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Feature / FF

7 Dec, 2016

Roger McGrath Remembers Pearl Harbor, UPDATE 2

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Roger McGrath, US Marine and illustrious historian of the American West, is also an authority on the Second World War.  In this ongoing interview, he sheds some light on the event that drew the United States into war 75 years ago. TFF:  Prof. McGrath: This week marks the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. When you and I were growing up, “Remember Pearl Harbor” was a common phrase, something like “Remember the Alamo in 19th century America. I’d like to explore with you why this event was so significant to two generations of Americans and why these days it seems to be...

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

7 Dec, 2016

Wednesday’s Child:  This Way Up (3)

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The self-indulgent rooster, crowing solely for his own biological pleasure, is seen by some as nature’s alarm clock and an enduring symbol of the countryside.  Others prefer it as coq-au-vin. Some would say that the critical reaction to Second Nature was no more than I deserved.  I had already made a nuisance of myself, what with those convoluted explanations of feeling and coquettish invocations of the Russian soul, so by wringing my neck the reviewers were merely performing a socially useful task.  My point is that whatever critical opprobrium I may deserve for all that self-indulgence, the genuinely interested reader...

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FA / Feature / FF / Podcasts

6 Dec, 2016

Trifkovic on the Populist Insurgency: Foreign Affairs, Episode 3

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In this episode of Foreign Affairs, Drs. Fleming and Trifkovic take a look at the recent Italian referendum, the situation in Serbia, the recent defeat of Norbert Hofer in Austria, and the current state of Turkey under Erdogan. If you want to know what the real score is in these situations, you owe it to yourself to take a listen. Original Air Date: December 6, 2016 Show Run Time: 54 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner The Fleming Foundation · Foreign Affairs, Episode 3   The Fleming Foundation Presents Foreign Affairs℗ is a...

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

23 Nov, 2016

Wednesday’s Child:  Letter from London

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Nobody is talking about Trump in London, I’m happy to say.  From a geopolitical perspective – provided you believe, as I do, that geopolitics is stark reality by a fancy name – this is naïve and foolish and a bit like hiding your head in the sand.  From a human perspective, however, it is immensely satisfying.  I would happily fly back to England just to escape the interminable tête-à-tête with the newsfeeds on my computer screen, where Trump has now overtaken the Kardashians as statesman and thinker. I stayed with my best friend there, the one who is getting divorced. ...

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All Paid Subscribers / Feature / Seiler

22 Nov, 2016

Trump Must Cut Parasite Pay

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This is long overdue: “President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are drawing up plans to take on the government bureaucracy they have long railed against, by eroding job protections and grinding down benefits that federal workers have received for a generation.” No wonder Virginia voted for Hillary. After the South switched to Republicans around the 1970s, the Old Dominion regularly voted for the GOP. When I lived there during the mid-1980s, the Maryland suburbs of D.C. were the place Democrats liked to live, while Northern Virginia was where Republicans tended to move, probably because that’s where the Pentagon and...

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Brownlow / Feature

22 Nov, 2016

Constitutions and How they Die

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“Limited government” is a phrase one hears a good deal, especially from Republican candidates for office, who claim to be in favor of it.  Since election to office has now become a guaranteed way to become rich quickly, we can assume that those candidates do not really mean what they say.  Besides, no government will voluntarily limit itself.  The only way to limit a government is to use force. Twice in Anglo-American history people have successfully used force to limit government.  In both cases the result was a government limited by constitutional law, and in both cases the result proved...

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Feature / Fleming / From Under The Rubble

22 Nov, 2016

Gary Keillor vs. the Yahoos

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Desperate to get his name into the news, Garrison Keillor is now posing as a political pundit.  We now live in two nations, civilized Christian people who voted for Hillary and the yahoos who voted for Trump “Broadway shows will now feel obliged to give lectures on diversity to any prominent Trumpist in the audience. Trumpists will explain, as one woman did, “Voting for him was the only way I could say that I exist.” (People who shoot up theaters may feel the same way.) The Trump faction will boycott chamber music concerts, wine tastings, lectures on Byzantine art and poetry...

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Feature / Fleming / From Under The Rubble

19 Nov, 2016

When Will We Ever Learn

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Mike Pence went to the hottest show on Broadway-a leftist/revolutionary travesty of Alexander Hamilton and, he found himself insulted and attacked by the cast.  He must have been shocked to discover that leftists  are never honorable.  Don’t like the Catholic Church?  Then rape and murder nuns and blow up churches.  Don’t like the Czar?  Murder his family.  Don’t like the way people in Florida and Alabama voted in a presidential election?   Tear up Portland and Los Angeles, where they voted your way. The left has never played by any rules but its own, and those are the simple rules...

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All Paid Subscribers / Feature / Seiler

18 Nov, 2016

What Would Trump Success Be?

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Historically, presidents are “successful” if they can achieve two, maybe three, great things in office. I define “successful” in their own terms – what they wanted, not what they ought to have done. Thus, Reagan was “successful” because he beat the Soviets in the Cold War, revived the U.S. economy and was the only president since World War II to be succeeded by a member of his own party. He was less “successful” with such goals as bringing “strict constitutionalists” to the Supreme Court; of his three appointments, only Antonin Scalia approached that goal. President Obama was “successful” in passing...

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All Paid Subscribers / Feature / Seiler

15 Nov, 2016

Three Cheers for the Electoral College!

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  I’m gloating over how the Electoral College worked as it’s supposed to, as designed by the Founding Fathers: It kept California from being relevant. Was California in 1787-89 part of Spain? No matter. The Founders had a dream in Philadelphia and saw how disastrous this state would become. Leftists of all stripes now are screaming, as they did in 2000, about how the EC is “undemocratic.” Screeched a letter to the Washington Post, “The Electoral College, an undemocratic vestige, distorted the election by giving battleground state voters more weight and smaller states disproportionate representation.” Thank you for making my...