Our republic seems perilously close to its decadent phase, in which anonymous bureaucrats of a bloated central government connive with political demagogues to establish a tyranny in which they think they will rule forever. They are wrong about the last bit of course, but their actions may well destroy the country we know and which …
Category Archives: On Government
The Deeply Evil State
Thank God for Elon Musk. One may love him, hate him, think him mad as a March Hare – but there is no doubt that the documents he has dumped from the corporate memory of Twitter reveals to anyone with the slightest bit of curiosity both the evil behind the anodyne term “deep state” and …
Joe’s Potemkin Border
In 1762, a princess from an obscure German principality became Catherine II, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russians. She rapidly became one of the most powerful rulers of her day and is still one of the most powerful political women in all human history. She probably conspired to have her husband, Peter III, murdered …
Refusing to Learn
Today, we have something to remember. Eighty-one years ago at 7:50 am on a peaceful Sunday morning in Hawaii, to use the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” For us, it was the beginning of a global war …
Bizarro World
It’s official – we now live in Bizarro World. Hakeem Jefferies, “election denier” extraordinaire, is now the House Democrats’ Minority Leader. No one turns a hair. Twitter’s Elon Musk is now spewing out reams of communication between the former Lords of Twitter and White House and Democrat party apparatchiks detailing how to throttle stories unflattering to …
Lies, Ignorance or Hypocrisy?
They just won’t give up. “The president is illegitimate,” one recently bleated. “The election was stolen.” “The election was no good,” added another. The entire leadership in Washington concurred. There was theft. There was voter interference. There was denial of the franchise and other heinous fuckery resulting in a stolen election. But enough about Democrats. …
Evil in Legal Clothing
Want to have a look at genuine evil? It’s rare that we get a chance. Revolutionary France’s 1793 “Law of Suspects,” our 1857 Dred Scott decision and Nazi Germany’s 1941 “Night and Fog” decree are historical examples. For a more contemporary take, try reading California bill AB 2223, now state law having been approved on …
Baltic Jacuzzi Follies
There’s all manner of speculation about the huge amounts of natural gas boiling up in the Baltic from the NordStream I pipeline. Tucker Carlson squeals that Biden did it to help his fascist buddy in Ukraine. Others speculate that some undefined terrorist group did it for some unannounced reason, or even that Vlad the Terrible …
Democrats’ Border Lies
Joe Biden and his lackeys are lying to you again. From the man himself – or whomever forms the words he tries to speak in his public appearances – to his vice-president to his inept spokesperson to the bureaucratic gangsters infesting his administration, another Big Lie is being spread. “The southern border is closed,” they …
The “Equity” Swindle
“Aliis si licet, tibi non licet.” – Terence, Second Century BC Roman playwright Were he alive today, Terence could explain much of what is happening in our own foundering Republic. Consider the line above from his work “Heauton Timōroumenos.” In true Roman fashion it goes straight to the heart of the matter. “What is permitted …
