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Trump Is Only Western Statesman Who Wants Peace

Over the last quarter of a century, the West has become a really weird place in which virtue signaling has almost completely replaced actual virtue in the public forum, and the most brutal sentimentality has largely replaced genuine feeling. For years in the West, we have been strangely bereft of real men in public affairs—the sort of guys who emanate the natural authority that comes from competence and from habitually choosing to be governed by reason instead of emotion.

Because of Trump’s some...

Alex Berenson on Why There’s No Current Media Scare About the Flu…and the Latest Freaky Effects of the Covid Shots (2.20.25)

Regardless of one’s specific take on virology, vaccines, etc., it’s nice to see the legacy media, public-health agencies, and allopaths lose so much credibility since the pandemic. Better late than never, some people are waking up. Plus:
1) Why do some people still have spike protein in their blood two years after their last mRNA shot?
2) Why has there been a rise in T-cell abnormalities among recipients of the mRNA shots?
Yale medical professors have no clue. What a shock!

The post Alex Ber...

How to Identify When the U.S. Empire Is Lying

A good and typical example of how the U.S. empire does it is this ‘news’-report on February 19th from Politico damning the end of the 1945-2025 Cold War by the U.S. Government to conquer Russia, and trying to extend the latest phase of that War (the Ukraine-war phase), which the U.S. Government started in 2014. Politico headlined about it as-if the aggression was by Russia against America, instead of being aggression by the U.S. against Russia (which it is): “Trump’s America is Putin’s ally now:...

The Real Enemy of the American people Is Not Russia, but the EU Regime in Brussels

In his seminal speech at the recently concluded Munich Security Conference, US Vice President JD Vance said the following:

“[T]he threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values: values shared with the United States of America.”

Vance’s words convey a paradigm-changing truth that few have yet grasped.

The truth is this:...

The Democrats Are Standing Against America

This is my interview by Larry Sparano of a few days ago prior to my learning, as I posted yesterday, that the temporary injunctions that judges are issuing against Trump and Musk’s activities in rooting out corruption from the federal budget are only good for a few days and are not effective except in the sense of giving the corrupt elements in the federal departments and agencies a few days to hide, erase, destroy, and “lose” evidence before Musk can get his hands on it.

To be effective in bloc...

It’s Time We Stop Singing About Ourselves at Mass

What is “good” Mass music? As a parish music director, I have often pondered this question. The Church gives clear instructions concerning the implementation of music within the Mass. For instance, the Church stipulates that the most important thing to be sung is the dialogue between the priest and the people: the Order of the Mass.

The next important thing is the Ordinary of the Mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, etc.). The next thing sung should be the Propers (Introit, Responsorial Psalm [Gradual]...

A Critique of Pure Cant

Q. How many light bulbs does it take to change a philosophy?

A. Depends how you define good lighting.

When something goes by a name that means “the love of wisdom,” finding anything worthwhile in it depends on how you define wisdom. If you get off being mired in redundancy and rhetorical twister philosophy is just the sport. The deconstructionists, post-modernists, Nazis and neo-fascists all swear by Nietzsche; his canon turns out a multi-purpose ideological vehicle for the ride to dystopia. Onc...

Coming Monetary Reset and Trump’s Impact on Gold and the Dollar

International Man: At $1.1 trillion, annualized interest on the US federal debt is now the second-largest budget item—and is on track to become the largest.

Meanwhile, long-term interest rates are climbing, even as the Fed lowers short-term rates.

Can the US government keep kicking the can down the road? Or will Trump have to reset the system?

Doug Casey: Starting in the 1960s, a growing number of people noticed the size of the debt and annual deficits. Even back then—when numbers were trivial c...

Class Warfare: The Exploitation of Taxpayers by Federal Workers

“Workers across the country responded with anger and confusion,” the Associated Press reported last week, in response to the Trump administration’s layoffs of probationary workers. CBS News tells us “federal workers express shock, anger over mass firings,” and The New York Times writes that federal works face “sleeplessness, anger and tears.”

Some workers launched lawsuits against the Trump administration. Others went on legacy media television shows to claim they have been mistreated.

The media...

Hate For Trump Has Now Expanded To Musk

The hatred in the hearts and minds of many on the Left is just astounding. Having spent a lifetime closely following and being involved in the American political scene, I have never seen anything as extreme as the bitter hatred and anger directed toward Donald Trump.

Now, just as love expands so that a parent can love a second and third child as much as the first, apparently political hatred can expand, too.

While the hatred for President Trump has not abated, and in fact has grown because of ma...