Tag: Barack Obama

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The Rise of Trumpism 1.0

“But we — Communists, the party — will not divide power with anyone.” (more…)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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He [Rousseau] had nothing new, but he set everything on fire. — Madame de Staël

Starting from unlimited freedom I arrive at unlimited despotism. — Shigalev, in Dostoevsky’s The Devils

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, not Karl Marx is the real father and inspiration for the theater of the absurd that is today’s Left. Rousseau’s “Man is born free, everywhere he is in chains” is the original formulation of the adolescent anarchist rally-cry, “Rage against the machine!” (more…)

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

Harold had planned to quit after A Mighty Fortress, but there was another story to be told, and a few months later, in late 2005, I found a manuscript in my mail. I opened it, smelling the heavy aroma of tobacco and old paper as I set my eyes upon a draft of The Brigade, Harold’s fourth Northwest novel. I agreed to be one of the proofreaders, and got to work. (more…)

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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Black Men Can’t Float,” on the recent drowning death of the Obamas’ personal cook, Tafari Campbell, outside their residence in Martha’s Vineyard. (more…)

Tafari Campbell

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Around 20 years ago, when the Somali pirates started popping up in the news, I was intrigued because you don’t expect to hear that black people are into boating.

Not that I’m much of a seafarer myself — when I recently heard that Barack Obama’s former White House chef “tragically drowned during a paddleboarding excursion in Martha’s Vineyard” on Monday evening, July 24, I didn’t even know what “paddleboarding” was. (more…)

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The recent overwhelmingly hostile public response to this year’s Pride Month is encouraging. Pushback against the LGBTQ agenda should not be entirely surprising, as it’s been a long time in coming. Two years ago, governors from socially conservative states were vetoing anti-trans legislation, but nowadays, they’ve changed their outlook. (more…)

Lisa Edwards, shortly before her unnecessary death.

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In response to 2014’s absurdly overblown and preposterously misguided public outrage over Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Missouri , President Barack Obama asked the federal government to allocate $263 million to provide police departments nationwide with body cameras so they could finally film all these white-supremacist cops wantonly and sadistically brutalizing black bodies in the streets. (more…)

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It seems ironic that Tom George’s 2022 film See How They Run was released in England a day before Queen Elizabeth’s death. The film, a whodunit that follows the genre’s steps like following footprints in the snow, wants to be funny and breathe life into the old form. But, like recent events with the monarchy, this film is a kind of death watch on England and English culture, especially that middlebrow artifact known as the murder mystery. (more…)

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“We are determined that nothing shall stop us from sharing with you all that we have . . .  Generations unborn will owe a great measure of freedom to the unconquerable power of the Soviet people.”[1] — Harry Hopkins, Advisor to FDR, “Madison Square Garden Speech,” June 22, 1942 (more…)

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Whoa Nellie! Stop for a moment. Ask yourself three questions about this photo I recently encountered.

Where did I see it? (more…)

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Frequent Counter-Currents writer Stephen Paul Foster was host Nick Jeelvy‘s honored guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they discussed The Best Month Ever — a selection of particularly interesting Counter-Currents articles published in May 2022. (more…)

Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife shortly before their televised execution on December 25, 1989.

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“A regime built on lies always ends in collapse.” — Z-Man, “An Empire of Lies”

Solipsism: a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing. (more…)