Category: Western Civilization
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Not For Turning
It was a generation ago – when I was in high school – that Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister. The media and popular culture were less tribalized then than they are today – but the drumbeat from the cultural authorities was this is a very bad thing. And it foreshadowed the great American resurgence that…
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When He’s Right…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In which I find myself nodding as Russian President Vladimir Putin describes the decline of Western Civilization, and wondering why America can’t find leaders who talk like that. Joe Doakes In Paul Johnson’s classic history of the 20th century, Modern Times, the pivotal chapter, about the moral collapse underway…
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Decline
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Richard Fernandez writes an insightful column about The Garden Administration’s stunning reversal of fortune. From the economy to the border to foreign affairs to the culture war, we’re losing everything, everywhere, and all at once. On the bright side, they may have killed the last, best hope for freedom…
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Last Day
Liberals insist their beliefs are the only acceptable beliefs and anybody who thinks differently is insane, their children should be taken away and sent to Re-education Camps, and the parents should be ‘cleansed’ from America. Assume Liberals are not lying this time and actually go through with it. If you knew that today was your…
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Of Consequence
I’ll just commend to you this thread by John Hayward – perhaps the thing most worth reading on the misbegotten morass that is Twitter in a long, long time – without further comment: Other than urging you to drill in and read the whole thing.
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Some Animals Experience More Convenience Than Others
They’re building bridges over their roads for the reindeer to cross safely. In fact, let’s go one step farther. Let’s dig tunnels under the roads for raccoons to cross safely. And paint different colored stripes for bicycles to cross safely. And lower speed limits so jaywalkers can cross safely. You know what? Why are we messing…
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Let’s Be Clear, Here
“Anti”-Fa is an “idea”. So are ISIS, Al Quaeda and every other toxic ideology in the history of the world. Here’s the new documentary, “Antifa – Rise of the Black Flag”. It traces “Anti”-Fa’s roots back to the Communist Party of Weimar Germany… …and straight through to the present day, right here and now. Watch…
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A Democracy, If We Can Keep It
The weekend before last, I spent the better part of an hour on the NARN with Walter Hudson, a longtime friend of the show (and someone who needs to be back on the air, one way or another). It’s one of the the better hours I’ve had on the air recently (and I’ve been proud…
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Whatever You Do…
…don’t you dare say the left is waging a war… …against Western Civlization itself.
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Battle Lines
Been hearing yammering about the nation divided against itself, beingtorn apart by culture war, end of life as we know it, civil war, yada yada. Okay, sure, it happened once before. But there was a fairly cleargeographical division – North against South. What the division now? Suburb against Core? City against Country? In a war with…
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Experience
The Czech Republic is debating implementing a constitutional guarantee in line with our second amendment: A few years ago, the amendment passed through the lower house of the Czech parliament but was stopped in the upper house. The proposed language read as so: “The right to defend one’s own life or the life of another person with…
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The New Kulaks
Remember when “racism” meant “hating, disparaging or discriminating against someone because of their ethnicity?” And the good guys and gals sought “equality” – the whole “judging by the contents of peoples’ hearts rather than the color of their skin” thing. Those were quaint days indeed. Today? Big Left isn’t seeking “equality”. The goal is “anti-Racism”.…
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Let’s Set The Record Straight, Here
Since the topic of political “extremism” is on everyone’s mind, I may as well get this out there. I’m an extremist. I’m an extremist for Western Civilization. I’m an extremist for the legacy of the value of the individual that comes from the Judeo-Christian tradition. I am a zealot for that civilization’s rejection of group…
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Our Orwellian Overlords
Individualism is groupthink. Hard work is indolence. Objectivity is emotion. Respect is hate. Delayed gratification is fleeting and temporal. Apparently Orwell is “the New Normal”, at least among progs: Not just Orwellian – socially illiterate. These are traits of Western Civilization – which sprouted in the West, which happens to have been almost entirely white…
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Lack Of Consent
A just government governs by the consent of the governed. Which, in a pluralistic society (shaddap about Denmark), it’s not a high school civics class platitude. It’s not easy. Few large, pluralistic societies pull it off well. And we’re getting worse at it. I’m going to pullquote the conclusion from this Kevin Williamson piece on…
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Triple Down
I asked American progressivism “American “progressivism”, you couldn’t possibly out-do your myopia from 2016, could you?” And American progressivism – in this case Vox.com – said “hold my kombuchba“: The idea that identity politics is at odds with liberalism has become conventional wisdom in parts of the American political and intellectualelite. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has condemned contemporary identity…
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Yet Again
You could almost sense it, coming everywhere from Democrats on social media to progs in the dead tree media; this was going to be the UK election that set so much right in the UK, undoing Brexit and re-setting the left’s agenda… …and telegraphing the public mood about Trump and the rise of other populists…
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Men In England Now A-Bed…
The tale of the Brits who, despite their government’s best efforts to neuter them, dealt with the terrorist attack in London over the weekend: Of course, the Brits are lucky it’s a story that’s gone ’round the world; if it were regular street crime, they’d be prosecuted more seriously than the thug. It’s something to…
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An Experiment
White Supremacist is the epithet du jour, which Liberals paste everywhere as gleefully and randomly as my grand-daughter with a new sticker book. But what does it mean, White Supremacist? Traditionally, it was the belief that White people were superior to other races, that something in their genetic make up or possibly in their culture,…
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Touched By The Concern
Big Leftymedia is concerned that former ISIS fighters who defected from France to the Caliphate aren’t getting due process: [Human Rights Watch spokesman Belkis] WILLE: The trials of ISIS suspects in Iraq are fundamentally unfair. We say this based on sitting through many of these trials over the last two years. And what we see…
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Priorities
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Trump plans to withdraw the 2,000 US military members from Syria. Neo-Cons are upset. Defense Secretary Mattis is resigning. The establishment consensus is Trump is making a horrible mistake. Is he?George Washington warned against entangling alliances. That’s pretty good historical precedent for Trump to bring our troops home. Yes,…
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Un Proposicion Modesto
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The government controls the lives of everyone living under its jurisdiction, so everyone in the community should have a voice in electing the government, right? Even non-citizens. Hey, what’s the problem? Everyone residing in the community is affected by local government, we all have “skin in the game.” Why…
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Being Necessary To The Security Of A Free State
While Trump plies his wiles trying to get the feckless Germans and Dutch to pay their share of defending their stagnating continent, at least part of free Europe doesn’t need reminding of the consequences of not standing up for their own freedom. The Poles need no reminding about keeping their defenses strong. And to their…
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Cultural Genocide!
Donald Truimp proposes to separate children of legal immigrants from their parents for 25 hours a week for instruction in American values – including traditions like Christmas, Easter, and of course fluency in English. Spokespeople for the proposal say that if immigrants won’t willingly assimilate to American life, they – or at least their next generation…
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Downfall
Europe – blessed by US deterrence with the longest period of peace in its history – loves to hector America about how much better Europe does, well, everything. Laugh it up, Eurotrash: There is a Roman Empire-like sameness throughout Europe in fashion, popular culture, and government protocol — a welcome change from the deadly fault lines…