Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 2341

First Amendment 101

NEW YORK—It’s been a rough year for stump speaking in general, but let’s make a resolution for 2018:

We need to start listening to these White Pride guys in the polo shirts and khaki pants.

And we need to start arresting the Antifa thugs.

Liberals and conservatives alike should agree that the pattern of these events over the past year has become obvious and odious:

The Alt-Right announces a rally, demonstration or speakers program.

Their enemies organize a campaign to “disrupt” the event. Tha...

Resisting Jesus

Griffin Internet Syndicate, 12/23/2004 — As always in our time, Christmas is provoking dissent from people who don’t want Christian symbols on public property or Christmas carols sung in public schools.

Many Christians find this annoying and churlish. Some even feel that Christianity is being persecuted.

The columnist Michelle Malkin writes, “We are under attack by Secularist Grinches Gone Wild.” Pat Buchanan goes so far as to speak of “hate crimes” against Christians.

I disagree. In some par...

Gold Will Soar

Nick Giambruno’s Note: I recently spoke with my friend and colleague Chris Lowe about China’s new alternative financial system—and how it could mortally wound the US dollar. It was such an important discussion that I had to pass it along.

Chris is the editor of Bonner & Partners’ Inner Circle. His publication shares insights from Bill Bonner’s personal global network of analysts and investment experts.

Using force to compel people to accept money without real value can only work in the short...

Can You Ace This Tricky Spelling Quiz?

Even the sharpest among us occasionally turn to our computer’s spell check function when tapping out a lengthy word – but could you pass a spelling test aimed at high school students? 

A tricky new quiz shared by Playbuzz puts your basic spelling skills to the test, using 19 of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language. 

The test, designed for high school students, presents the player with 19 sentences  – each with a missing word – and tasks the player with choosing the corre...

Hot Texts Leak From Crooked FBI Agents

Over 10,000 text messages sent between two top FBI investigators – one of whom led both the Clinton email investigation and the early Trump-Russia probe, have been turned over to Congress Tuesday evening and promptly leaked to the press. The profanity-laced messages reveal a deep hatred for Trump between veteran agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page, who were having an extramarital affair while working together on the Clinton email investigation when the texts were exchanged. Strzok a...

Evidence of a CIA Role in Forging

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Infowars.com has learned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s investigators had discovered bombshell evidence that the CIA and or other government entities illegally hacked into Hawaii Department of Health records searching for birth records on Barack Obama.

According to information received by the investigators, the government breaches began on Nov. 14, 2008, just after Obama won his first presidential election, and continued until Jan. 12, 2011, three months before...

Roy Moore and His Supporters

In my latest book, Christianity and the World: Essays Philosophical, Historical, and Cultural, I attempt to dispel several misunderstandings of Christianity, misunderstandings advanced by both Christians and non-Christians alike.

Unfortunately, Cal Thomas wrote his most recent essay before he read my book.  In all truthfulness, however, unless he supplemented my work with a basic textbook on elementary logic, his screed against Roy Moore’s Christian supporters would have remained as bad as it...

The Evil of Progressivism

From the print edtion of The New American

The Progressive Era, by Murray N. Rothbard, Auburn, Alabama: Mises Institute, 2017, 539 pages, paperback.

The late Murray Rothbard was an advocate of liberty, having learned under the great professor Ludwig von Mises, the namesake of the publisher of this book. Rothbard was a prolific writer, and this work was unpublished at the time of his death in 1995. Fortunately, the Mises Institute has shared this masterpiece with the rest of us.

I first heard o...

Ten Great Conservative Novels

Conservatives often seem to resist reading fiction, preferring fact-laden books on history, philosophy, or economics.  Similarly, conservatives are more likely to recommend the latest book by Mark Levin or Ann Coulter, or a philosophical evergreen by Thomas Sowell or Milton Friedman, than a work of fiction.

Yet fiction can be a powerful tool in advancing ideas, as the left well understands.  Fiction can entertain and outrage, trigger sympathy or revulsion, provoke pity or pride, thus allowing...

Taking Care of Vinyl Records

Vinyl records are a niche market. There is a subculture of record collectors who love vinyl LPs.

I have no particular commitment to vinyl records. I shall now state what I think should be obvious. If digital imagery had been invented in 1850, no one would have invented film. Similarly, if digital recordings had been available in 1880, Edison would not have invented the phonograph record. If the transistor had been available in 1900, nobody would have invented the vacuum tube.

You may own some...