Category: Feature

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Feature / Fleming

26 Oct, 2017

Mea Culpa

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I have not intentionally abandoned our readers these past few weeks, but I made the unwise decision to leave my laptop at home and rely on my wife’s iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard plus my iPhone.  The keyboard never worked, my iPhone fell to a hard floor and is worthless, and access even to the iPad has been a bit limited. We have enjoyed our week on a farm outside Spello and with Mark Beesley and our son Garret we have visited—in addition to Spello—Gubbio, Bevagna, Montefalco, Lago Trasimeno, and Spoleto.  Mark has done all the driving, which has made...

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Feature / Peters

21 Oct, 2017

Book Review: Confederaphobia: An American Epidemic

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Confederaphobia: An American Epidemic is a recent publication of Shotwell Publishing, LLC, co-founded by the author, Paul C. Graham, and Dr. Clyde N. Wilson, Professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina.   Mr. Graham holds an M.A. in philosophy from the University of South Carolina.  He is also an experienced editor, research scholar and writer of numerous articles which have appeared in publications such as the Simms Review and The Palmetto Partisan.   Confederaphobia appropriates the weapons of the enemy – cultural Marxists, leftists, liberals, their fellow travelers and useful idiots such as those masquerading as “conservatives,” and...

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

21 Oct, 2017

Wednesday’s Child: Chinsoc

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“Ingsoc,” as the gentle reader may recall, was Newspeak for “English Socialism,” the ruling ideology in Orwell’s nightmare.  A modern version of that nightmare is already up and running in real time throughout mainland China under the official name of “System of Social Credit.”  Before long all mankind is expected to see the advantages of such a system, with most developed countries following China in implementing their own national versions of digital totalitarianism.  As I have written here on several occasions in the past, Russia, while behind China in this area of technology, is scheduled to launch a homespun analogue...

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All Paid Subscribers / Feature / Seiler

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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All Paid Subscribers / Feature / Seiler

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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Feature / Fleming / From Under The Rubble

6 Oct, 2017

Rambling Thoughts

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We left Friday the 29th on the next to last direct flight to Rome on United and flew without incident to Rome.  The only unpleasantness was provided by the surly waitresses–oh, excuse me, professional flight attendants who are on the plane for our safety–who slapped the unasked for stuffed noodles down on the tray, with a curt:  “We’re all out of everything else.”  Pasta? On a flight to Rome?  With green stuff?  The last time I ate cooked spinach on a United Flight I was sick for several days.  When she uttered her brusque “You’re welcome,” I made the mistake...

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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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All Paid Subscribers / Feature / Seiler

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...