I refer you to Fran Porretto’s excellent Knots which fully engaged my own thoughts. It prompted me to seek some deeper thoughts from AIs. Brave’s LEO under-performed. But X’s Grok actually laid out a quite thorough analysis. I asked Grok 3: In what ways could Trump’s moves revive classical liberalism as a legitimate party. Assume …
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Feb 25 2025
The European Establishment Laager
If you haven’t encountered the word laager before this, it’s a feature of certain European languages and languages derived from them (e.g., Afrikaans). It denotes a fortified camp, the sort that a besieged military unit, or a community under attack, will form in the hope of standing off its attackers. It’s a formation that’s …
Jan 16 2025
Desiccation In Progress
[W]e are told that there is no need to fear the concentration of power in government so long as that power is checked by the electoral process. We are urged to believe that so long as we can express our disagreement in words, we have our full rights to disagree. Now both freedom of …
Dec 24 2024
Crafting Permission
I cannot over-praise this Clarice Feldman article at American Thinker. Please read it all. For some time now, the principal aim of the strategists and kingmakers of the political Establishment has been to engineer the appearance of popular assent to government policies which, in point of fact, are severely detrimental to the fortunes …
Nov 22 2024
Swamp Rats Scurrying
Sadly, Gaetz’ withdrawal got them some more breathing room. This, Matt Gaetz: What Actually Happened, provides readers some more inkling on the intricate methods of the worst Swamp creatures. On how many people in DC do they have stronger strings they have been threatening to pull? I’m surmising on at least 4 GOP senators. So …
Oct 26 2024
The King Of The Establishmentarians
…is none other than Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party in an upcoming biography, saying the “MAGA movement is completely wrong” and that Ronald Reagan “wouldn’t recognize” the party today. “I think Trump was the biggest factor in changing the …
Oct 16 2024
Localism And The Establishment
Among the things the late Clarence Carson deplored in his masterwork The American Tradition was the erosion of our traditional localism as the federal government has expanded into ever more areas of American life. Garet Garrett expressed a consistent view in The People’s Pottage. He quotes a governor of Kansas to this effect: …
Oct 13 2024
Our Protector Against Memory Holing Under Attack 3 days — UPDATED
Webarchive Current Status In recent news, the Internet Archive’s WebArchive (also known as Wayback Machine) has been affected by a security breach. On October 11, 2024, it was reported that the organization’s authentication database, containing information for 31 million registered users, was compromised. The stolen data includes email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, and …
Oct 12 2024
The Ratchet
Do you remember the year of 2020? Brandon Smith does: The events of 2020 were meant to initiate the ultimate coup against humanity. The globalists admitted to their plans over and over again. Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum proudly declared covid the catalyst for the “Great Reset” and the “Fourth Industrial …
Sep 20 2024
When Kurt Schlichter Is Hot
…he’s volcanic: The elite wants what we’re now getting: an administrative state where experts who just happen to share all the priorities and prejudices of the elite make all the decisions. Do you wonder why the left is so concerned about controlling academia? Because that’s where experts are made, and you don’t get …
Sep 18 2024
The Terror Is Evident
In the wake of the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump, noted philanthropist and stateswoman Hillary Rodham Clinton deposeth and sayeth: “The press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should,” Clinton told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “They careen from one outrage to the next … I don’t understand why …
Sep 17 2024
Pager-Gate About To Erupt
Headline: Thousands Injured In Mysterious Pager Explosions The opportunity to bash the Big and Little Satan is too good to pass up. Could it be due to the Iranian geniuses needing to provide new fodder for its globalist press allies? That question will never be brokered by the other geniuses who blame Trump for the …
Sep 17 2024
Will We Miss It?
“Change is hard, and difficulty makes people impatient.” — Arthur Herzog “It’s dangerous to challenge a system unless you’re completely at peace with the thought that you’re not going to miss it when it collapses.” — Jules Feiffer There are days that I wonder. “The system” – i.e., the current, reigning …
Sep 08 2024
Legitimacy, Its Departure, And What Follows
You’ve heard the term failed state, haven’t you? It’s been used a few times in recent years, notably with reference to Libya after the death of longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi. We don’t often hear the term elucidated, but a working definition would be a state that cannot maintain order within its zone of asserted …
Aug 02 2024
For Connoisseurs Of Patterns
Much talk about the political Establishment focuses on the “Deep State” or unelected portion of the federal government: its power and entrenched nature. That’s quite a legitimate focus of concern. But there’s another area that deserves attention: the dominance of particular families in elections for the highest offices, win or lose. Here’s a …
Jul 19 2024
Cincinnati
No, not the city in Ohio. If you don’t know about Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus: Lucius Quinctius (or Quintius) Cincinnatus (c. 519 – c. 430 BC) was a Roman patrician, statesman, and military leader of the early Roman Republic who became a legendary figure of Roman virtue— particularly civic virtue —by the time of the …
Jul 17 2024
Shame And Guilt
Last Saturday’s disastrous performance by the Secret Service detachment assigned to President Trump has evoked huge amounts of commentary. Some opinioneers are claiming that the evidence can’t point to anything but a Secret Service tasked to permit Trump’s assassination. Others are of the opinion that it was merely a demonstration of the low estate …
Jul 04 2024
Happy Birthday, America
It’s number 248, if we don’t count the very first one. Time was, I would print the core section of the Declaration of Independence here, as my commemoration of the original event. It’s one of the greatest passages of prose ever set down, and it deserves to be proclaimed all over the world. …
Jun 20 2024
Lunatics Have Taken Over No. 2
Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Against Oklahoma’s Ban on Changing Sex on Birth Certificates. This series originated with the thought that lunatics were being given permission to take over. However, there appears to be quite a few people in black robes who any decent person would rather not have to engage even in casual conversation. Given …
May 15 2024
Additions to Ace’s Skepticism
Disinformation Expert Ace posted the following: Biden “Accepts” Offer to Debate, With Special Conditions to Protect Biden; Trump, for Some Lunatic Reason, Accepts His Terms. After each of the news items he offered up bits of doubt, sarcasm and skepticism. For instance Your first offer is accepted without reservations! This guy wrote The Art of …
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