Tag: isolationism

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Shyam Sankar & Madeline Hart
Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base & Stop World War III
New York: Bombardier Books, 2026

Sometime between the January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill protest and the point in 2021 where Biden’s cognitive decline was obvious to all but American liberals, America lost her ability to deter, and hard knocks have followed. The best way to prevent a war going forward is to be so militarily strong that no one dares to carry out an attack in the first place. (more…)

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So the last three weeks have been a doozy, haven’t they? After four months of Trump 2.0 going from victory to victory as he fulfilled campaign promises and trolled his enemies as only he can, the Trump Train finally skidded to an ignominious halt. (more…)

George W. Armstrong – 1866 to 1954.

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In the 1950s, Lieutenant General (Retired) George Van Horn Moseley led a forlorn rear-guard action against desegregation, “civil rights,” and Zionism. He attempted to speak at universities, but student protesters were able to cancel his talks and suppress his influence. Moseley was ahead of his time, however. “Civil rights” has been a disaster of crime and Africanized no-go zones. The 1964 Civil Rights Act has become an illicit second constitution. Throughout Moseley’s desperate fight against the adoption of the dystopian “civil rights” paradigm, he was supported by Judge George Washington Armstrong (1866 – 1954). (more…)

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Elizabeth Dilling
The Plot Against Christianity: The Jewish Religion and Its Influence Today
Lincoln, Nebr.: The Elizabeth Dilling Foundation, 1964

Many prominent Americans attempted to keep the United States neutral during the Jewish-led push to embroil the country in the Second World War. (more…)

Republican Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota.

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

North Dakota’s newspaperman

Understanding how Americans were duped into entering the First World War while preventing America entering a second war became the life’s work of a North Dakota isolationist and politician named Gerald Prentice Nye (1892-1971). (more…)

President Lyndon Johnson signing the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act into law, surrounded by his supporters.

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Part 6 of 9 (Chapter 1 here, Chapter 4 Part 2 here, Chapter 5 Part 2 here)

When a term has become so universally sanctified as “democracy” is now, I begin to wonder whether it means anything, in meaning too many things. — T. S. Eliot (more…)

Col. Robert McCormick during the First World War.

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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

Military mid-level management

McCormick’s military career couldn’t be replicated today. In today’s United States military, either a college student is recruited to take classes in military leadership, or an enlisted man is selected to attend officer candidate school. Then, after 12 years of service, he may be promoted to Major. At no time during those 12 years can the soldier leave the service, and he must serve in a series of specific jobs. Any deviation from the norm means no promotion. (more…)

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Peter Zeihan
Dis-United Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2020

About a year ago I ran into one of my old Army buddies. He’d been working a job that dealt with “foreign military sales.” That’s the tricky business of selling the export model of American-made military equipment to an ally without giving away some super-secret hardware, while not allowing said ally to use the equipment against another American ally. (more…)

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Part 1 here,  Part 2 here

You can watch The Big Parade in its entirety here.

Released in 1925, The Big Parade would go on to become the 2nd largest-grossing film of the entire silent film era. Only Birth of a Nation made more money. The Big Parade was so popular that it played in some theaters continuously for a year and at the Astor Theater in New York for two years. (more…)

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Part 2 here, Part 3 here

Tucker Carlson recently ruffled some feathers for calling WWI “the Iraq War of its day.” I’m not sure what these people were offended by. I think there are just people who get outraged by the things Tucker Carlson says first before coming up with a reason why (more…)

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Lynne Olson
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight over World War II, 1939–1941
New York: Random House, 2013

The idea of America First policy is back after a long hiatus. The first proponent for such a policy was none other than George Washington. (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Journey’s End, 2020.

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On December 18, 1620, the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Bay, on the western part of Cape Cod Bay. They were a small group of people, a mix of Protestant religious fanatics and venture capitalists. They would go on to found an enormously successful society. (more…)

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HBO has begun to air a new miniseries, The Plot Against America, an adaptation of the execrable eponymous Philip Roth novel. The series depicts an alternate reality, one in which aviation hero Charles Lindbergh ran for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1940 and defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (more…)