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Netanyahu Keeps Making Statements Saying Israel Didn’t Kill Charlie Kirk

One of the weirdest things happening right now is how Israel’s prime minister keeps going out of his way to make public statements saying that Israel was definitely not behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

In a two-minute video uploaded onto his Twitter account on Wednesday, Netanyahu complained that “Somebody has fabricated a monstrous big lie that Israel had something to do with Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder,” saying the allegation “is insane, it is false, it is outrageous,” and that “Ch...

Money, Credit, Growth and Depression: It’s Complicated

If “growth” is all that matters, that leads to depending on credit and asset bubbles, which are self-liquidating in ways few see because, well, it’s complicated.

Many people anticipate the demise of fiat currencies, for good reasons. This is the motivation for calls to return to the gold standard–currency backed by the tangible value of gold–or the equivalent use of bitcoin.

What few seem to ask is: why did authorities embrace fiat currencies in the first place? What prompted them to replace a g...

What Is the Final Solution to the Gaza War?

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, visiting Israel, said that a diplomatic solution to the Gaza war may not be possible’ because Hamas is a terrorist group, a barbaric group, whose stated mission is the destruction of the Jewish State. He thus confirmed the Trump administration’s full political and military support for the war that Israel is intensifying, with the false motivation of eliminating a dangerous enemy that is in fact no longer capable of fighting, in order to implement ‘the final soluti...

America: A Lost Nation

I have explained on many occasions in writing, interviews, and podcasts that an American president has little more than nominal control over the policies of his administration.  

Partly this is due to the vast size of the US government that the liberals have created, far different from what the Founders intended.  The government is far too large for anyone to keep up with no matter the AI tools in his possession.

But the main reason the President has no effective control is the incentive faced b...

Would Orwell Be Branded a Terrorist? The Government’s War on Thought Crimes

“Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices—taking advantage of our freedom of speech—who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.”—Nat H...

Ominous Overture?

After offering thoughts a few hours after Charlie Kirk was killed, I decided to wait for some facts before providing more opinions.

Nine days later, I realize if I keep doing that I may never say anything (which most readers would probably appreciate).

This incident was obviously tragic. But it strikes closer to home, and further afield, than I initially knew.

Insulting Assumption

While I was familiar with Charlie Kirk, I wasn’t his target market. As I noted last week, I’d heard a few interviews...

Imagine There Was a Violent Cult Committing Atrocities With Impunity

Imagine there was a violent cult that used scriptures from an ancient religion to convince its followers to do evil things.

Imagine the cult was given its own state.

Imagine the cult was given machine guns, tanks and war planes.

Imagine the cult obtained nuclear weapons.

Imagine the cult started committing genocide against the indigenous people who’d been living in the area where the cult’s state was established.

Imagine the cult had huge branches in the most powerful nation on earth, and the po...

Evidences Charlie Kirk’s Killing Was a Professional Hit-Job

Sometimes a conspiracy-theory is true and the Establishment’s narrative is a lie.

Apparently, the blowback from the murder of Charlie Kirk is exposing what quite possibly, if not probably, are evidences that are forming themselves into a very credible narrative — not only about that killing, but about who the actual enemies of the American people are that are behind this murder — and this highly credible narrative is one that (which is the surprise here) both conservatives and progressives can a...

The 9/11 Files: The CIA’s Secret Mission Gone Wrong

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Tiring of God

It refuses to end. Synoding, that is. That clever term is George Weigel’s and captures the whimsical inanity of the Bergoglian invention of synodality. In a recent essay of Mr. Weigel’s in that estimable journal First Things, he was rather irenic about the past aims of synodality. To me, he was straining a bit too far for my theological tastes. But bending over backward seems to have become a signature métier for Mr. Weigel. But a man of his intellectual stature should know that the problem with...