Ethics
Kafka traps and Gish galloping
These are the ways many of the people you see in the media and politics lie and try to deceive you, not all but an awful lot of them come from the left unsurprisingly. First [more…]
Politics
Elections
Z is for … Zeitgeist, Generation Z and Le Z, the presumed candidate
The man who alerted me to the collapse of Western civilisation might soon be President of France. He did so at an event I attended on 4 November 2014: Eric Zemmour was in London to [more…]
Communism
Germany in limbo: what lies ahead for savers and investors
The September 26 election was an extremely close race, with the eyes of the world fixed upon the country as it tried to find the successor of Angela Merkel, one the most influential and longest-serving [more…]
Authoritarianism
When Suppliers Prefer Their Goods to Our Pounds
Following his interview with Vladimir Lenin on the subject of inflation in 1919, John Maynard Keynes quoted the Russian as having said “The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch its currency”, [more…]
Authoritarianism
Yellow Boards
I received a picture from a cousin in New Zealand regarding the by passing of the rotten media and standing on the side of the road with placards. This seemed such a fantastic idea I [more…]
America
The Greatest Threat to the US Is NOT What Most People Think
Here’s a challenge for readers: Stop reading right now and write down at least five threats to the US. Rank them in order of most serious at the top. Ask family members or friends to [more…]
America
What does it mean to be an American?
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails. H. Jackson Brown Jr Today’s blog was written by a good friend of mine, Lieutenant Jason Redman, U.S. Navy SEAL, retired. His [more…]
Authoritarianism
A Natural Rights and Logic Approach to Guiding Pandemic Policy
Government officials at all levels–federal, state, and local–feel impelled to adopt some sort of pandemic policy, from outright lockdowns to mandates for wearing masks under certain circumstances. It all seems quite arbitrary, because it is! [more…]
America
You want positive? Try this!
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. William Penn You know America, it is so easy to be depressed, angry, sad, frustrated, sick to your stomachs and just plain aggravated when [more…]