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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Feature / Wednesday's Child

8 Feb, 2017

Wednesday’s Child: Faking the News

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The other day I came across a book that was being advertized on Amazon, and it was called Christ’s Ventriloquists.  The blurb said it was “a work of investigative history” and the author described himself as an “investigative historian.”  Now, at the risk of giving the reader apoplexy, I want to quote from this blurb. The book, burbles the blurb, “documents and describes Christianity’s creation event, which occurred in Antioch 20 years after Jesus had been crucified in Jerusalem for sedition against Roman rule. At this event, Paul broke away from the Jewish sect that Jesus had begun, and he...

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FF / Podcasts / Season 1

7 Feb, 2017

FF Podcast, Episode 4: “Muslim Ban”

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In this special edition of the Fleming Foundation podcast, Dr. Srdja Trifkovic and Stephen Heiner discuss the so-called “Muslim Ban” of President Donald Trump, the domestic and worldwide response, and what the next 6-12 months might portend. Show Sponsor: Members Who Support Our Work Original Air Date: February 7, 2017 Show Run Time: 26 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner The Fleming Foundation · FF Podcast, Episode 4: “Muslim Ban” The Fleming Foundation Podcast℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2017. All Rights are Reserved.

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Feature / Fleming / From Under The Rubble

7 Feb, 2017

Trump and the Killers

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In recent weeks, there have been so many tempests in teapots, there is no room for tea.  (Hint to readers who are no good at metaphors:  tea = actual news.)  All Trump has to do is make an off-the-cuff but substantially true observation, and everyone goes wild—not just the official press of the Democratic Party, which is virtually all the major media outlets—but the Republican leadership. Case in point:  When the preposterous O’Reilly objected to Donald Trump’s polite words about Vladimir Putin, saying “But he’s a killer,” the President replied, “There are a lot of killers. You think our country’s...

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Fleming

6 Feb, 2017

The Left’s Right to Silence Dissent

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Trump’s first two weeks have been, if not especially interesting, predictably exciting.   A pattern has already begun to emerge:  Trump attempts to carry out one of the promises on which he successfully campaigned for the White House, and his measures are met with criticism, abuse, and public rioting.  It will be some time before we can know whether this pattern is merely a temporary panic attack or one that  holds for the duration of his term in office. By now my readers probably do not need to be told that the Bill of Rights does not protect people who...

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FF / Podcasts / Season 1

4 Feb, 2017

Christianity and Classical Culture, Episode 10: Odysseus and Ethics

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In this first podcast of 2017, Dr. Fleming explores the notion of “ethics” within the constructs of the Odyssey and within the character of Odysseus himself. Can a liar and someone unfaithful to his wife be seen to be ethical? What are ethics in the ancient world? And how do they relate to Christianity? Original Air Date: February 4, 2017 Show Run Time: 52 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner   Christianity and Classical Culture℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2017. All rights are reserved and any duplication without explicit written permission is forbidden.

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Fleming

2 Feb, 2017

The Xanthippe, Part 4: The Tyranny of Expertise

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Socrates:  Then where does this leave us? Xanthippe:  Why ask me?  You’re the philosopher in the family.  I have no idea where we are or even when we are.  Can this really be  Athens in the archonship of Diocles? Socrates: But even if you don’t know the time of day, you know where we stand in the argument.  First, we are agreed that Pheidippides’ philosophy, which he got third hand from the Scythian she-wolf, is false. We cannot simply dismiss our obligation to fellow-citizens by saying that everyone is master of himself. Xanthippe: :  Certainly we cannot. Socrates: So we...

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Feature / Wednesday's Child

1 Feb, 2017

Wednesday’s Child: This Way Up (5)

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“Well, where is the getting down to the nitty-gritty then, eh?  The bedroom stuff you promised us? ” What I want the reader to glean from the preceding, anticipating some of my yet stranger claims, is that the Pasternak family had been split from the beginning.  The female line, issuing from the mother, produced Boris and Josephine.  Alexander and Lydia took after the father. When it comes to genetic roulette, a special deity protects the integrity of the big loser.  Rosalia gambled away music, but ended up with a devoted husband.  Boris staked his all on being like everyone else,...

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All Paid Subscribers / Seiler

1 Feb, 2017

Trump’s First 10 Days: Battling Obstructionist Republicans in Congress

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By John Seiler President Trump – it’s great writing that! – now is facing a problem similar to that of President Reagan in 1981: His own fellow Republicans are obstructing his agenda. For Reagan, the main problem was the old “root canal Republicans,” such as Bob Dole, then the chairman of the Senate’s Finance Committee. The phrase derived from Democrats going on huge spending binges, then Republicans being the supposed “adults” who performed painful oral surgery with tax increases to pay for everything, as they did under President Eisenhower in 1953 and President Nixon in 1969. The result was Republicans...

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Peters

28 Jan, 2017

Robert’s Kinderszenen (Scenes From Childhood)

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When I entered the first grade – we did not have Kindergarten – I first encountered numerals posing as numbers. When we wrote the one’s – 1111111 – across the page, I was a whiz at mathematics; however, my primeval sense of logic rebelled at the notion that 1+1 could equal 2. Cats had little cats; plum trees had plums; 1’s could, therefore, only beget 1’s. In the third grade, we had to write, using Arabic numerals, from 1 to 10,000. When I got to 1,100, I thought that I was through. Earlier, before I started to school, I contemplated...

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Feature / Fleming / From Under The Rubble

28 Jan, 2017

Sanctuary: None Dare Call it Treason, Part I

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On Thursday (January 26) the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported: “A top official in Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration is no longer employed with the city after she was thrown out of a downtown restaurant last week for alleged intoxication and a confrontation that followed with police. Bettina Anjanete Gardner, deputy director of international affairs for the city, was arrested Jan. 19 and charged with disorderly while under the influence after an alleged run in with managers at the Hard Rock Cafe…  After she was arrested, Gardner told police “I have people in Washington” and suggested that she would involve a member...