The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary

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Let’s All Blame Biden and Feel Good About Ourselves

Biden’s performance as commander-in-chief is disastrous, but let us never forget that George Bush and his team of aspiring world-controlers had no valid reason for invading and destroying this rotten country–as I said before the invasion–and the only exit strategy that seemed likely is what is happening now

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The Silents: Reviews: Jacques Feyder (1885–1948)

Jacques Feyder just must be the font of French cinema in the Renoir tradition. Everything looks very on-location, everyone looks very real-life, every action is quite natural, every development is made as credible as possible through adept, unshowy camerawork, careful lighting, and naturalistic acting.

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Merrick Garland: American Vyshinsky

Andrey Vyshinsky was Stalin’s prosecutor during the Great Purge of 1936-39. He came up with the phrase, “Give me the man and I’ll find the crime.” That’s not remote. In 2009, Harvey Silvergate, a Boston civil rights lawyer, penned a book, “Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.” 

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Covid World Order

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Dr. Trifkovic discusses with a Stephen Heiner the new orientation of the world post-Covid, and why he does not believe this qualifies as a “pandemic” despite being hospitalized for the disease himself.

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Wednesday’s Child: Not Bread Alone

“The staff of life,” meaning bread, apparently gained wide currency in English in the wake of a misquotation of the Book of Psalms by a seventeenth-century Nonconformist, though I note that Jonathan Swift had used it some decades earlier. “Bread is the staff of life,” wrote the great English satirist, as therein is contained, “inclusive, the quintessence of beef, mutton, veal, venison, partridge, plum-pudding and custard.”

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Brief Announcement of Little Interest

An earlier less humorous version I meant to keep in draft mode got posted (by me). If you read it, please read the new version. I have post neither column nor comment since August 1.  This slacking is not due to heat–it has been in the very low 80’s here in  Rockford–nor pique with anyone or anything.  I’d spent much of a day eating out, smoking a cigar, and talking for hours and was not surprised to find I had a minor sore throat.