Teamsters refusing to transport GM vehicles in solidarity with UAW “Why is everything made in China?” In the 1950s-1980s, unions achieved total dominance over the American auto industry, which was dead and declining until Lee Iaccoca figured out that if he bought up shares of Mitsubishi and Fiat, he could have foreign workers do the […]
Of all the horrors modernity brought, tourism may be the worst. For thousands of years traveling was something one underwent for serious reasons, like trade, pilgrimage, and war, with the short exception during the Roman Empire when upper middle class Romans traveled across the empire to gaze upon the pyramids of Egypt and carve their […]
Life presents a challenge: one either accepts it — looking at the whole of the pattern order before us and finding meaning (this requires descending below personality into the inner self, a murky area found in dreams and imagination) — or one tries to find something tangible to fill the void. Tangible things come in […]
Couples in Virginia will no longer have to disclose race to obtain a marriage license We pursue the whole sign of purity, equality. Before it we bow, and all must conform. Even when not relevant to anything other than awareness of race, the symbol must conquer all reality. That way, everything is under our control, […]
John 15:18-26 (ESV) 18 If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. […]
How being a white person became a crime Whereas black studies celebrates black writers and black history, and gay studies brings out gay figures from history and pushes them to the fore, “whiteness studies” is “committed to disrupting racism by problematizing whiteness,” according to Syracuse University professor Barbara Applebaum, who wrote Oxford’s definition. This is […]
Ministers under fire after announcing ‘mega jail’ to be built in Yorkshire despite thousands of objections The Left tells us that what is needed are not more jails, but fewer prisoners; that translates to “relax standards” as the Left always does. In reality, diversity plus social breakdown has produced more people committing criminal acts. If […]
We rewrite history and never are quite sure why. Most of it seems designed to make us feel as if our present time is the best of all possible options, a “fiction absolute” that we rationalize by only mentioning the bad about other eras. Some of it certainly comes from political animus. We cannot praise […]
Reuters asks judge to release secret Propecia documents The modern time comes to a close in a flurry of debunked lies: The investigation found that hundreds of thousands of Americans have been killed or seriously injured over the past couple of decades by allegedly defective products — drugs, cars, medical devices and other products — […]
So let’s say you wake up one morning believing Proposition X. You don’t just factually accept it. As Karl Marx once put it: the idea “tastes good.” This will typically drive anyone who buys into Proposition X to defend it vociferously. It’s now the mental equivalent of a free cheeseburger. Now let’s say further that […]
Trump’s immigration crackdown starts to gain traction Trump denied Bahamian emergency immigration, got support from the Supreme Court on deportation policy and using military funds to build the wall, got Mexico on-board, deployed troops to the border, and is constructing 450 miles of wall. The Left was able to stage resistance, as usual, but ultimately […]
Immanuel Kant kicked off the revolution in European philosophy that took it beyond universalism, even as he clung to it in part. With universalism, we could assume per The Enlightenment™ that a universal faculty of reason and perception in all people allowed us to posit an objective reality. Without universalism, we have an objective world, […]
450 miles of border wall by next year? In Arizona, it starts Looks like we are getting the national symbol for “diversity did not work, we are full, go back home.” World losing area of forest the size of the UK each year, report finds We have more trees but less forest. A forest is […]
Very few people understand conservatism, least of all conservatives. For most on the Right, their beliefs amount to tacit folkways, conventional wisdom, tradition, and a gut feeling that life should be kept as simple as possible and based on what has worked well in the past. We can outline conservatism with the simple formula of […]
Bin Ladin won. He won at least a major battle, if not the whole war. No, The Taliban didn’t overrun New York. Ocasio Cortez would have a much better set of manners if he’d put her and all like her, back in their cave. But Bin Ladin did change Amerika in ways that greatly empowered […]
18 years later, America vows to ‘never forget’ 9/11 Is that so? We clearly never learned anything from it. The point of 9/11 was that political unity alone cannot make a nation. We tried; we failed. In fact, even leading up to 9/11, the cracks were evident. Diversity wandering around us, including terrorists who wanted […]
What has gone wrong with the human experiment? A species that should be far above its roots now seems to be descending into them. On the surface, of course, we can point to equality as the means of our demise. This symbol makes people obsessed and they lose all ability to differentiate sense from nonsense, […]
Boris Johnson tells parliament: You can tie my hands, but I will not delay Brexit We have now learned how to defeat the system which seemed unbeatable. You have to find your objective and charge toward it, realizing that the system is so encrusted in laws and procedure that they will come up with a […]
