Greenies would like to terrify us into totalitarian measures designed to eliminate human civilization—if not humanity itself—from the planet. Manmade Global Climate Change (finally) is the latest proof that our way of life, especially our bourgeois individualism and weird attachment to private property, is evil.
As it is now Russian Christmas, let us be jolly. Besides, I have so fatigued the gentle reader of late with my special brand of gloom and doom, even a single ray of sunshine may restore him to the belief that Wednesday’s Child is not congenitally insensible to the lighter side of life.
The consequences of war are one of the elements in Christian theories of just war. Now, few Americans are sufficiently Christian as to take Christian arguments seriously. They may justly claim to have “joy joy joy” down in their hearts, but that joy will not prevent them from divorcing their wives, cheating on their taxes, or watching Hollywood movies
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A 31 minute podcast in which Rex and the founder disagree sharply over the resolution: Violent movies and television shows are the antithesis of art and toxic drug for an addiction-prone nation.
Trump campaigned on ending the “regime change wars,” as Tulsi Gabbard calls them, and getting us out of the Middle East. We don’t have enough ground troops for an invasion. The rumors of bringing back the draft are just that. But the Iranians know Trump could destroy their oil refineries and devastate their economy even more than his sanctions already have.
President Trump’s decision to kill General Soleimani has stirred up the predictable opposition. For Nancy Pelosi and her party, Trump had to be condemned either for making an inadequate response to Iranian terrorist aggression against the United States or for a response she has decided, on her own authority, to declare a war crime.
As an anti-interventionist who has opposed all US involvement in wars since WW II and nearly all our military interventions, I send congratulations to the President for taking direct action against a pirate-state that has more than once attacked American diplomatic personnel.
If I’m sober enough to write this on New Year’s Eve, my gentle reader will surely have sobered up by New Year’s Day, and will consequently pardon me for staying on the Kremlinology hobbyhorse all through the holidays.
