Just sit down for a moment and try to get you head around that notion; “People who are Lost, but don’t know they are Lost”. Consider the popular fairy tale “Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf”, originally from…
Category: How Things Work
Fascism vs Communism, First Principles, Getting the Understanding Straight
Unlike Communism, which was the love child of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Fascism had no real solid parentage, just a mishmash of European social thinking. Americans are ordinary people, created on the principle that ordinary people have the sense…
The Rittenhouse Proclamation
The Rittenhouse Proclamation I think the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and acquittal signaled a sea-change on attitudes about self-defense, including the moral and legal right to defend property. The significance of the trial was that it allowed the general public to…
Undesirables I Have Known, Stolen Valor, 1972
I arrived at my new duty assignment in Japan in February, 1972. They had just concluded a rare general court martial for that command, Attempted Murder. It had ended with an acquittal and the entire JAG staff was outraged. The fellow who beat…
Process Republicans, the Bane of the Republic
Will Chamberlain, a millennial I think, late-30s-early 40s, a “modern” not-classical conservative, “Human Events” editor and DC-area attorney, recently Tweeted “Trump is not the guy for 2024: he’ll be 78, he underperformed in 2020, we have better options”. (I’m 6…