More Good News
We should count our blessings. The COVID rules are a line in the sand, roughly separating the sheep from the goats.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
A Painful but Necessary Digression
an exclusively deductive political theorist will, with Rousseau, “begin by setting aside the facts” and quickly racing over one pons asinorum after another, declare that all property is theft and marriage, along with private property and “the state,” historical inventions made by tyrannical male capitalists plotting to subjugate the human race.
If Trump Were a Statesman, Fantasy Broadcast 2
There is no reason that America should have any serious conflict with the new Russia. They have tolerated the many provocations that our government has thrown at them in hope of eventual understanding. But there are powerful people pushing hostility against Russia…
Wednesday’s Child: The Bad and the Ugly
Today marks the twelfth day of hearings in the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where a Hollywood film star – the “Bad” of my title – is suing News Group Newspapers, publishers of the lowbrow and bestselling Sun, for libel.
If Donald Trump Were a Statesman, Broadcast I
A fantasy of what President Trump might do if he were a statesman. Of course, American society is no longer capable of producing a statesman.
Guns and Riots
A Biden victory would mean our guns would be taken, leaving us to be devoured be the rioters and the terrorists.
Wednesday’s Child: Letter from Venice
Apparently there is a neurological disorder called prosopagnosia, also known as facial agnosia or “face blindness,” affecting to greater or lesser extent some two percent of the world’s population.
Comfortable Words, PS
FDR hardly had a a neuron in his brain that was not employed full time in pandering to his vanity and lust for power, and he inevitably chose yes men and second-raters of the Rex Tugwell type–just as Kennedy did–to be his collaborators.
Comfortable Words from a Skeptic
One of FDR’s many mercenary writers penned a line that is quoted often but perhaps not enough: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” That’s obviously not true in any literal sense. As the tornado comes barreling down the street and is about to slam into my house and take us all to Oz,. fear is not the main problem, but in responding to the twin panics, ginned up by government and their media, fear is the greatest problem. A friend recently posted something someone wrote him, comparing our current problems with the Holocaust and used as...
