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The US Empire’s Impending Suicide

Libertarian optimists are today joined by pessimists of all stripes in “noticing” the decline, decrepitude and desperation of Washington’s empire.  Those who believe in the state, admire the state, and are consumed by the state are acutely aware its pillars are collapsing. The ship is sinking, rivets are popping, and steel screaming.  We can all see the realization of what the near future holds in each other’s eyes.

The US as a republic, created to ensure individual liberty and oppose the overwe...

The Plot To Destroy Our Children

Last week, a conversation with a waitress disturbed me a lot. She told me that she was homeschooling her sixteen-year old son, who is autistic, because she was afraid that he would be subjected to “tranny” propaganda and encouraged to “transition” to being a woman. Even worse, he might be put in touch with “doctors” who would mutilate him by injecting him with hormones and even castrating him, all without his parents’ knowledge. You might think the waitress was exaggerating—we all know that publ...

European Mutiny at the Illiberal Order

I have been writing for some time that Europe (and the U.S.) are in a period of alternate revolution and civil war. History warns us that such conflicts tend to be extended, with peak episodes which are revolutionary (as the prevailing paradigm first cracks); yet which, in reality, are but alternate modes of the same – a ‘toggling’ between revolutionary peaks and the slow ‘slog’ of intense cultural war.

We are, I believe, in such an era.

I also have suggested that a nascent counter-revolution wa...

Pentagon and US Intel Elicit Fear Over Cuba/Russia Chess Move

CSIS has put forth a report, ‘Bending The Architecture’.  …”the global governance system is in disarray”…   They are finally recognizing that they are losing the global order under the totalitarian regime they instituted.  “The G7 should establish a formal leader-level outreach mechanism to the Global South and middle-power economies to demonstrate inclusivity and confer legitimacy on the body as a global governance institution.”   And so, based on this view, they will fail completely.

The G7 ha...

Sick of and Done With

“Biden is not well. Everyone knows this even those who support him…the difference is they don’t care and that’s the most frightening aspect of this situation.” — Edward Dowd

They’re kidding, right? That “Joe Biden” is capable of being president? Not just for another four-year term, but right here and now? This has got to be the most pitiful case of national gaslighting since 218-AD when the Romans installed 14-year-old Heliogabalus to front for their empire. Like “JB,” he reigned for four years ...

Gradualism and the Non-Aggression Principle

The core principle of the libertarian philosophy is what is known as the non-aggression principle. It holds that it is morally wrong for one person to initiate force against another person, either directly or indirectly through the use of government. Libertarians understand the critical importance of the non-aggression principle and subscribe to it … mostly.

Let’s assume that I rob you of $10,000. I take the money and give it to the poor, needy, and disadvantaged. I don’t keep any of the money f...

Don’t Bet on It

Winning at all costs is a double-edged conundrum, especially where sport is concerned. Both my father and uncle were track stars who represented Greece during the Chariots of Fire period. Fair play back then was more important than winning. I was brought up that way, although it was hard to comply at times, especially when facing opponents whose style I can charitably only describe as all-out. My racket was tennis, a supposedly gentleman’s sport and played only by amateurs. Once on the tour, com...

Wittily Conflicted: A Review of Bill Maher’s What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

Bill Maher has been a major political humorist for over thirty years. After a number of guest spots on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher ran on Comedy Central and then ABC from 1993 to 2002, and since 2003 he has hosted HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. He has also authored several books, the latest of which is What This Comedian Said Will Shock You, a collection of monologues from his present program, updated and edited.

Maher is a traditional liberal who is con...

Acting As If It Weren’t Really So

Laughing on the bus/Playing Games with the faces/She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy/I said, “Be careful his bowtie is really a camera”
– America by Paul Simon

Only people who listen to the chorus of reliable alternative media voices warning of the quickly growing threat of nuclear war have any sense of the nightmare that is approaching.  Even for them, however, and surely for most others, unreality reigns.  Reality has a tough time countering illusions.  For we are cataleptically s...

Ah, Wilderness … of Mirrors

Did the West really win the Cold War with cloaks, daggers, second story men, sabotage, stealth and derring-do? Were CIA Maxwell Smarts actually outsmarting KGB Ludwig Von Siegfrieds?  Could it even have been the other way around? Or, maybe just a sideshow as the scrum took place on other fields of play? Isn’t it un-American to believe that industry and innovation in the private sector, without the privileges, guaranteed retirement and lack of performance demands in civil service might have been ...