Change the character and you have changed the nation. A culture based on casual promiscuity, Gaia-worship, and mistranslations of Hindu and Mayan literature will produce an entirely different national character from one based on Homer and Dante.
An 18 minute podcast filled with occasionally accurate information on the life of Santa Claus
Although they’re idiotic, tyrannical and boring, there’s humor in the Impeachment Follies: 1. Why hasn’t Greta Thunberg intervened to remove Trump and replace him with herself? Time magazine, long connected to the CIA, just proclaimed her Queen of the Galaxy. It quotes her marching orders to her subjects, “I want you to panic!” She replaced Queen Lea Organa, who died in the last P.C. Star Wars movie, but might come back in the next one, out December 20, “Star Wars XVIIXMCDMMVIIILMNOPQ: Jar Jar Abrams’ P.C. Guide to the Galaxy and Why Trump Should Be Impeached.” 2. Among the New Republic’s...
Text and Talk, 11 May 2019 It is difficult to forget Russia, given the proclivity of the state, real and imagined, to meddle in America elections and to violate egregiously the Monroe Doctrine by sponsoring illiberal client states such as Cuba and Venezuela that are organized on a socialist model. From 1946 to 1991 Russia was an existential threat to Western Europe. Its nuclear arsenal is now larger than that of the United States and it has the only other strategic air force in the world. Its manner in politics is bullying, and its leaders still consider the...
People whose memories go back more than a few weeks will remember that when Donald Trump inserted himself into the competition for the Republican nomination in 2015, and began immediately to dominate the debates, there was consternation among all those people who had become accustomed to things never changing. When his supporters began to greet the name Clinton with chants of “Lock her up!” and he began to talk about draining the Washington swamps, consternation turned to panic. As we now know, his political opponents, both Democrats and Republicans, joined forces with rogue elements in the huge spy establishment, hoping...
A great hymn by Charles Wesley, an Anglican minister who never abandoned the church in which he had been ordained.
A 26 minute podcast on the disillusioning of American democracy.
I do not blame the students. The fault lies almost entirely with their parents and with their teachers. Entire university departments are now populated exclusively by trained monkeys who specialize in critical theory or sociology or marketing and know absolutely nothing worth knowing.
Put simply, over the last twenty years the story of civil liberties in Russia has run in parallel with Solomon Grundy’s. That arrest there has now become virtually synonymous with prosecution, and prosecution with conviction, is evidence stark enough for any man of good will, but periodically a legal case comes to light for which the starkness is merely a charming background. This week it is the case of one Egor Zhukov, a 21-year-old university student who was arrested in July during the street demonstrations in Moscow. As evidence the judge was shown a police videotape of a young man...
Behold, the Bridegroom cometh: go ye out
With lighted lamps and garlands round about
To meet Him in a rapture with a shout.
