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The Amazing Benefits of Dairy Fat

Do you avoid whole milk, or better yet, raw milk, because of its saturated fat content? If so, you may be missing out on one of the greatest health foods there is. Studies1 have repeatedly failed to find an association between full-fat dairy and cardiovascular events. Instead, they’ve found the opposite — full-fat dairy reduces your risk of cardiovascular events and deaths thereof.

Dairy products are also associated with lower risks of Type 2 diabetes,2 liver disease and more. One of the reason...

Russia – China Are on a Roll

While the dogs of war bark, lie and steal, the Russia-China caravan strolls on.

2023 may be defined for posterity as The Year of the Russia-China Strategic Partnership. This wonder of wonders could easily sway under a groove by – who else – Stevie Wonder: “Here I am baby/ signed, sealed, delivered, I’m yours.”

In the first 11 months of 2023, trade between Russia and China exceeded $200 billion; they did not expect to achieve that until 2024.

Now surely that’s One Partnership Under a Groove. Once...

Break the Cycle: In 2024, Say No to the Government’s Cruelty, Brutality, and Abuse

“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”—Edmund Burke

Folks, it’s time to break the cycle of abuses—cruel, brutal, immoral, unconstitutional and unacceptable—that have been heaped upon us by the government for way too long.

Here’s just a small sampling of what we suffered through in 2023.

The government failed to protect our lives, liberty and happiness. The predators of the police state wreaked havoc on our freedoms, our communities, and our lives. The government didn’t listen to ...

How Capitalism Made Christmas a Holiday for Children

During the 1980s, millions of American children pored over the Toys ‘R’ Us catalog, daydreaming about what toys we hoped to receive in a few weeks on Christmas morning. After all, by the mid twentieth century, Christmas—for countless middle-class households with children— had become more or less synonymous with an enormous number of gifts for children in the form of toys and games. Barbie playsets and a myriad of action figures were routinely advertised during Saturday morning cartoons and in Su...

Dr. McCullough: ‘Hyper-Vaccination’ of Children Likely Behind Rise in Autism, Transgenderism

Dr. Peter McCullough, an eminent cardiologist and prominent critic of the COVID medical establishment, provided a comprehensive well-documented presentation to colleagues regarding crimes of the “biopharmaceutical complex,” the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the causes of the hundreds of thousands of deaths from the COVID “vaccine,” and how studies now show a connection between the “hyper-vaccination” of children, high rates of autism, and individuals going forward for transgender surgery.

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Poison Pen

One of the great pleasures of retirement is that one can lie abed in the morning and read Agatha Christie without any feeling of guilt—guilt about being late for work, for example. It doesn’t matter in the least if one gets up at eleven: One hasn’t anything else important, or pseudo-important, to do. (Most importance is of the pseudo kind.)

Therefore, I was content one morning last week to lie in bed reading They Do It With Mirrors (my wife having brought me coffee). But human, or at any rate my...

Rebels for Christ

An unjust law is no law at all, and the more that injustice becomes the law of the land, the more likely that chaos comes, too.  Why?  Because injustice begets more injustice.  Most humans have an antenna that can distinguish right from wrong, but most humans also ignore this antenna to their detriment.  It is far easier to accept the world as it is — even when it is drenched in depravity — than to rebel against majority opinion.  It is far safer to stay silent in the sight of outrageous sin tha...

A Very Boring Story About What Could Have Been in Under 200 Words

During our December 13, 2023, Digital Autonomy & the Arts podcast with Liam Sturgess hosted by Gabriel of Libre Solutions Network, Tonika sprung a delightful surprise on me by playing the third video she has created to illustrate one of my pieces, this time for A Very Boring Story About What Could Have Been in Under 200 Words.

Purely coincidentally, I originally published that story on Christmas Eve 2021. You’ll find it after my Early-Blooming Parentheses note.

Early-Blooming Parentheses + A Ver...

5 Things You Can Do This Christmas To Make the Marxists Miserable

Why is Christmas the most wonderful time of the year? Is it all the mistletoeing and hearts that are glowing? Yeah, that all rocks, but my values — and kicks — revolving around Christmas joy have taken a holly jolly turn, and I’d like to get you on board.

If you think eggnog and caroling are fun, wait until you get your bald-headed niecephew so mad zhe poops zher Che Guevara manties.

FACT-O-RAMA!  The commies hate when we mock them, so mock I shall until we lock the doors of Ark 2.0 and listen to...

A Reporter’s Lawyer

With the world in such disarray, there is a lot of reason now, during the holiday season, to think of family and good friends, here and gone. This is a remembrance I wrote for the New Yorker in 2011 when someone important to me and my family passed, way too young.

My lawyer died last week. His name was Michael Nussbaum, of Washington, D.C. He was seventy-six years old and Stage 4 lung cancer got him after a brave two-year struggle. He was survived by his wife, Gloria Weissberg, and her two daugh...