In one of the recent speeches President Obama referred to Sermon on the Mount and his call for a house built on rock rather than on sand is thought provoking.
Bill of Rights like Magna Carta is a testament and it cannot set aside from the pulse of a nation. Nation is made up of living [...]
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Posted in politics, tagged 100 days, 21st century freebooter, capitalism, global community, national values, President Obama, sermon on the mount on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ballad of a Soldier-1959
Posted in Russian cinema, tagged Best 100 films, Mother Russia, Grigory Chukhrai, unknown soldier, Great Patriotic War, Valdimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ballad of a Soldier is a feel-good film, which dwells at length into the nobility of Mother Russia: she had so many children she could spare for the Great Patriotic War. Of course there were gulags too. The film is however concerned for soldiers barely out of their teens. Our hero is Alyosha Skvortsov (Vladimir [...]