Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 349

K.I.S.S., Logic, and Liars

I was in the 3rd grade.  After school, Freddie Mullens sold me a “church mouse” in a matchbox for .50c, church mice being popular cartoon characters at the time.  I proudly showed mom when I got home.

“You sucker, you dumbass, you gullible kid,” she scolded as she submerged my new pet in water.

That stung!  So I wouldn’t forget that lesson, she kept laughing at me for months!

In the 4th grade I learned how to reduce fractions to the lowest common denominator, so 32/64 turned out to be a simple-a...

The World of the Future

The world faces several levels of Great Replacements, which will seriously degrade most of it, except for the East Asian countries of Japan, China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

More than 50% of Americans under eighteen are of non-European origin. Even if the USA were to end all immigration and stop the influx of refugees from its southern border, it would still become a non-European majority nation in just over a decade. This will only be a landmark, a point of no return. The inflect...

Group Interests and the ‘Good of the Whole’

The libertarian argument against civil rights laws strikes many progressives as fundamentally wrong because they view civil rights as the best way to promote liberal values including individual liberty. But any so-called values that lead inexorably to the destruction of society are not “liberal” in the true sense. In “Liberalism,” Ludwig von Mises explains the importance of pursuing what is good for society as a whole, rather than what seems good for one particular group.

This seems counterintui...

Deep State Is Nervous

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13 has reminded the world of the language of existential fear the American left has been piling on Trump, and Trump supporters, for eight years.  Trump derangement syndrome has been pushed and promoted by government media, and by elected and appointed government employees, like Biden himself.  The Establishment’s hatred and fear of Trump has been unequivocal.

Well wishes to Trump from Biden and his allies ring hollow.  Why would they be happy t...

The CIA’s Assassination Plots

The attempt to assassinate Donald Trump and his heroic response to it are uppermost in our minds. We don’t yet know the details of who was involved in the attempt on his life, though I suspect that the “lone gunman” theory will turn out to be false. But the sad event offers us a chance to reflect on something that we do know, and that may well be relevant to the attempt on the former—and we trust soon to be next—president’s life: The CIA has been involved in numerous assassination plots since it...

Archbishop Vigano’s Excommunication — Pope Francis and His Synodal ‘Church of Accompaniment’

On July 5, the Holy See Press Office issued a press release from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) concerning the case of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, whom the DDF accused of “the crime of schism.” As expected, the press release announced that the DDF had concluded its “extrajudicial penal process” and had declared the archbishop to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

The DDF, the Church’s supreme doctrinal office, had summoned Archbishop Viganò to Rome in a decree emai...

Trump, Orban, Putin: Why Are All the ‘Dictators’ Hellbent on Peace?

One of the greatest farces of these modern times is that those who scream the loudest about democracy and human rights are the very same people who violate international norms at every opportunity.

In the June issue of The New Republic, a left-leaning US political journal, a scowling Donald Trump was featured on the cover sporting a Hitler moustache above a caption that read: “American fascism, what it would look like.”

“We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster...

Supporting Israel Is Big Business in the United States

In a recent article discussing how US Treasury Department tax breaks are exploited by groups that raise money in America in support of the Israeli so-called Defense Forces (IDF), I concluded that it does not require any particular brilliance on the part of even a casual observer to realize that both politically and economically Israel and Israelis are not treated like everyone else by governments at various levels in the United States, quite the contrary in many cases. Nevertheless, some key que...

Shocks to the System

“Trump is brushing off assassin’s bullets like dirt off his shoulder, racking up a mile long rap sheet of the fakest & gayest felonies known to man, chased through civil court by crazy-eyed harridans deranged by how horny he makes them. Joe Biden has jello for supper at 4pm.” — Aimee Terese on “X”

Dear Hitler, “Joe Biden” wrote his personal note of condolence Saturday night. So sorry to hear that you were inconvenienced by loud noises in PA, where I grew up in the black church. Chris Wray tells ...

There’s an Important Lesson in All These Democrats Wishing Trump a Speedy Recovery

All the high–profile Democrats who’ve been wishing Trump a speedy recovery from his assassination attempt after years of calling him an existential threat are the same people who now treat George W Bush like a cuddly wuddly snugglepoo after years of calling him an evil dictator. The enmity between these factions is a performance, like cage fighters who hug warmly after weeks of trash talk once their match is over and admit all the drama was really just about promoting the fight and selling Pay-P...