Choosing the Future
Nations make choices, usually unconsciously, though it is too late, when a later generation complains about their teeth being set on edge, to refuse to drink the cup of sour wine that was offered to their fathers.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Donald Trump: Asset or Liability?
Those of us who want to save our country from a corrupt Establishment and the reign of Cultural Marxism may well be a minority, and a dwindling minority at that. Still, we have much support among good people whose intellectual and moral quality outranks the ruling regime.
The Tax Revolt That Never Happened
There is a tedious meme making its weary way around FB. It shows a smiling British soldier and informs the viewer that the USA, a country that once fought a revolution against taxation, has just hired 87,000 more IRS agents. Where are the FB fact-checkers? There was no revolution against taxe
Wednesday’s Child: Old MacDonald’s Way
Some cynical fellow out there has argued that all conversation between people is nothing but power play, with one interlocutor necessarily dominating the other even if the subject of discussion is as inconsequential as what one of them had for breakfast.
Hardening the State
The FBI has made it official: The USSA is a single party dictatorship where the ruling party persecutes opposition candidates. Even if Trump were guilty as charged, a lawful regime would seek to avoid the appearance of government harassment of opposition leaders. Instead, this government has put us all on notice.
Poem: Une Belle Dame Sans Merci
I wrote this some time in the early 1980s before moving to Rockford. It’s been printed in one or two places. Lovers of Ernest Dowson will recognize the line I have borrowed from one of his best poems.
John Derbyshire on Why We Should Harden Our Hearts
My old friend Peter Brimelow was kind enough to send me this link to an interesting article by John Derbyshire on VDARE.com. https://vdare.com/articles/john-derbyshire-harden-our-hearts-or-let-the-third-world-in-is-there-another-option
Abortion Advocacy as Moral Suicide
If I advocate an unrestricted right to abortion, then, it must include my mother’s right to have aborted me for whatever reason she chose.
Pelosi Visit Just Pushed Beijing Closer to Moscow
There was close to zero chance Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei would bring about war between China and the USA. China’s economy would collapse under an embargo of their exports similar to what was imposed on Russia.
The Great Revolution–From Whiggery to Marxism in one easy lesson
The Liberal Premise is not so much a collection of ethical and political positions as it is an ideological posture, or, to take a metaphor from everyday life in the new millennium, it is a virus that is forever mutating to meet new challenges to its advance.
