Author: readerjohn

I am a retired lawyer and an Orthodox Christian, living in a collapsing civilization, the modern West. There are things I'll miss when it's gone. There are others I won't. I tend to write about both.

October 1, 2015

  1. Pope Francis versus the power elite
  2. The invisible nation
  3. A highly offensive, anti-American truth
  4. Almost as bad as the previous one
  5. Responding to rent-seeking
  6. Bless their hearts, they just can’t help it
  7. What rude beast?
  8. Where is the map of the dark places?

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Tuesday, 9/29/15

  1. An Agent Orange way of thinking
  2. When politics precedes culture
  3. No easy road
  4. We return to vulgar normalcy
  5. From slander to diagnosis
  6. Atheism for Dummies
  7. Winning’s not what matters
  8. Value voters

Oops! Premature publication Monday late afternoon. My bad.
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Friday, 9/25/15

  1. Left, too, has its obsessions
  2. Our secular Christian nation
  3. At ease in dystopia
  4. Diesel trade-offs
  5. Another fanciful Pope Francis extrapolation
  6. The journal of foreign policy reality
  7. Too ignorant for Democracy?
  8. Ben Carson on Islam

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Tuesday, 9/22/15

  1. The value of dissent
  2. Hard Afghanistan Questions
  3. Planned Parenthood & RICO
  4. New coinage: “Pretexting”
  5. Flash! Judicial review ≠ judicial supremacy!
  6. Fiorina the Formidable
  7. Lying Religion then and now
  8. One of these things is not like the others

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Friday, 9/18/15

  1. Challenging the rule of law
  2. I needed a trigger warning
  3. Why I’m not rushing to replace my iPhone
  4. Giving God time to heal
  5. Trump’s “Second Birth Certificate” looks bogus
  6. This book just evolved
  7. The character of our nation
  8. What pro-aborts know in private, deny in public

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