Category: Access

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All Paid Subscribers / Seiler

30 Nov, 2019

VOA Propagandizing Americans on Ukraine

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The Voice of America is part of the U.S. government’s Ministry of Truth. The Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 prohibited it from directly broadcasting to the American people. It did some good during the Cold War, with programs aimed at those behind the Iron Curtain and elsewhere. With the end of the Cold War in 1991 and the rise of the Web c. 1994, it should have been abolished. But as Milton Friedman said, there’s nothing so permanent as a temporary government agency. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 gave the VOA the OK to broadcast directly to Americans, supposedly...

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Autodidact / Free Content

26 Nov, 2019

Climate Change, Face Book, and Other Nonsense

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On the basis of what authority are you entitled to declare all criticism of manmade climate change to be rightwing ideology? I know several people who never got beyond 9th grade general science but are forever sounding off on FB on the idiocy of “conservatives”–by which I think they mean supporters of global capitalism–who deny what all right-thinking men are supposed to know. Of course all right-thinking men once upon a time believed in Phlogiston, spontaneous generation, phrenology, and the possibility of a successful Marxist economy. It is true that we all have opinions, most of them unsubstantiated by any stronger proof than an editorial in the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times or perhaps it was something we misunderstood once back in Music Appreciation 101. That is what ideologies do to the brain, and it scarcely matters if it is the ideology of Al Gore or Alfred Rosenburg. If Mr Henman, so absolutely certain he is on the right side of history (or should I say the left side), thinks he is an expert on climatology, how did he come by his expertise?

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All Paid Subscribers / Seiler

26 Nov, 2019

Judge Napolitano’s Abuse of Roman History

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For some reason Judge Andrew Napolitano is obsessed with pushing flimsy reasons to impeach President Trump. He gave Reason mag a list of five reasons to do so. But that’s “Loserthink,” as Scott Adams explains in his new book of that name. If you can’t come up with one good reason for something, such as impeachment, then it’s just a “laundry list,” with every item weak.  The judge even started out saying “three or four” reasons, then ended up with five. He’s a self-parody out of the old Monty Python “Spanish Inquisition” sketch, in which the inquisitors kept increasing the...

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All Paid Subscribers / Seiler

19 Nov, 2019

Judge Napolitano Wrong on Impeachment

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I’ve learned much from Judge Andrew Napolitano from his many years of Constitution-based commentaries on current events. But he’s wrong in backing the Democrats’ impeachment hearings on President Trump.  Napolitano wrote this week in a column titled, “Is Ignorance of the Constitution Trump’s Defense?” that the charges against Trump are “solicitation, bribery and obstruction” relating to Ukraine, specifically the May 25 call with the country’s President Zelinsky.  Well, we’ve all read the transcript. To me, it’s obvious Trump was just checking on possible bribery involving Hunter Biden when his father was vice president, in the most corrupt country in Europe,...

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Wednesday's Child

13 Nov, 2019

Wednesday’s Child: A Chat with a Finance Inspector

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Guardia di Finanza has made a lot of headlines over the last few years by ambushing unsuspecting citizens as they left fancy hotels like La Poste in Cortina d’Ampezzo and luxury shops like Prada in Palermo – as well as expensive restaurants, sports car dealers, cigar emporia, men’s tailors, furriers, jewelers, and so on, ordering hapless shoppers to disclose the source of funds that brought upon them the iniquity of spending

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Fleming / Free Content

11 Nov, 2019

The Honest Journalist, Part One (of Two)

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Mankind does not need to be taught to lie: Adam told his first lie in the Garden, but it is disconcerting to realize that the talk radio listeners, in modeling themselves on Mark Levin and Shawn Hannity, have learned to be as one-dimensional and misinformed as their heroes.  I suppose, in defense of the American people, we should concede that the best people do not listen to talk radio or read the newspapers. 

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All Paid Subscribers / Seiler

11 Nov, 2019

Bernie: Open the Borders All the Way, Baby

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Give it to Bernie Sanders for pushing policies almost all top Democrats now advocate. He also did that in 2016, when Hillary stole the nomination from him.  Now it’s immigration. The Nation’s article put it well, from the Left’s perspective, with the subhead a summary: “Bernie’s Immigration Plan Is Good: The senator’s newly released plan—to halt deportations, abolish ICE, create a path to citizenship, and boost worker protections—marks a shift not only in Democratic policy but even from his own prior positions.” Just a couple years ago, Bernie still was an old worker-oriented Marxist, like a 1930s Wobblie. As the...

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Wednesday's Child

6 Nov, 2019

Wednesday’s Child: In Memoriam

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A friend of mine died last week.  Maybe not a friend, more of an acquaintance, but so monumental were the man’s life and works that my desire to stand for a moment in his shadow is easily understood. These gradations of intimacy – close friend, friend, acquaintance, passing acquaintance, somebody whose book you’ve read, somebody with whom you once shared a seat in a train carriage – are actually quite tricky.  It comes down to knowing a person, but when does one really know someone?  Cases are a dime a dozen when fathers and sons, and even more commonly husbands...