The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary

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Fleming

20 Feb, 2021

Plank #3: The 14th Amendment is Invalid

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Enactment of plank #2 leads ineluctably to #3:  Declare the 14th Amendment invalid.  Forrest McDonald and Raul Berger (among other historians and scholars) have shown that the 14th Amendment was both passed illegally—a bare majority was deemed sufficient, the votes of Southern states were coerced, and new states were admitted in order to gain ratification—and misconstrued to cover a wide variety of privileges not anticipated (and specifically repudiated) by the authors, such as the rights to vote and hold office. Since the Amendment was never enacted legally, all court decisions and Federal laws based in conformity or in expansion of...

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Feature / Fleming

17 Feb, 2021

Lackeys of the Regime Unite!

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“Conservatives are waxing wroth over a New York City high school principal who sent anti-white racist materials to parents in which a scale of “whiteness was outlined ranging from Uncle Tom Whiteys labelled “White Abolitionists” to the downright evil  “White Supremacists” by way of varying shades of collaboration or resistance to America’s entrenched racist regime. 

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All Paid Subscribers / Feature / Seiler

17 Feb, 2021

Trump Show Trial in the Green Zone

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The Trump Show Trial coincided with my finishing Stephen Kotkin’s “Stalin: The Paradoxes of Power.” The monumental book ends with two events: Stalin deciding that Marxist principles dictated finally collectivizing agriculture, which led to 7 million deaths in the Holodomor. And the Shakhty Trial of mine workers, which Uncle Joe – as American liberals lovingly called him – used to shock any objectors to collectivization into submission.

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Olson

15 Feb, 2021

Silent Movies–Four Big Swedes

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Very early in the history of movies, Sweden produced a couple of directors of the first rank, Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller, both of whom were brought to Hollywood, where each made a handful of features with major stars, most notably including Great Garbo, who came to America with Stiller, who had discovered her.

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Fleming

9 Feb, 2021

More Book Log

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In selecting books to read, many people  are content to employ  The Random Walk method of my childhood, when I was set loose, without guidance, in a library to prowl on my own. This method has the advantage of finding hidden treasures, but it’s a bit like digging for gold, without any knowledge of what gold is and where it can be found, in a vacant lot. You’re more likely to find old soup cans, dog excrement, and sodden rotting copies of the shopper insert in the daily newspaper.