War raging across the sciences concerns a simple question: are our traits mostly nature, or genetic in origin as Darwin argued, or is nurture — including indoctrination and socioeconomic status — a bigger factor? Nature continues winning, as one might expect from having observed animal species. Recent research points to genetic differences in intelligence between […]
Tariffs are no longer China’s biggest problem in the trade war The decoupling push is quite different than any U.S. efforts to get China to open up more of its economy to American companies. Instead, it focuses on reducing America’s extremely heavy reliance on China for so much of its manufacturing needs. We have been […]
When you get in an automobile accident, time suspends for the duration of events. You remember having been in a state of completely normal activity, then something went wrong, and after that, your brain was concerned with survival. In the days and months after the event, you replay it through your head more an algebra […]
NOAA assailed for defending Trump’s Hurricane Dorian claim Apparently, our media is so stupid that it has no idea when it is being played. They managed to convince a bunch of people to come out and talk about how “politics is manipulating science” because the NOAA affirmed Trump’s statement, which was essentially that the hurricane […]
When the “yellow vests” protests gained momentum, it excited many people because it looked like an idealized a populist revolution where an angry crowd chases out an corrupt government. Instead it should have been a lesson on why an angry crowd will never ever inflict meaningful change. Those on the Right can learn a great […]
When Western Civilization encountered Christianity, it did to it the same thing it did to gunpowder and pyjama pants, namely making it more powerful through study and the injection of the “Western spirit” into its use. In other words, they saw a better method than the paganism that was indigenous to the many tribes of […]
On the front page of the latest catalog mailed, along with a bunch of other seemingly pointless spam that somehow generates money, they advertise a “pumpkin spice” pipe tobacco. This makes me want to set the world on fire, but not for the reasons most would expect. Some would point out that pumpkin spice is […]
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Teamsters refusing to transport GM vehicles in solidarity with UAW “Why is everything made in China?” In the 1950s-1980s, unions achieved total dominance over the American auto industry, which was dead and declining until Lee Iaccoca figured out that if he bought up shares of Mitsubishi and Fiat, he could have foreign workers do the […]
Of all the horrors modernity brought, tourism may be the worst. For thousands of years traveling was something one underwent for serious reasons, like trade, pilgrimage, and war, with the short exception during the Roman Empire when upper middle class Romans traveled across the empire to gaze upon the pyramids of Egypt and carve their […]
Couples in Virginia will no longer have to disclose race to obtain a marriage license We pursue the whole sign of purity, equality. Before it we bow, and all must conform. Even when not relevant to anything other than awareness of race, the symbol must conquer all reality. That way, everything is under our control, […]
How being a white person became a crime Whereas black studies celebrates black writers and black history, and gay studies brings out gay figures from history and pushes them to the fore, “whiteness studies” is “committed to disrupting racism by problematizing whiteness,” according to Syracuse University professor Barbara Applebaum, who wrote Oxford’s definition. This is […]
Ministers under fire after announcing ‘mega jail’ to be built in Yorkshire despite thousands of objections The Left tells us that what is needed are not more jails, but fewer prisoners; that translates to “relax standards” as the Left always does. In reality, diversity plus social breakdown has produced more people committing criminal acts. If […]
Reuters asks judge to release secret Propecia documents The modern time comes to a close in a flurry of debunked lies: The investigation found that hundreds of thousands of Americans have been killed or seriously injured over the past couple of decades by allegedly defective products — drugs, cars, medical devices and other products — […]
Trump’s immigration crackdown starts to gain traction Trump denied Bahamian emergency immigration, got support from the Supreme Court on deportation policy and using military funds to build the wall, got Mexico on-board, deployed troops to the border, and is constructing 450 miles of wall. The Left was able to stage resistance, as usual, but ultimately […]
450 miles of border wall by next year? In Arizona, it starts Looks like we are getting the national symbol for “diversity did not work, we are full, go back home.” World losing area of forest the size of the UK each year, report finds We have more trees but less forest. A forest is […]
What has gone wrong with the human experiment? A species that should be far above its roots now seems to be descending into them. On the surface, of course, we can point to equality as the means of our demise. This symbol makes people obsessed and they lose all ability to differentiate sense from nonsense, […]
