Finally, we’re getting some insight into what really happened on Jan. 6. As I have said all along, there was no “insurrection.” It was just some aging Boomers and GenXers on heart meds being let into the U.S. Capitol building and roaming around.
To my mind, today’s sociopolitical climate is a mélange of images from the NEP period, the short-lived “New Economic Policy” of the early 1920’s when Russia’s rulers attempted to combine totalitarian power with free enterprise rather the way China is now openly doing. What are some of those images?
The Lisbon calamity is estimated by modern historians to have taken 50,000 lives, almost exactly the number that perished in Turkey three weeks ago concomitantly with the collapse of an estimated 173,000 buildings.
The problem with Western civilization is not exemplified by the rewriting of the books of Roald Dahl, but by the success of a writer like Raold Dahl or Stephen King or…. “but the task of filling up the blanks I’d rather leave to you.”
People in Rockford have an inferiority complex. In the nearly 40 years I have lived here, the city has broken into the national news on very few occasions, and virtually every one was a source of shame.
In this first episode of the Podcast series, Dr. Fleming discusses the enduring appeal of the genre of the Western and things to keep in mind as we will watch films on which both he and host Stephen Heiner will comment. Homework for episode 2? Watch the 1929 version of The Virginian.
For this first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I thought I’d take a positive view. What’s happening is the end of American “unipolarity.” That’s where post-Cold War America became the Unipower, the “sole remaining superpower,”
In any war, patriots are most likely to “support the troops.” And to join themselves, or encourage their children to join. Remember after 9/11? The flags flying. Rallying around the military. Support for the president soaring over 90%. The whole country taking a bead on Osama bin Laden.
“Don’t mention the war,” advised Basil in a famous episode of Fawlty Towers called “The Germans,” and I reckon the gentle reader appreciates that I’ve followed the hapless hotelier’s advice during the last few months of the ongoing catastrophe. Obliquely, however, that fast may be broken, rather the way a practicing Orthodox believer may sneak in a prawn or two during the Great Lent, which, incidentally, starts on Monday.
If it wasn’t for new Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance making a stink about the disaster, D.C. still would not have taken notice, including the mainstream media. Now, they certainly are, because they know it will be an issue against Biden and other Democrats in the 2024 election.
