Author: Thomas Fleming

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Turning Green Into Gold, Conclusion

Before answering this question, we should remind ourselves that one Leftist revolution does not so much supplant its predecessors as absorb them.  Marxism absorbed liberalism’s attack on religion, monarchy, and social status, but it also prepared the ground for feminism and globalism. 

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The Bolton Creature

John Bolton,  turning on the President who hired him?   Who could have imagined such a thing?  Well, just about anyone who knew anything about John Bolton, an insufferable boor, an ego without a human personality,  a man with a silly mustache who talks crazy.

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More Birthdays

Benedict Arnold, Martin Luther King, Richard Savage, Magdalen Nabb, Ben Franklin, Al Capone, Arnold Rothstein, Pope Pius V, Cassius Clay, A.A. Milne, Archie Leach,

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Poetry: Savage Comments on Journalists

Richard Savage, whose birthday falls in January, was a close friend of Johnson who celebrated his unfortunate life and death in prison from liver failure.  This passage is from a longer satire “The Authors.”  Note how brutally relevant are down to the last detail, e.g., the stupid press’s attack on inoculation and their cruelty toward the unfortunate.

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A Time to Kill? (Conclusion)

In deciding whether it would be just to retaliate against an act of aggression, we should also consider the nature of the intended target.  Is it an old an honorable ally, whose current leadership has made a mistake or is it an inveterate enemy that has consistently transgressed the laws of nations?  It makes a difference…

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Some January Birthdays

A 19 minute podcast on the birthdays of Captain John Smith, Paul Revere, Zora Neale Hurston, Joan of Arc, Jesse Presley (the good twin), J.R.R. Tolkien, Karl Čapek, Frank James, Theodosius I, Bob Denver, Richard Nixon, Robert Stack, Ray Price, …. and David Bowie..

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Turning Green to Gold, Part One of Two

Greenies would like to terrify us into totalitarian measures designed to eliminate human civilization—if not humanity itself—from the planet.  Manmade Global Climate Change (finally) is the latest proof that our way of life, especially our bourgeois individualism and weird attachment to private property, is evil.

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A Time to Kill? Part Two

The consequences of war are one of the elements in Christian theories of just war.  Now, few Americans are sufficiently Christian as to take Christian arguments seriously.  They may justly claim to have “joy joy joy” down in their hearts, but that joy will not prevent them from divorcing their wives, cheating on their taxes, or watching Hollywood movies