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Why Islam Will Likely Win Its Forever War Against the West

Let’s examine Islam and its impact on the West.

Here’s the bottom line: the conflict between Islam and the West amounts to a Forever War, a concept from Joe Haldeman’s sci-fi novel of the same name. And the Mohammedan’s are likely to win its next stage.

The Forever War got underway in the early 7th century and has ebbed and flowed since then. It’s now heating up again, as evidenced by the fact that most recent wars and terrorist activities center around places like Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Lebanon, ...

The American Tax Racket

This country fought a war for independence over taxation without representation. The Founders really, really didn’t like taxes. They dressed up as Indians at the Boston Tea Party. Over a pretty small tax on tea. They became incensed over a similarly modest tax on stamps. Our forebears called these things the Intolerable Acts.

Since the early 1770s, our increasingly tyrannical government has implemented a lot of Intolerable Acts. Many people don’t realize that, until 1913, there was no income tax...

Why the JFK Assassination Still Matters

Someone might reasonably ask, “What difference does the JFK assassination make to those of us living today? The assassination took place more than 60 years ago. Everyone involved in it is now dead. Why not just forget it and move on?’

Those are reasonable questions, especially when they come from young people. Why should they care about who killed Kennedy?

The reason lies in the governmental structure under all of us have been born and raised — a national-security state form of governmental stru...

So Where Were You?

Where were you
when the bombs fell?
A nuclear war.  It didn’t end well.
The US pushed Russia over the edge.
Putin honored his “sacred pledge”.
The globalists who run America
were keen on having a nuclear event.
The Demo-Republican Uniparty
gave their wholehearted assent.
The Senile Usurper ate the nuclear biscuit
and crowed “I am the Pres-i-dent.”

Where were you when the bombs fell?
A holocaust courtesy Isra-hell.
They flattened Gaza…Palestinians no more
so the Muslim nations evened the score.
T...

Seeing Eye Dog Democracy

Ah, ye of little faith. I’m talking about the faithful, of course. Aren’t they the dangerous misfits who keep defying a clergy of experts into whose hands all fate must be placed? Why won’t the miscreants accept that junior is doomed without the options of hormonal therapy, a little black dress and pronouns? Synods of the new religion pass over at 30,000 feet downing Sauterne with their foie gras. More earthly members of the congregation must follow another set of commandments. They include rest...

Coming Out of a Dark Wood

The first lines of Dante’s Divine Comedy set the scene and mood for perhaps the greatest poetry ever written.

Midway this way of life we’re bound upon,
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
Where the right road was wholly lost and gone.*

My daughter was released from the hospital 10 weeks after we took her to the emergency room. She was not “midway” through life, but only a teenager when she found herself in the dark wood of anxiety that led to the hell of anorexia.

For several weeks before she ...

Gold Rises, Even with Bad News

This week Peter recaps another stellar week for precious metal. He also discusses Friday’s jobs report, commodity prices, and Bitcoin.

Peter starts by putting this week’s surge into context:

“There’s an old Wall Street saying: ‘nobody rings a bell,’ meaning that nobody warns you when you’re at a major top or a major bottom. The problem is there are bells. It’s just that people don’t recognize them. They don’t hear them. They don’t know what to listen for. Well, there was a big bell rung today in...

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

You know the stereotype of the NPR listener: an EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite. It doesn’t precisely describe me, but it’s not far off. I’m Sarah Lawrence–educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley.

I fit the NPR mold. I’ll cop to that.

So when I got a job here 25 years ago, I never looked back. As a senior editor on the business desk where news is always break...

Plant-Based Meat Scam

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Bang-and-Whimper

“Whoever doesn’t miss the Soviet Union doesn’t have a heart. Whoever wants it back doesn’t have a brain.” — VV Putin

Have you checked if your hair is on fire today? Here comes an eclipse of the sun. Our moon will cast a totality of its shadow in a path about 100 miles wide arcing from Del Rio Texas to Bangor Maine, with lesser effects outward on each side of the path so that night will seem to fall at mid-day over most of America east of the Big Muddy. This event typically freaks out primitive p...