“What sort of government is it, that finds its strength and its justification before its own people in falsehoods? What is the destiny of a society that maintains and restores itself with injustice?” -Milovan Djilas, “The Unperfect Society” Lest readers start waving their arms and crying “Me! I can answer that! Over here!”, one …
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Okay, it’s official: courtesy of whoever has their hand up Joe Biden’s butt making his mouth move, the United States has become a Banana Republic. And I don’t mean a store where chichi young people buy overpriced clothes. When a sitting president marshals the country’s law enforcement agencies to neutralize his most prominent political rival, …
With the indictment of Donald Trump for a bookkeeping error our country has taken another step toward Soviet-style governance. Laverentiyy Beria, Stalin’s thug-in-chief who once quipped “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime,” couldn’t have been prouder. Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney bought by George Soros, has stepped up from pleading …
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 …
“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 …
In the aftermath of the Uvalde horror and the talking heads scrambling over the bodies of dead children to shriek their talking points, what else is there to say? A lot. No, we don’t need “commonsense gun control” which in the hands of the Left is always an oxymoron. We don’t need more “gun control …
It seems that the new mantra of the Progressive Left is “far-Right ‘Replacement’ conspiracy theory.” One heard it from the President in his May 17 commentary on the racist hatred that spawned the Tom’s supermarket shootings in Buffalo. And the thought was immediately parroted throughout the legacy media commentariat. Both the president and the unthinking …
Jackson Sparks. Virginia Sorenson. Tamara Durand. Jane Kulich. Wilhelm Hospel. LeAnna Owen. And sixty-two others, all attending a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21, 2021. The first six were killed by Darrell Brooks Jr. when he drove his SUV through barricades and then deliberately through the Christmas crowd at over 40 miles per …
Here’s a way to tell one is in the presence of genius: they can foretell the future. In 1947 British author C.S. Lewis completed and published “The Abolition of Man.” The slim volume was a collection of three lectures he gave at the University of Durham focusing on education. It makes chilling reading today because …
The figures are in, and they ain’t pretty. Now that the National Assessment of Educational Progress – known colloquially as the “nation’s report card” is out, we know that fourth-grade students have made no advances in math or reading since 2012. Thirty-four and thirty-one percent respectively were “proficient” then, thirty-four and thirty-one percent now. For …
