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What the Biden Health Coverup Reveals About the Political Class

Over the weekend, the Biden family announced that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with stage IV prostate cancer. The statement said that the cancer was characterized by a Gleason score of 9 out of 10, indicating it is highly aggressive, and that it has already spread to the bone.

Well-wishes poured in from both the former president’s allies and political opponents as the Bidens reportedly reviewed treatment options. But it didn’t take long for people to note a few questionable deta...

Stumblebum’s Legacy

Bad as it was, “Joe Biden,” the figment president was merely one manifestation of a nation made mad by power-seeking demons, real-live, ill-intentioned human beings driving a runaway political machine, the party of hoaxes, hustles, and hatred. The country is just now struggling to exit a convulsion of mass mental illness. The demons are still there, though, and still hard at work trying to drag you all back into mass formation.

A central mystery is how the news media made itself the enemy of the...

The Century of Evidence Vaccines Cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

We’re always told that vaccines were a medical marvel that safely ended the dark age of infectious disease. However, when the actual records are examined, they often abjectly failed to prevent those diseases, and worse still, frequently caused outbreaks and severely injured many of the recipients.

This in part resulted from the inherent toxicity of vaccines and in part because manufacturing challenges regularly resulted in hot lots being released. Rather than address this, the vaccine industry c...

Iranian Diplomats Suspect Trump Using Talks as Instrument of Sabotage

In Tehran, bewildered diplomats told me they suspect the Trump administration is exploiting nuclear negotiations as a instrument for generating instability to weaken Iran’s economy and foment social strife.

With nuclear negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran’s Reformist government at a standstill, I held two separate, lengthy background conversations in Tehran this past week with a pair of seasoned Iranian diplomats with detailed knowledge of the talks in Muscat, Oman.

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Read a Book. Save Yourself. Save the World.

As a teacher of classical literature for over twelve years, I am excited to be offering a course on The Iliad for adults this summer. Here are ten reasons why you should put down your phone and pick up a book this summer!

1. The Iliad is the first book in Western culture and one of our oldest stories. It was written down around 850 B.C., just when the Greek alphabet was being invented. But it’s older than that. The story (or elements of the story) had been passed down via oral tradition for hund...

Is Total Surveillance a Good or a Bad Thing?

Libertarianism is a theory of justice. In fact, it is the only theory that can be rationally justified, and therefore the only valid one. This theory deals with the legitimate use of force in society, which can be summarized as the defense of property rights and the punishment of aggression against people and their property. Consequently, the issue of justice is the most important thing for libertarians. And that is why libertarians long to live in a society where justice reigns, where impunity ...

Foreign diplomats come under Israeli fire on official West Bank visit, drawing swift international condemnation

Thanks, John Smith. 

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India–Pakistan War: The Winners and the Losers

For all the alarming seriousness of two South Asian nuclear powers coming to the razor’s edge of a lethal exchange, the 2025 India–Pakistan war could not but contain elements of a Bollywood extravaganza.

Frantic dancing indeed, which risked getting out of control pretty fast. Forget dodgy, plodding UN mediation or any serious investigation of the suspicious attack out of the blue on tourists in India-held Kashmir.

Right off the bat, on 7 May, India’s Modi government dramatically launched ‘Operat...

Leftist Plantation: It’s Now ‘Treason’ For White Farmers To Leave South Africa?

Some people might be wondering why a backwater nation like South Africa has become a flash point in the global debate over politics and culture. It’s really not that hard to understand once you recognize the core conflict, which is in part about racial division but also about the fundamental evils of the political left and socialism.

South Africa represents a perfect petri dish, a window into the minds of progressive authoritarians. The country is near the end point of the natural socialist evol...

Boomers, Let’s Face It: The Math Doesn’t Work

Triage means sacrifices will have to be made and distributed to those most able to afford them to spare those least able to afford them.

There are many consequential things we can’t discuss factually because the topic upsets everyone. And since getting upset shuts down any direct discussion of difficult issues, these issues metastasize into problems that end up sinking the ship.

The Titanic has already struck the iceberg and is doomed, but since this upsets the passengers, we dance around the fa...