America
Letter to a Trump Hating Friend
I’ve taken some time to read and reread your prior emails, so that I can respond in a useful way. I do have another take on some of the issues you mentioned and will note [more…]
Democracy
Authoritarianism
Puffins March For Freedom!
During the pandemic, coronavirus legislation has been enacted giving sweeping powers to the authorities which infringe upon our human rights, despite their being passed with no proper parliamentary scrutiny. Do we still live in a [more…]
Authoritarianism
Book Review: They Thought They Were Free
Sorry, this isn’t a book review……………As such. It is, however, an attempt to highlight the similarities between life in Germany during the early 1930s & life in the UK in 2021. In 1955, Milton Mayer [more…]
America
Let’s Fight Alongside President Donald Trump! MAGA!
I have been suffering from TWS for almost two months. ( Trump Withdrawal Syndrome ). Listening to his phenomenal speech closing out the 2021 CPAC in Orlando, Florida, recharged my batteries, refilled my glass of [more…]
Democracy
Racism – The Root of All Evil
There was a time when the love of money was the root of all evil. Then socialists in schools tweaked that lesson ever so subtly and suddenly, unnoticed, money was the root of all evil. [more…]
Authoritarianism
Informed Consent – Experimental Vaccines
I have had many difficult conversations during 2020. None more so than with my family regarding vaccines. A particular conversation that I remember related to the coverage of the COVID19 China virus (SARS-COV-2) in the [more…]
Book Review
Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 2
Pericles’ Funeral Oration and the Great Plague of Athens In Part 1 of this series of articles about what is widely regarded as the greatest surviving piece of ancient historical writing, I tried to sketch [more…]
America
The Donald, how did he do?
Dan Emmerson the editor of new boys on the block Open Dialogus asked me what I thought of the Donald’s economic record. With hysterical MSM reaction to anything Trump I crunched the numbers independently & [more…]
Book Review
Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War Part 1
I have long wanted to write about Thucydides, widely regarded as the greatest historian of the ancient world and, as far as we know, only the second of the discipline after Herodotus’ account of the [more…]