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Barack Obama
A Promised Land
Crown Publishing, New York City, 2020
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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Full disclosure. I have only read the first half of the 768 pages of volume one of President Obama’s memoirs. I will write a second review when I finish it – maybe. (more…)
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Paul Kersey
Escape From Detroit: The Collapse of America’s Black Metropolis
Antelope Hill, 2025 (CreateSpace, 2012)
Well, you know what they say about Detroit; it’s all fun and games ’til they shoot you in the face. – Roger Sterling, Mad Men (S06E12)
Every lie told about equality and race dies with Detroit. – Paul Kersey (more…)
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Back when liberalism was still a good thing, for the most part – that is to say, the 18th century – all this was quite an advance. Up to that point, absolutist monarchy had been nearly ubiquitous since the end of the toga-and-sandal days. Although there have been some outstanding kings, far more have been despots. (more…)
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Whether we like it or not, most people aren’t deep thinkers. This is especially so for those who pointedly tout themselves as independent minds. For quite some time, it’s been a common problem for leftists, who usually have no idea who implanted the ideas into their soft heads. One notable effect is that their rhetoric usually resembles a tapestry of strung-together clichés, which is a symptom of what their diminished mental universe looks like. (more…)
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Biden is out. Trump is in. Is that a good thing for those of us who wonder if we were awake for the last four years or in an extended nightmare populated by a rogues’ gallery of psychopaths, racketeers, grafters, swindlers, weirdos and sundry lowlifes? (more…)
Satellite view of Los Angeles fires from the Copernicus Sentinel-3
Satellite view of Los Angeles fires from the Copernicus Sentinel-3
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Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc.
-Roy Batty, Blade Runner.
Los Angeles is burning. The ongoing conflagration in California’s largest city is a testament to the destructive nature of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. (more…)
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The day after Trump’s reelection, a record 115,000 X users deactivated their accounts. A week later, the microblogging site Bluesky—AKA “Twitter for Pedophiles”—boasted that it had gained a million new followers. (more…)
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Anyone who can sing, dance, or act is simultaneously gifted with tremendous wisdom concerning geopolitics, economics, and political science. Well, that’s what they seem to think, anyway. Predictably, the moment the election didn’t go their way, lefty celebs have been howling like they’re undergoing an exorcism. Why so blue? (more…)
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Most factions opposed to the left, ranging from most mainstream conservatives to those of a more radical, enlightened persuasion, are elated as much by the defeat of Kamala-Walz as they are by the victory of Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential Campaign. (more…)
P’Nut the Squirrel. Image taken from his social media.
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P’Nut the Squirrel. Image taken from his social media.
On October 30, 2024, agents from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (currently led by commissioner Sean Mahar, who is Jewish), raided the home of Mark Longo, where they captured an orphaned squirrel named P’Nut and a pet raccoon named Fred. (more…)
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November 4, Day 1
On the gathering storm comes a tall, handsome man
With a dusty black coat and a red right hand.
Nick Cave, Red Right Hand
Watching The US Presidential Election as an Englishman, and watching it from Central America, I feel simultaneously close to the action and far removed from it. (more…)
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Whenever people scream, cry, and punch themselves in the face about Donald Trump, it’s predicated on some dimly conceived but barely articulated notion that he’s going to take away their “rights.”
He already had four years to take away your rights. Name ONE right that he stole from you. (more…)
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When George Orwell arrived in Aragon to fight against Franco in 1937, it wasn’t the poor state of the weaponry that worried him, and it wasn’t the enemy. As chronicled in Homage to Catalonia, he was more alarmed at the number of factional squabbles there were on his side. In-fighting in the face of the enemy similarly afflicts the political Right today, and the call to “unite the Right” is a forlorn cry in the wilderness. (more…)