You’re an intelligent and erudite person, aren’t you, Gentle Reader? I certainly hope so. Which means you’re already cognizant of the old saying that “war is a continuation of diplomacy by other means.” While it’s not absolutely true in every applicable respect, it contains a terrifying insight. In a peacetime situation (“Peace: a …
Category: The Left
Nov 29 2024
There Is Only One Guaranteed Remedy
Mark Steyn put us on notice long ago: If it were just terrorists bombing buildings and public transit, it would be easier; even the feeblest Eurowimp jurisdiction is obliged to act when the street is piled with corpses. But there’s an old technique well understood by the smarter bullies. If you want to break …
Nov 25 2024
Outlets
The Left’s control of the communications industry – education, entertainment, news media – privileged them politically for several decades. They still command the heights in those three areas. However, they don’t want dominance; they want total, unblemished control: Staff are protesting against a new US imprint of global publisher Hachette Book Group (HBG) …
Nov 18 2024
Everything Old Is New Again Dept.
To get a truly broad sense of the insanity rampant throughout our species – a copious supply of evidence to that effect, at any rate – there’s no substitute for a single book: Charls Mackay’s immortal 1852 study Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Today, mindful of this evil, I reproduce a …
Nov 16 2024
You Can Feel The Hatred From Here
So! Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who recently changed her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, has been selected to be Director of National Intelligence, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t like it: New York Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Tulsi Gabbard for the position of director of national intelligence, …
Nov 09 2024
What We Know Now
The fourth word in the title is the one to stress. There is much that we suspected – including a few things we were sure of but could not prove definitively – that we now know to be incontrovertible. The evidence is unimpeachable. The implications are unavoidable. (And ending three sentences in a row …
Nov 07 2024
The Questions Being Asked Now
Some of them are on my mind, too. As usual, Sundance at The Last Refuge puts the crux of the matter clearly and concisely: Now that we know the basic 2024 raw vote total, we are able to put a scale on the number of fraudulent mail-in ballots from the 2020 election. …
Nov 06 2024
It’s Over
And thank a merciful God for that. I have questions still, as I’m sure many Gentle Readers do. Foremost among them: Why did the Left’s vote-theft and vote-fraud efforts fail this time? Considering the Usurpers’ fears of Trumpian retaliation, they had to be as earnest as they were in 2020. At least the …
Oct 31 2024
Looking Ahead
Just five days to go. The campaign that’s seemed interminable is coming to an end… or is it? Do political campaigns ever end these days, or do they just take a different shape? There are a lot of ugly possibilities ahead of us. It’s unclear which ones are the ugliest. It’s equally unclear …
Oct 31 2024
Coming To You Direct From The Landfill
Voters are incensed about Biden’s “garbage” remark. It was a classic “Kinsley gaffe:” an occasion on which a politician fails to censor himself and lets slip the truth about what he thinks or feels. But it wasn’t Biden’s first. Remember this exchange with a Detroit auto worker? Biden has always regarded himself as above …
Oct 29 2024
If You Need More Reasons To Detest the Mainstream Media
…you needn’t look far: Thousands of Trump supporters packed the “World’s Most Famous Arena” to hear remarks by high-profile speakers, including an address from former first lady Melania Trump, before the former president took the stage. But instead of observing a Republican nominee drawing a massive crowd in the middle of a blue …
Oct 26 2024
The Left Will Not Be Balked By Godwin’s Law
Mike Godwin’s contribution to the analysis of political rhetoric states that: Godwin’s law (or Godwin’s rule of Nazi analogies) is an Internet adage asserting that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1″—that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes …
Oct 18 2024
The Predicted Acting-Out
I’ve quoted this before, from the late, lamented Florence King: Did your Congressman fuck a Doberman on the steps of the Capitol? He’s guilty of bad judgment, not dog-fucking. Who said anything about dog-fucking? Where in the world did you get that idea? Dog-fucking has nothing to do with dog-fucking. It’s a question …
Oct 17 2024
“Bar The Exit Door!”
One thing that’s perfectly consistent among totalitarians of all stripes is that they don’t like for anyone to escape them. Enough escapees and the totalitarian could find himself exercising power over… no one. What fun would that be? Today, governments control the habitable land surface of the Earth. (Only penguins consider Antarctica habitable.) …
Oct 15 2024
“Private Enemy #1”
The Left cannot abide superb individual achievement: You remember how one of the Greek Dictators (they called them “tyrants” then) sent an envoy to another Dictator to ask his advice about the principles of government. The second Dictator led the envoy into a field of grain, and there he snicked off with his …
Oct 07 2024
Leftism Is A Mental Illness Dept.
Perhaps this should go in the “you can’t make this stuff up” file: In California, we’re forced to drink out of paper straws but in Georgia, Kamala Harris supporters can go to a rage cage and destroy perfectly good plates for an agenda that Trump doesn’t even support. So much for joy and the …
Sep 18 2024
The Explanatory Power Of Envy
First, a few words from an obscure Fifties novel: “I’d like to see him beaten,” he said. “I’d like to hear him scream with pain, just once.” “You won’t, Jimmy.” “Why does he think he’s better than the rest of us—he and that sister of mine?” She chuckled. He …
Sep 12 2024
Fearful Heirs Of Critical Theory Now Censor Their Critics
When the Left initiated Critical Theory a hundred years ago, their thrusts were markedly subtle. They grasped small advances by posing questions of the sort “Are you absolutely certain what you have been doing is the best course of action?” Today hardly any of their movers would recognize subtlety if they tripped over it. One …
Sep 12 2024
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up Dept.
I missed this one: So, Gentle Readers with minor children or grandchildren: Do you “unfairly advantage” your kids? If not, why not? Do it! It’s fun!
Sep 10 2024
Why We Must Remember
Much of the propaganda and deceit that’s purveyed today, particularly by “our” political class and their boughten allies in the media, can be defeated by cultivating a retentive memory. In that regard, the Internet’s “memory” is a great aid, for the Internet remembers everything: right, wrong, or indifferent. I have a cassette tape …
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