The building blocks of this essay have been swimming around in my head for a couple of years but until now I had not been able to string all the pieces together. What made the difference for me was that I finally sat down and read THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO (which you should go do yourself,… Continue reading A Template for Political Terror in America
Category: Fascism
There is nothing so dangerous as a cornered President…
We all know that the Biden Presidency is a failure. It seems crazy to say that after only nine months, but it’s also quite obviously true. Everything that Biden has touched has turned to mud and he has so little political capital left after less than a year of bumbling through the White House yelling… Continue reading There is nothing so dangerous as a cornered President…
It’s long past time for mass civil disobedience
It’s painfully clear to me now, and should be to you as well, that the various COVID restrictions in effect both Federally and at the State and Local levels are never, not ever, going away. If you had any lingering doubts, they should have been swept away by Joe Biden’s off the cuff decision to… Continue reading It’s long past time for mass civil disobedience
The Revenge of the Buzzwords (Part 2: Angry White Men)
Now that Ole Joe and the band have opened the show with “Conspicuous Consumption”, and now that the fans in the front row have dutifully begun to scream enthusiastically at the familiar opening notes, the band is planning to bring the house down with a big encore performance of “Angry White Men.” Except this time… Continue reading The Revenge of the Buzzwords (Part 2: Angry White Men)
When regular folks pay for law enforcement failure (gun control edition)
So in an utterly unshocking development, we are now learning that the FedEx shooter was already known to law enforcement… that was true in at least one other recent mass shooting, as well. But now, having failed to protect us, Law Enforcement will partner with the Democrats to try and make responsible, legal gun owners… Continue reading When regular folks pay for law enforcement failure (gun control edition)
The Return of the Gun Show “Loophole”
One of my first posts on this site was a righteous fisking of an Economist article on gun violence, in which I called it the worst gun violence article of the year (so far). Now, technically, what Joe Biden said yesterday about the (alleged) Gun Show Loophole, was not an article, but it’s pretty damned… Continue reading The Return of the Gun Show “Loophole”
Escaping a Rigged System
Angelo Codevilla has an essential piece today on the necessity of a new American Exodus from the vast emerging commercial and governmental system of Elites that is increasingly contrary to the idea of republican self-government. The essential argument is that things have gone too far and it is far too late for us to “vote… Continue reading Escaping a Rigged System
Cancelling the Cancel Culture economy
I’ve always been a huge history buff, and especially the history of the war in Viet Nam. Partly because of that interest, and partly because I just wanted to see a part of the world that wasn’t Europe, I traveled to Viet Nam back in 2000. Most of the sites we visited were done as… Continue reading Cancelling the Cancel Culture economy
Cancel Doctor Seuss?
Well… you can have my kids’ copy of THE GRINCH when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Jodi Shaw: American Hero
I think a lot of us have a sense that there is something deeply wrong in America. The sense that there is an army of half-assed mediocre-brained wannabe authoritarians sweeping through our institutions using fear, intimidation, and cancel culture to reshape those institutions in their own vaguely Marixist, and entirely stupid, image. A lot of… Continue reading Jodi Shaw: American Hero