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21 Oct, 2017

End of the McCain Doctrine

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Call it the McCain Doctrine. It’s the foreign policy the U.S. government pursued from the 1999 attack on Serbia to pry away Kosovo, until President Trump’s 2017 occupation of the oval office. Through three presidents – Clinton, Bush II and Obama – the McCain Doctrine has meant constant, pointless intervention around the world. In 1999, McCain was the major force in Congress behind the attack on Serbia, which killed 5,000 Christian Serbs to put the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army in charge. The KLA then drove most Serbs out of their ancient homeland in Kosovo, blowing up their churches, and turning...

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Feature / Wednesday's Child

11 Oct, 2017

Wednesday’s Child: A Man of the Future

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Last week a 51-year-old man was briefly in police custody in the northwest of England for passing leaflets to shoppers of the fair sex in a town square. “No offence intended,” read the culprit’s appeal. “You are simply a female that caught my eye, and I don’t have the time to talk right now.” “I am not looking for a girlfriend or relationship,” ran his argument. “I am looking for a possible private arrangement.” This was followed, in case any of his readers might mistake his intentions in some unexpected way – for instance, spitefully misconstruing them as honorable –...

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10 Oct, 2017

Leftist Delusions About Trump

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One of the delights of the Trump presidency is seeing how he flummoxes the Left. Even less than usual, they have no idea what’s really going on. Most of them live in the D.C.-NYC Bubble and are clueless about the rest of America. A good example is the Washington Post, in particular writer Greg Sargent in his article titled, “Trump is failing, and the White House is covering it up with lies.” Except all he cites as “failure” is Trump not meeting some campaign promises 100%, in particular repealing Obamacare. But what about the actual policies and the real state...

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6 Oct, 2017

Leftists Are Delusional About Gun Control

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Whenever one of these mass shootings hits, Leftists unanimously begin spluttering about grabbing our guns. But notice they never say how they would do it. The New York Times has run several such articles, including “news” stories and editorials, every day since the killings. Typical was Nicholas Kristof, who fired off his op-ed while the blood still was coagulating on the ground in Vegas: “Preventing Mass Shootings Like the Vegas Strip Attack.” Among his eight planks: “7. Require safe storage, to reduce theft, suicide and accidents by children.” But how could that possibly have prevented the Las Vegas massacre? And...

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Feature / Wednesday's Child

5 Oct, 2017

Wednesday’s Child: A Byronic Epithalamium

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Last month, those in the know were told by the good Dr. Thomas Fleming that “with valid passports and plane reservations, you now only need endure the rigors of international air travel and get to the Grand Hotel del Gianicolo.”  Quite so, but it has occurred to me that what the chosen among Pastor Fleming’s flock may need at the point of departure for Italy is a nice little epithalamium. I have written on a number of occasions in the past that a country is invariably defined by what its climate allows its people to cultivate, so that France or Italy...

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Feature / Wednesday's Child

28 Sep, 2017

Wednesday’s Child: More from London

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If epochs have sounds epitomizing them, as the pealing of church bells and the rustling of crinolines may have been for some in the West just four or five generations ago, then the sound most characteristic of the present is the woodpecker noise of an acrylic fingernail upon the tempered glass of the smartphone. Like the jingle that haunts the man on the bus in Mark Twain’s story – remember? “A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,/A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare,/A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare,/Punch in the presence of the passenjare!” – this...

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26 Sep, 2017

Sports Break: The Internet, Not Politics, Is Sacking the NFL

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President Trump caused a ruckus again, this time by telling people at a rally in Alabama that NFL owners should fire players who knelt for the National Anthem. If sports fans leave stadiums when this happens, he said, “I guarantee things will stop.” Then he called for fans to boycott the game. That caused even more players to kneel. Meanwhile, attendance and TV ratings have been dropping faster than the players’ knees. The kneeling protests are against police maltreatment of blacks – some of it real, some, such as the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, exonerated even by President...

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Feature / Wednesday's Child

20 Sep, 2017

Wednesday’s Child: Letter from London

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“Now, when our enemies hear the F-35 engines, when they’re roaring overhead, their souls will tremble and they will know the day of reckoning has arrived.” Now that I am in London, I see it all rather more clearly. In Palermo in September, such things tend to get veiled in sea mist, and the fragrance of roasting peppers wafting upward from the apartment below does little for the sharpness of the geopolitical picture. From this perspective, the morbid irony of an American president elected on a ticket of isolationism who speaks in the idiom of Kim Jong-un, or perhaps of...

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Fleming / On the House

16 Sep, 2017

Tradition! Simple Simon’ Political Lexicon, Conservative Part IV OTH (Free to All Subscribers)

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“This is all very well,”  I can hear some readers saying, “but it is a bit generic. Other than opposing feminism and Marxism—which is something, I suppose—it doesn’t get us much a a program for action.  In particular, these general principles of human nature are even more general than Aristotle’s notion of Natural Justice which, unlike fire that burns the same in Greece and Persia, varies to some degree from people to people.” I agree that we have only reached the threshold.  To construct a specifically European-American Conservatism, we’d have to take account of particular principles and institutions that have...

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On the House

15 Sep, 2017

Thinking the Unthinkable About Nuking North Korea (Free to All Subscribers)

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Nuke North Korea? That’s what’s demanded by Ralph Peters in the New York Post in his article, “The moral answer to North Korea threats: Take them out!” His “morality”: “Better a million dead North Koreans than a thousand dead Americans.” He even insists, “We cannot allow moral relativism to butcher Americans,” although if anybody is a “relativist,” it’s him. He writes, “The fundamental reason our government exists is to protect our people and our territory. Everything else is a grace note. And the words we never should hear in regard to North Korea’s nuclear threats are ‘We should’ve done something.’”...