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- Reactionary academics. - GBFM’s dating profile. - In our increasingly diverse society, we can look forward to more spying and jury trials in which we know the outcome beforehand. Yea! - Athol: “If...
View ArticleMoral progress
At Cheap Chalupas, one can read the following: That said, most of the world is not regressing morally and arguably can be seen as advancing morally, at least on the fronts of general tolerance,...
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- iNotRacist (HT: asdf in the comments) - Alfredwclark wants your help compiling The Laws of the Cathedral. - Since it looks like immigration reform will pass, perhaps we should get to know Mexicans....
View ArticleThe Tea Party gets pwned
The “crown prince of the Tea Party” is about to accomplish something great . . . comprehensive immigration reform. So much for the idea that people can rise up and change anything (of course, they can...
View ArticleReal government links
Here are a few interesting stories and some brief commentary: 1) The non-partisan bureaucracy. 2) On briefings: Former U.S. Representative Jane Harman, a Democrat who served on every major House...
View ArticleWhy haven’t you moved to Detroit?
One frustrating feature of modern society is that it values talk above action. Do you verbally claim to support immigration while living as far away from immigrants as possible? If so, you’re clearly a...
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- DC continues getting whiter (also note the inclusion of Hispanics in the “black or African-American” category). - We’ll all have our 15 minutes of being racist - The unimportance of policy - Nydwracu...
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- Behold the logic of mainstream economists and despair! - LMFAO: in related news, I’m pretty sure I can think of something else the South and big cities have in common. - Moldbug: In an oligarchical...
View ArticleCathedralization of war
Nick B. Steves and Isegoria are discussing the fact that the US hasn’t won a war since 1945. Alas, I think the situation is much worse than that. If you take a broader view of war, one that encompasses...
View ArticleReview of “Detroit: An American Autopsy” by Charlie LeDuff
A newly hired autoworker will earn $14 an hour. This, adjusted for inflation, is three cents less than what Henry Fort was paying in 1914 when he announced the $5 day. And, of course, Ford isn’t...
View ArticleReview of “The Blue Book” by Robert Welch
This “book” is really a two day seminar that Welch gave to several people as part of founding the John Birch Society. You could, of course, stop reading here. After all, who cares what Welch had to...
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Pardon the long absence. I’ve been traveling a lot. Here’s a lot of links to clear the backlog. - Dark counsel. - Libertarian suicide: Were the actions of Lee Kwan Yew un-libertarian? Certainly. But...
View ArticleReview of “Space Viking” by H. Beam Piper
I have no idea how it was possible that I went so long without reading this book – just look at the title. I have very little to say about the book – you can find summaries elsewhere. Suffice it to say...
View ArticleLee Kuan Yew is laughing at you
Lee Kuan Yew told us that we couldn’t have a free press in a multi-racial/ethnic/religious society. When implemented in Singapore, this strategy was astonishingly effective. Nevertheless, the State...
View ArticleReview of “Shots Fired” by Sam Francis
This book is a collection of his columns. For perspective, the columns generally seem to run from the late ’80s to the middle of the ’00s. Some of them are a bit dated, but there’s always lessons in...
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- Thought crimes are one of those things that everyone opposes in theory and loves in practice (more here). - Anomaly UK on the Modern Structure. - Mangan: But the progressives invented a game changer,...
View ArticleReview of “What Hath God Wrought” by Daniel Walker Howe
Everything goes fast now-a-days; the winds, even begin to improve upon the speed which they have hitherto maintained; everything goes ahead but good manners and sound principles. - Philip Hone In the...
View ArticleReview of “The Problem of Democracy” by Alain de Benoist
In this brief but very dense book, de Benoist considers arguments for and against democracy and finds them inadequate in light of what he terms “organic democracy.” It may be better understood as...
View ArticleReligion and reaction
A few weeks ago, The Avenging Red Hand put up this post, in which he wonders when he can be part of the new reaction if he’s religious. This is a question that should probably be answered by Nick B....
View ArticleEdification
Scharlach doesn’t think we should discuss the Zimmerman affair because it’s not edifying. In a sense, he’s right. All of the discussion of the affair has been about the racial aspects of the story. The...
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