Probably just a coincidence… Just days after Germany’s ‘Alternative fur Deutschland’ (AfD) party topped the polls… Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has formally classified the party as a right-wing extremist movement, granting authorities enhanced powers to monitor the party as a potential threat to democracy, due to…
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Warning of Cashless Societies
A cashless society truly is a scary world. Picture everything that you’ve read about in history books within other totalitarian regimes, and you’ll get a taste of what is to come.) Cash is one of the last man-made means of protection that he or she has against…
After 100 Days Where Are We?
About a month or so ago on March 23 I posted on this website my memoir of my time in the Reagan administration which had just been published in The Independent Review, a readable quarterly. I expected to hear more than I did in response to my memoir, because I…
The House of Representatives Won’t Stop Approving Government Expansions
The Republican-majority United States House of Representatives demonstrated this week, through votes on several relatively modest bills, that it will just keep demanding more US government spending and control. Republican representatives often claim to support limited government and frugality, but mostly they, and their Democratic Party colleagues, keep…
The Silent Death of Western Populism
Ahnaf Ibn Qais argues that the Canadian Elections mark a turning point, away from Populist, Patriotic, & Nationalistic forces across the West, & back to their Technocratic & Managerial opponents; ‘Elites’ who are successfully outlasting said Revolutionary foes. Mark Carney is but a harbinger of things to…
Magnanimity
A virtue worth maximizing. Let’s do a little Screwtapian moral theology. If I were the enemy of the Faith and of human flourishing, I’d seek to confuse the faithful about the place of aspiration and achievement within the Christian life—aiming to disillusion the spirited young men…
Radio Liberty Let the Cat Out of the Bag Regarding the EU’s Game Plan for Ukraine
Russia can expect nothing in return from the EU if Putin concedes to allow their troops and aircraft to deploy in and patrol over Western Ukraine. Russia has long warned that any unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine of the 30-day sort that Zelensky has proposed could create an opening…
Are We in a ‘Soft’ Civil War?
Declarations of hostilities from both sides have grown more frank, and it may be we’re past the point of return to a Queensberry Rules politics. On Sunday, April 27th, Donald J. Trump, Jr. joined an event in Bulgaria, hosted by controversial crypto firm Nexo. Nexo in 2023…
Is Jim Jordan the Biggest Disappointment in Congress?
There was a time when Jim Jordan looked like the future of the America First movement. This guy had the energy, the fight, and the guts to go toe-to-toe with the establishment and say what needed to be said. He rose to power not by playing the game…
Why We Should Stop the Shots
I was asked to write my rationale for why the shots should be stopped in 3 paragraphs. There are two primary reasons the COVID vaccines should be stopped: In actual use, they provide no protection against COVID infections or deaths and They were shown in a study by…