Monthly Archives: March 2019

Racist Thing #107

March 28, 2019 – 7:13 pm

Food. This one’s a twofer: “climate change” and racism.

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Andrew McCarthy On The Aftermath, Cont’d.

March 28, 2019 – 12:15 am

In yesterday’s post I quibbled with Andrew McCarthy’s call, in an article he’d published at Fox News, for full disclosure of the Mueller report and everything else associated with the Russiagate witch-hunt. Today I listened to an interview he gave with John Batchelor on Tuesday, and I see that I had missed his point. As […]

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Living Fossil

March 26, 2019 – 1:27 pm

In the previous post, I linked to a podcast by Andrew McCarthy. Do you recall the origin of the word “podcast”? It is a moment of tech history preserved in amber: a reference to the Apple iPod, a now-obsolete music player introduced in 2001. There are still many of them out there, but they will […]

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Andrew McCarthy On The Aftermath

March 26, 2019 – 12:28 am

Podcast here. Article here. One quibble: the Democrats and the media are bawling for the public release of the full text of the report, and Mr. McCarthy seems to think that would be OK — as long as we get everything else as well: You want disclosure? Me too. But let’s see all of it. […]

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The Mountain Labored, And Brought Forth A Mouse

March 25, 2019 – 12:26 am

Well! The Mueller report’s in, and has confirmed that this whole Russia business was nothing but a frame-up all along. Thanks so very much, news media and Democrat saboteurs (but I repeat myself) for hijacking the nation’s public affairs for two long years of round-the-clock bile, slander, and lies. This will end nothing, of course: […]

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And The Foundations Of The Mountains Shook

March 20, 2019 – 3:35 pm

Nine years ago, in a post about the Eyjafjallajokul volcano in Iceland, I wrote the following thing: Meanwhile, if you’re starting up an End Of Days seismic-catastrophe pool at the office, I think the smart money is on the Cascadia Subduction Zone up in the Pacific Northwest. Admittedly, that was nine years ago, and nothing’s […]

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Peter Brimelow On Christchurch

March 19, 2019 – 11:46 pm

Having read Rachel Fulton Brown’s commentary on the New Zealand massacre, you should now go and read Peter Brimelow’s. His point is a simple one: when nations are deliberately destroyed, and all peaceful means of preventing the calamity are suppressed, what remains will be evil reactions by violent men.

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Rachel Fulton Brown On Christchurch

March 19, 2019 – 11:34 pm

I’ve just read an item at American Greatness about the Christchurch massacre. The article is by Rachel Fulton Brown, a professor of medieval history who keeps an excellent blog called Fencing Bear At Prayer. I am an admirer of Ms Brown’s — there are many reasons for me to be — and her essay rightly […]

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A Dispatch From Laputa

March 18, 2019 – 8:07 pm

With a hat-tip to Nick Land, here is a densely mathematical paper that purports to model the world economy in terms of the degree of restriction of migration policy. I have looked it over, but I cannot say that I have followed its argument in detail. (If any of my readers would like to do […]

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Renewable Energy: Fraud And Folly

March 17, 2019 – 11:22 pm

A couple of months ago I posted an item about Germany’s ostentatious effort to rely on solar and wind power: a flamboyant exercise in virtue-signalling that has become a spectacular, and costly, failure. (I should add that I also consider those giant windmills we now see everywhere — someone has aptly called them “eco-crucifixes” — […]

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Slaughter In New Zealand

March 15, 2019 – 6:40 pm

The world is aghast today at the news of a massacre in a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. The shooter was a white Australian; the victims were Muslims. As I write the death-toll stands at forty-nine. This is a horror, a sickening atrocity. It is important to try to understand what happened here, especially as […]

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Weaponizing The SPLC

March 14, 2019 – 10:01 pm

The immensely profitable and influential hate-propaganda racket known as the Southern Policy Law Center is in the news today for firing its 82-year-old founder, Morris Dees, for unspecified “personnel violations”. I’m glad to hear it, of course: the SPLC is a “social-justice” flim-flam in the business of organized slander against everyone to its right, and […]

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Racist Thing #106

March 13, 2019 – 5:31 pm

Air.

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Join Or Die

March 12, 2019 – 11:46 pm

Michael Anton comments on the seige of Tucker Carlson, here. The gist is in the final paragraph: The ruling Left cannot defeat Carlson and so must silence him. As it will attempt to silence anyone who carries his message or anything like it. Every “conservative’ who joins the ritual denunciation of Carlson wishing to be […]

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Man v. Mob

March 12, 2019 – 12:10 am

So good to see someone refusing to grovel for once. Give ’em hell, Tucker.

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Be Very Afraid

March 10, 2019 – 12:51 pm

It’s time to panic, because the disastrous effects of climate change have now caused the cherry trees in Washington to blossom exactly when they usually do.

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This Thing All Things Devours

March 9, 2019 – 10:11 pm

In Christianity and Culture (1949), T.S. Eliot wrote this about liberalism: “…it is something that tends to release energy rather than accumulate it, to relax, rather than to fortify. It is a movement not so much defined by its end, as by its starting point; away from, rather than towards, something definite. Our point of […]

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Black Ops – A Report From The Front

March 7, 2019 – 10:37 pm

Here’s a long and meaty interview with the Twitter commando who uses the name @WokeCapital. (You can view a sample WokeCapital thread here, in honor of International Women’s Day.) This is a heady sample of cask-strength NRx shitpoasting, as opposed to the sherry-in-crystal-stemware stuff you get from geezers like me. Go have a look.

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On Civil War

March 7, 2019 – 2:57 pm

Just before heading off to Ireland a couple of weeks ago, I linked to a discussion between John Batchelor and Stephen F. Cohen about the “Sovietization” of American political culture in recent years. By this term, Professor Cohen referred to the increasing use of social, political, economic, and legal pressure to cow and silence those […]

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Back Home

March 5, 2019 – 7:37 pm

The lovely Nina and I are back in the States after a ten-day visit to Ireland. We spent time with family in Lucan (a western suburb of Dublin), and toured around a bit. