Collecting My Thoughts

 I just read an article about the soaring housing costs in Dubai. Seem 90% of the people who live there are foreign nationals. Lots of reaso...

Fixed hour prayer time observances are very old in the Judeo-Christian worship traditions--Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Episcopal--but not in ...

“Russian internet trolls worked overtime in 2016 to inject disinformation into American elections. A year later, as news reports now reveal,...

“Eighty years ago (November 17, 1938) Stalin ended the Great Terror, citing “local excesses” that had come to his attention. It wasn’t until...

I was listening to NPR while putting away groceries. Did you know there is a woman in St. Petersburg posting discord and disrespect on Twitt...

The MSM (Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc.) plus all the leftist social media like Vox, HuffPo, Da...

The programs this past week were excellent--at least for me.  I’m sure some people didn’t want to hear a Methodist seminary president from M...

Glenn Beck did part 2 of his Russian series tonight discussing the history of Russia going back a thousand years up to the role of Alexandr ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQeNOiYL3AQ This is Russia, but many of the lessons and child rearing thoughts will be familiar to you.  I...

Interesting story of a group of Hutterites from Canada who go to Russia to display their hog equipment for sale and then go on the Ukraine (...

"In January 2010, my father went to hear a talk by Boris Gulko, a Russian Jewish chess grandmaster who had won the USSR championship in...

"When I came to America in 1980 and experienced life in this country, I thought it was fortunate that those living in the USSR did not ...