The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. (Thomas Jefferson) Beginning in the spring of 1848, the people in various European countries – Saxony, Sicily, France, Hungary, Sweden, Poland, Denmark, Baden, Austria, Württemberg, etc. – decided that they had had enough of the ruling elites’ […]
The Afghan army and police were “very, very effective in combat against the insurgents every single day.”Gen. Mark Milley (2013) For years, it was well known that the ocean of money that the American government threw at Afghanistan had resulted in rampant corruption of both Afghan politicians and “military” as well as American contractors (Ambassador […]
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.Thomas Sowell A large, beautiful, home can suddenly collapse in a heap of rubble, surprising its owners and neighbors, and the reason for this is that for years invisible termites ate away at crucial supports of the house, without […]
As someone who has spent (too) many years in academia both as a student, graduate student, and professor, I have always maintained that some teachers are admirable and inspiring, some are mediocre, and some are very, very dangerous – in fact, some are pure evil. Case in point of the latter is the unrepentant extreme […]
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”George Washington I had always thought of Americans having the concept of freedom embedded in their DNA. If you had told me that there would be Americans unashamedly arguing in favor of censorship, and, that […]
Although the Wuhan virus may be scary, what is also scary is how many people are sheep who do not question authority, much less stand up to it In America, we have been inundated with nasty comments and accusations about people refusing to wear masks in regards to this epidemic, and it has come from […]
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even […]
