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America's elites are not fit for purpose - Rod Dreher, The European Conservative , 11 December 2023 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/americas-elites-are-not-fit-for-purpose/ ...It is a wonder to consider how the United States, in only sixty years, overcame American apartheid and...

This video may soon be ILLEGAL - Candice Malcolm, True North , 30 November 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zofJ9-wKANg The Trudeau government wants to ban critical thinking and criminalize uncomfortable questions about Canada’s residential school program. According to a recent Canadian Press a...

A report from Statistics Canada finds that 86% of the murders of indigenous women and girls are committed by the indigenous. However, thanks to racism in Canada, indigenous murderers get shorter sentences for killing their own. Once again, Woke SJW creates MORE injustice. Indigenous female murder st...

Look back in anger - Helen Andrews, Claremont Review of Books , Winter 2022/23 https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/look-back-in-anger/ The lights are going off in South Africa. Review of: The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning by Eve Fairbanks (Simon & Schuster, ...

Ireland’s tragic demise - John Mac Ghlionn, The American Mind , 4 December 2023 https://americanmind.org/salvo/irelands-tragic-demise/ Ireland’s leaders are inviting disaster. The Ireland of today is very different to the Ireland of yesteryears. Irish eyes are not smiling, and for good reason. Toda...

Every once in a while I take a look at the Clive Best's blog: https://clivebest.com/blog/ He posts a lot of interesting stuff relating to climate history, climate change, and energy. For example, just about my favourite all-in-one graph of Earth's climate history over the 800,000 years comes from hi...

After two years the protest installation at Robson Square in Vancouver was hurriedly dismantled: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/residential-school-memorial-removed-overnight The shoes that were part of a residential school memorial were removed from the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery overnight....

Vince Everett Ellison speaks on Tucker Carlson’s show:

(2:36) “The kind of case that ends careers”
(3:30) Vince Everett Ellison
(9:25) Democrats & Oppression
(11:28) “Burn, Loot, and Murder”

Canada is not only an authoritarian state; it is a racist state: Affirmative Action in Jail Sentencing - Karl Stack, 10 February 2023 https://karlstack.substack.com/p/affirmative-action-in-jail-sentencing the court system in Canada is broken, and it's only going to get worse On December 31, 2020, a ...

Barometer of hate - Heather Mac Donald, City Journal , Winter 2023 https://www.city-journal.org/fictions-of-emancipation-exhibit-rejects-beauty-and-cultivates-racial-resentment A major Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit rejects beauty and cultivates racial resentment. ... Fictions of Emancipation i...

Breaking Russia? More like breaking ourselves - Brandon Weichert, Asia Times , 11 February 2023 https://asiatimes.com/2023/02/breaking-russia-more-like-breaking-ourselves/ ...For America to get out of its current predicament, it must end its unflinching commitment to Ukraine and instead focus on sh...

The corruption has brought us to war - Jeffrey Sachs, 10 February 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvXIfRhJWuM This very short (5 min. long) video is focused on the war in Ukraine, but Prof. Sachs stresses the important fact that our media has failed us on all counts. As he says, journalists ar...

Jagmeet Singh is an empty suit, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma - Jordan Peterson, Rex Murphy, National Post , 10 February 2023 https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jagmeet-singh-is-an-empty-suit-wrapped-in-a-mystery-inside-an-enigma The NDP leader is sacrificing what his party stands for in ord...

Also from Mike Whitney: Why do Americans hate Putin? - Mike Whitney, The Unz Review , 22 November 2022 https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/why-do-americans-hate-putin/ Why do Americans hate Putin? Tucker Carlson thinks he knows. Here’s what he said: “… Democrats in Washington have told you it’s your patrio...

From exactly one year ago today: The crisis in Ukraine is not about Ukraine. It's about Germany - Mike Whitney, The Unz Review , 11 February 2022 https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-not-about-ukraine-its-about-germany/ “The primordial interest of the United States, over which for c...

I was at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival last September https://www.bayreuthbaroque.de/ Among other things we saw Alessandro nell’Indie by Leonardo Vinci, his last opera, composed just before he was murdered in 1730. Vinci was one of about eighty composers, including many that era’s most famous ones, ...

The power-mad utopians - Michael Lind, Tablet , 30 January 2023 https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/power-mad-progressive-utopianism-must-be-stopped ... Three social engineering projects define progressivism in the 2020s: the Green Project, the Quota Project, and the Androgyny Project....

Oh what a tangled weave we weld - David Cole, Taki's Magazine , 24 January 2023 https://www.takimag.com/article/oh-what-a-tangled-weave-we-weld/ Autumn 1986 I attended an exhibit at the California Institute of the Arts. I wasn’t there for the “art”; CalArts exhibits were (and are) for the pretentio...

We get the sculpture we deserve - Mary Harrington, UnHerd , 19 January 2023 https://unherd.com/2023/01/we-get-the-sculpture-we-deserve/ Martin Luther King has been decapitated for the 'swarm' ... Swarmism is power without a head, which is to say without accountability. It operates instead via “over...

Some interesting views from David P. Goldman, much of it about Ukraine: https://twitter.com/davidpgoldman https://twitter.com/davidpgoldman/status/1617834134365442048 Our old friend BerzerkSavant responds: Some times, all you have left is “I told you so”. To which Goldman replies: Being a paid-in me...

Canada's National Gallery has become a woke national disgrace - Andrew Cohen, National Post , 26 December 2022 https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadas-national-gallery-has-become-a-woke-national-disgrace Days after Sasha Suda abruptly resigned as director of the National Gallery of Canada last Jul...

As Douglas Murray explains, why wait for protestors to trash museums? Curators are doing it themselves: The new vandals: how museums turned on their own collections - Douglas Murray, The Spectator , 3 December 2022 https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-new-vandals-how-museums-turned-on-their-own-c...

Sick with guilt - The New Criterion, March 2022 https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/3/sick-with-guilt On the loss of purpose in cultural institutions. ... As the commentator Rod Dreher noted in a stinging essay called “Hateful Whitey Binds Her Feet” at The American Conservative , Princeton’s balle...

When America makes Orwell look like an amateur - Peter Van Buren, The Spectator, 19 November 2022 https://spectatorworld.com/topic/when-america-makes-orwell-look-like-an-amateur/ ... Orwell envisioned the need for a massive Ministry of Truth to enact societal control when in fact all it took was so...