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Entrepreneurs Go on Strike

November 21, 2009November 21, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

American Thinker | by C. Edmund Wright | Nov. 20, 2009

Can Barney Frank dunk on Lebron? No, he cannot. Nor can anyone else in Washington. Nor can they catch passes from Ben Rothlisberger in the Super Bowl or strike out Derek Jeter in the World Series. They are not equipped to do so. So what?

This ridiculous image speaks to the business malaise infecting the economy since Obama took office. The point is that politicians are equally ill-equipped to run the auto industry or the health industry or the lending industry or the insurance industry — and their determination to do so is sucking all the dynamism from the entrepreneurial class in this country. [Read more…]

Global Warming Fraud by Hadley CRU Exposed

November 20, 2009November 25, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

Telegraph Media Group | by James Delingpole | Nov. 20, 2009

The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. [Read more…]

Orthodox Priest Who Converted Muslims Murdered in Russia

November 20, 2009November 20, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

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RIA Novosti | Nov. 20, 2009

A Russian Orthodox priest, Fr. Daniel Sysoyev, who carried out missionary work among immigrants from ex-Soviet republics, many of them Muslims, received over a dozen death threats before his murder on Thursday, a Russian paper said.

Fr. Daniel of St. Thomas Church in Moscow foresaw his death, writing in his internet diary that he had received telephone threats from Muslims. Fr. Daniel’s evening ‘talks’ for inquirers included several especially designed for Muslims. [Read more…]

Orthodox Priest Murdered in Moscow for His Anti-Muslim Stance

November 20, 2009November 20, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

Pravda | Nov. 20, 2009

Orthodox Priest Daniil Sysoyev (Daniel Sysoyev) was assassinated in Moscow at night of November 19. The crime was most likely committed for religious reasons. The priest might have fallen the victim of Islamic radicals or sectarians, investigators say. [Read more…]

Miranda Rights for Terrorists, New Obama Policy?

November 19, 2009November 19, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

American Thinker | by Rick Moran | Nov. 19, 2009

Does Osama bin Laden need to be read his Miranda rights if we capture him? The question put to Attorney General Eric Holder (who was appointed by President Obama) by Lindsey Graham got this response:

Again I’m not — that all depends. I mean, the notion that we —

Such clarity of thought is about par for the course in the Obama administration. [Read more…]

Health ‘Reform’ Gets a Failing Grade

November 19, 2009November 19, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

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Wall Street Journal | by Jeffrey S. Flier | Nov. 17, 2009

As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment on the health-reform debate. I’d give it a failing grade.

Instead of forthrightly dealing with the fundamental problems, discussion is dominated by rival factions struggling to enact or defeat President Barack Obama’s agenda. The rhetoric on both sides is exaggerated and often deceptive. Those of us for whom the central issue is health—not politics—have been left in the lurch. And as controversy heads toward a conclusion in Washington, it appears that the people who favor the legislation are engaged in collective denial. [Read more…]

Obama Criticizes Himself, Warns on High Deficits

November 18, 2009November 18, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

As if things could not possibly get more weird and delusional, President Obama now criticizes the very high government deficits he himself supported, promoted, and helped create. I don’t think the word “pathological” is sufficient to describe this man. We need to invent a new term.

Reuters | Nov. 18, 2009

BEIJING, Nov 18 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession. [Read more…]

The Silver Lining of the Left in Power

November 18, 2009November 18, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

DennisPrager.com | by Dennis Prager | Nov. 17, 2009

There may be a major silver lining for conservatives and for America’s future thanks to the foreign and domestic policies of President Obama and the Democrat-controlled House and Senate: For the first time in their lives, millions of Americans are coming to understand the left.

It is difficult to overstate how important this is. For decades, the left has largely controlled the news media, the arts, the universities and the entertainment media. And vast numbers of Americans have imbibed these leftist messages and the leftist critiques of conservatives. What these Americans have never been able to do is to see what the left would actually do if in power. [Read more…]

The Gulag Lives On – But Not in Our Culture

November 18, 2009November 18, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

OrthodoxyToday | by Daniel Crandall | Nov. 17, 2009

The list of films using the Holocaust as a plot device is lengthy indeed. The list of films that use the gulag as a plot device can be counted on one hand, and perhaps still have a few fingers available to hold a cigarette (if you’re into that counter-cultural habit) or a cup of coffee. Why do so few filmmakers show an interest in the gulag 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall? [Read more…]

Second Law of Thermodynamics

November 17, 2009November 17, 2009 by Orthodox Editors

The Second Law of Thermodynamics is one of three Laws of Thermodynamics. The term “thermodynamics” comes from two root words: “thermo,” meaning heat, and “dynamic,” meaning power. Thus, the Laws of Thermodynamics are the Laws of “Heat Power.” As far as we can tell, these Laws are absolute. All things in the observable universe are affected by and obey the Laws of Thermodynamics. [Read more…]