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Putin Speaks at Davos - WSJ.com : "Although additional protectionism will prove inevitable during the crisis, all of us must display a sense of proportion. Excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state's omnipotence is another possible mistake. True, the state's increased role in times of crisis is a natural reaction to market setbacks. Instead of streamlining market mechanisms, some are tempted to expand state economic intervention to the greatest possible extent." In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated...There is no reason to believe that we can achieve better results by shifting responsibility onto the state... And one more point: anti-crisis measures should not escalate into financial populism and a refusal to implement responsible macroeconomic policies. The unjusti...

Do Obama's words reveal his Middle East sympathies? - Los Angeles Times : "Do Obama's words reveal his Middle East sympathies? A close examination of the speech underscores how Obama, four months into his presidency, is still introducing himself -- and what he stands for -- to Americans and the world." In other words, people didn't really know what he stood for when they elected him. Just what Republicans and Hillary supporters said.

Blue Letter Bible - Commentaries : His mercy is on them that fear him; it has always been so; ... for them that fear him, and this from generation to generation; for there are gospel privileges transmitted by entail , and intended for perpetuity."

Blue Letter Bible - Commentaries : "And, if God regards her low estate, he not only thereby gives a specimen of his favour to the whole race of mankind, whom he remembers in their low estate, as the psalmist speaks (Ps. 136:23),"

Luke 1.47-48 Magnificat Blue Letter Bible - Commentaries : "He has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden; that is, he has looked upon her with pity, for so the word is commonly used. 'He has chosen me to this honour, notwithstanding my great meanness, poverty, and obscurity.’’ Nay, the expression seems to intimate, not only (to allude to that of Gideon, Jdg. 6:15) that her family was poor in Judah, but that she was the least in her father’s house, as if she were under some particular contempt and disgraced among her relations, was unjustly neglected, and the outcast of the family, and God put this honour upon her, to balance abundantly the contempt."