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There is a silver lining to the black cloud that is the ongoing Iran War. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) assets have been moved from South Korea to the Persian Gulf. How should Americans walk away from South Korea? By any means necessary.
Otherwise, the breakout of the Iran War is a frustrating disappointment. It appears the Israelis have gotten us into yet another desert disaster. (more…)
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Saleha Mohsin
Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order
New York: Portfolio, 2024
[. . . ] in April 2023, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva drew loud applause from an audience of Chinese dignitaries in Shanghai when he heralded the demise of the dollar. “Every night I ask myself why all countries have to base their trade on the dollar. Who was it that decided that the dollar was the currency after the disappearance of the gold standard?” he asked the delighted crowd. (more…)
Pixabay, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pixabay, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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BRICS—named for the first five nations which entered the pact, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is a serious danger to America. The BRICS hazard comprises three separate threats. The first is an alternative banking and financial system which is opposed to the US dollar. The second consists of military threats which include aggressive Russian forces in Eastern Europe and the Arctic as well as Chinese military pressure in the Indo-Pacific. The BRICS bloc has already militarily cooperated. (more…)
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Jonathan Blitzer
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The Untied States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
New York: Penguin Press, 2024
The Central American immigrant caravans were serious threats during Trump’s first presidency, and the key component of the border crisis during senile Joe Biden’s occupation of the White House. The roots of the crisis were not new, however. (more…)
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John Ganz
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024
With the inspiration of the death of the Soviet Union before us, we now know that it can be done. We shall break the clock of social democracy. We shall break the clock of the Great Society. We shall break the clock of the welfare state. (more…)
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Sam Tanenhaus
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
New York: Random House, 2025
This month the Postal Service issues a new “Forever” stamp honoring William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008). Its portrait is distinguished by a) being black-and-white, like a photograph, and b) not looking an awful lot like the gentleman in question. (more…)
Richard Kelly Hoskins
Richard Kelly Hoskins
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It is ironic that Virginia’s expansive ethno-culture [1] benefits from complex commercial activity and global trade while being damaged by the same. Virginia’s main early money-making venture was the tobacco trade, which needed a large and complicated system of finance and commerce before a single penny could be made. (more…)
George H.W. Bush. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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George H.W. Bush. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The common narrative regarding the career of George Herbert Walker Bush, is that the 41st US President was a good man who put a steady hand upon the tiller of the ship of state. In international affairs, this was unquestionably true. (more…)
Lt. Col. James Gordon “Bo” Gritz
Lt. Col. James Gordon “Bo” Gritz
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Part 1 of 2
The 1992 United States presidential election was one in which both candidates for the two mainstream parties offered the electorate nothing more than sweeping neo-liberal economic policies as well as continued military involvement in far-off foreign lands. The third-party candidate who had different ideas was Ross Perot, a Texas billionaire. Perot won 18% of the national vote, taking votes which otherwise might have gone to Bush, thus helping Bill Clinton to win. (more…)
The purpose of the Council of Chalcedon in 451 was to determine the nature of Christ. It also determined the relationship of the state to Divine Providence.
The purpose of the Council of Chalcedon in 451 was to determine the nature of Christ. It also determined the relationship of the state to Divine Providence.
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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)
Making Gains
With a base of conservative, mostly old-stock American white women as supporters, Rushdoony started to make real gains. He researched and commented upon the early councils of the Christian Church and applied their outcomes to American society. One such council was the Council of Chalcedon. (more…)
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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)
The Iran-Contra Affair is an almost forgotten relic of the 1980s. The story of the episode has been overwhelmed by the spectacular events which followed: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Persian Gulf War, and so on. (more…)
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Michael Malice
The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil
Independently Published, 2022
What a joy to open this book and find that whatever the author’s White Pill is supposed to be, it somehow involves Ayn Rand (AR). It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand (1971, by Jerome Tuccille) was the name of an actual book that came out when I was in my teens and going through my own brief Objectivist period. The book is a funny saga about the author’s time as a militant libertarian. (more…)
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