“The Only Reason to Vote Republican” (revisited) The following essay is a re-run, but a very timely one. It was originally published on July 9 in the “Birch Blog” on The New American’s website. Within hours of posting this essay, I received stern, disapproving messages from my superiors at JBS, complaining that the essay undermined […]
The “Disaster Capitalist” Nomenklatura Here’s a good and sufficient illustration of the fact that the economic system of the United State (as the wise and provocative Nicholas Strakon calls our regime)is not free market capitalism.According to recently published census data, Virginia’s Loudon County is the wealthiest jurisdiction in the country, with a median household income […]
Casualties of War Collateral DamageLook at this picture, if you can stand to. Incredible as it may seem, Jade – the child in this photo, who suffers from what is described as a “mild” case of cerebral palsy – is five years old. She is not Iraqi or Lebanese, but she is just as much […]
The (Murder-)Suicide of the West Last July, while Israel was reducing much of Lebanon’s infrastructure to rubble and bombing Christian neighborhoods into blood puddling during its most recent invasion, New York Post columnist John Podhoretz – the unsightly spawn of Trotskyite loins – opined that Israel’s problem was that it is simply “Too Nice to […]
The Conspiracy Theorists Are Plotting Against Us! Jonah Goldberg has apparently broken with his self-described daily routine – eating bricks of microwaved cheddar cheese while watching women-in-prison softcore porn – to do a smattering of research into “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” Goldberg’s latest syndicated column is a variation on a familiar trope — […]
Regime-Speak: Three Examples There are myriad ways in which the people who rule us, and those who shill and flack on their behalf, express their disdain for our intelligence. Perhaps the most common expressions of contempt are the gems of transparent hypocrisy or starkly obvious dishonesty that litter the public statements and writings of the […]
Will The Regime Murder Cory Maye? Courtesy of the indefatigable (and Pulitzer-worthy) Radney Balko comes a useful glimpse into the inner life of a footsolider in the War on Drugs.Before sharing the insights of this public-minded paladin of justice, it’s necessary to sketch a brief portrait of that pillar of rectitude, and describe the role […]
Will The Regime Murder Cory Maye? Courtesy of the indefatigable (and Pulitzer-worthy) Radney Balko comes a useful glimpse into the inner life of a footsolider in the War on Drugs.Before sharing the insights of this public-minded paladin of justice, it’s necessary to sketch a brief portrait of that pillar of rectitude, and describe the role […]
