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The probable results of the fall of Assad
I haven't seen anyone yet stating what seems to me the obvious result of the annihilation of the Assad regime and the enfeebling of the Iranian system of alliances. And yet it's not without precedent. The defeat of the Zulu kingdom in South Africa in 1879 was immediately followed by the expulsion of the British Empire from Transvaal, which the ( Read more... ) -
Against abortion, again
Going through my Facebook memories for today, I found a debate about abortion which was left unfinished - or at least halted - when I did not, for whatever reason, answer a question by one of my friends. I have written a sketchy yet rather lengthy answer under that question - and won't this friend be surprised to get one after two years, when she ( Read more... ) -
A LETTER TO ALL THOSE OF MY FRIENDS WHO ARE CURRENTLY WONDERING WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WORLD
In the next few days, I intend to write a series of short essays, in the form of letters to friends, detailing my view of what your candidate has done wrong, what the man you regard as a public danger has done right, and why we are where we are today. My position is that of one who disliked both candidates equally, if for different reasons, and who ( Read more... ) -
WHY JEW-BASHERS WORK SO HARD TO STICK ISRAEL WITH THE CHARGE OF GENOCIDE
The word and the notion of "genocide" were created by academic law expert Rafael Lemkin, a Jew, under the impact of the Nazi attempted extermination of Jews. Lemkin, who was originally from Lviv in what is now Ukraine, did not mean the term to apply only to his people, and in fact used it for other similar acts of national, ethnic or religious ( Read more... ) -
Taxation, citizenship, and the State
A Reaganite asked: Why do social democrats not understand that the quality of life will be increased through growth of capital and not redistribution?
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Someone asked for a definition of "Ten Laws of Manhood". Here are mine.
1 You do your duty because it’s your duty, not because you expect gratitude or recognition. (If you do, you need to grow up.)
2 However, if gratitude and recognition are given, you accept them with equal gratitude. Nobody is too good to be thanked or rewarded.
3 You do not make any promise unless you know that you can not only perform it, but ( Read more... ) -
Oppression porn
The irresponsible panderers of the West, who accept all the propaganda lies generated from Hamas and associated areas, do so because they have a strange notion that to be on the side of the weakest is in itself right. But even if that were the case, to encourage the weakest to fight the stronger is profoundly stupid. You send these heroes of yours ( Read more... ) -
An essay I wrote three years ago: The riddle of Biden's foreign policy
THE RIDDLE OF BIDEN'S FOREIGN POLICY
The startling series of initiatives and disasters that has characterized the last couple of months of American foreign policy has left me, as I imagine many people, bewildered. Bewildered, that is, even more than angry, or depressed, or disgusted. There are certain things that one understands as the basis of ( Read more... ) -
Two wicked and unsuitable people in pursuit of the most powerful office in the world
Of Trump, we already know most of the possible evil. I said most, because the effect of the Supreme Court he appointed on American law is an evil not yet understood or properly assessed. Just consider the fact that a Texas court, following a Supreme Court sentence, has practically legalized pump-and-dump schemes. Pump and dump schemes are when an ( Read more... ) -
FRENCH FRAUD AND INTERNATIONAL COMPLICITY
Let us begin from the fact that the idiotic caricature of Leonardo's Last Supper that has been causing a certain amount of palaver across the world is an aesthetic crime, a piece of grotesque kitsch with the artistic validity of Thomas Kinklade and the grace of a roadside rubbish dump left behind by fly-tippers. Purely as a work of art, if I were a ( Read more... )