalopulos Good point. When all is said and done however the Left uses more vulgarity and hatred than the...
- CQ Tornados struck hard in Oklahoma. People died, homes and entire communities destroyed. Lord have mercy!
- wow! suggests http://zoeforlifeonline.org/
- Lola J. Lee Beno Just out of curiosity, how would you label women who are not in monogamously-committed...
- Tim R. Mortiss A worthy point to be made now and then, though it is no longer much understood, alas. There’s...
- Archpriest John W. Morris Actually, the constitution does exempt religious institutions from taxation. In the case of...
- Michael Kinsey Only sodomites, and gommorhites demand submissiveness from others.
- Michael Kinsey All well, arguements over whose better, tweedledumb or tweedledumber. I will mention a wieghter matter...
May 20, 2013 – Tornadoes in Oklahoma (9)
- George Michalopulos Lord be praised that you and yours are safe.
- Michael Bauman If the experience of the clean up there is anything like what happen when a tornado hit a suburb of...
- Francis Frost Dear Mr. Michaelopulos: As far as I know there was no damage to any of our Orthodox churches here in...
- Michael Bauman Mr Kinsey, I pray that someday you will be able to put Fr. Herman down. You’ve been carrying him...
- Sean Richardson Have we heard any news of the Orthodox faithful and the Orthodox Churches in the area so devastated?...
- Michael Bauman Most of these storms are quite localized and you have time to get to safety. This one blew up much...
- Gail Sheppard Praying. . .
- Michael Kinsey May the Christ grant you the grace required to please HIm in crisis. There was another empty big ill...

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