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Once upon a time there was a fairy kingdom that lived inside a place called The Beltway, and was surrounded on all four sides by a land called America. The Beltway was aligned with another kingdom called Manhattan, inhabited by disembodied heads that spoke from the walls of bars, and with yet another closed kingdom called Hollywood, the abode of half-educated narcissists. (more…)
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Oh-oh, yes, I’m the great pretender
Pretending that I’m doing well
My need is such, I pretend too much . . .
— The Platters, “The Great Pretender” (more…)
John Sartian, Martial Law (c. 1869)
John Sartian, Martial Law (c. 1869)
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Martial law (definition): Military government, involving the suspension of ordinary law.
Emergency (definition): a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.
What is the likelihood that the American people will soon experience the governance of martial law?
Extremely high, in my view. (more…)
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The ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict has been a tragedy of global proportions, not only for the combatants but the United States as well. (more…)
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“Reality”: the world or the state of things as they actually exist.
One succinct way to characterize the Western “democracies” is that they are, in all their various manifestations, anti-reality regimes. For starters, they are not really what they piously call themselves — “democracies” — in any accepted definition of the term. The governments of these countries are cabals of oligarchs who use political parties as fronts for advancing the interests of backroom, money-connected players. (more…)
Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan
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As a perpetually persecuted people who can’t catch a break no matter where they wind up after being kicked out of the previous country that learned to dislike them, Jews have endured way too much suffering to ever tolerate insults again. (more…)