OK fine, it’s not Genocide… now what?

Last week the Economist spent a thousand words explaining to us why, techincally, what the Chinese are doing to the ethnic Uyghurs is not genocide. Their argument is that a genocide requires that the offending regime be actively slaughtering people. Otherwise it’s just (gasp!) “persecution.” On the one hand, I think this a weird hill… Continue reading OK fine, it’s not Genocide… now what?

Never Again… again…

My very first post on the re-launched CONTINENTAL CONGRESS was this one, titled NEVER AGAIN?. In it, I described the basic template that Totalitarian Societies use to first silence, then imprison, and finally, to eliminate political or social undesirables… however they define that term. The Gina Carano affair proves, as if any further proof were… Continue reading Never Again… again…

That way lies Evil

This is evil. And I don’t use that word lightly… To save you the click, this is the story of a University Professor forced to submit to unecessary medical procedures as a condition of keeping his job after expressing “wrongthink.” In one of my first posts, titled NEVER AGAIN?, I quoted Burt Lancaster’s famous speech… Continue reading That way lies Evil

Treason: A Matter of Dates

UPDATE: Thanks to Kurt Schlichter for yet another Schlichter-lanche! While ya’ll are here, be sure to bookmark the main page and come back often, y’hear? Since we suddenly find outselves on the subject of Domestic Terrorism, I find myself thinking of a quote by Alexandre Dumas… or, at least, the version delivered by Colonel Stewart… Continue reading Treason: A Matter of Dates

Burning Books

Burning books, both literally and figuratively, is coming back into fashion. Sadly, this makes a twisted sort of sense. As we willfully and deliberately forget more and more of our history, there remain fewer and fewer cultural mile markers, like the Nazis, to remind us that burning books is anti-intellectual at best, destructive and evil… Continue reading Burning Books

Never Again?

This morning I woke up and sent this paragraph to a group of friends with whom I share a political email chain…. “Too many people think that the ideological spectrum is a line and not enough realize that it’s actually a circle. This is what allows people on the Left to act as awfully as… Continue reading Never Again?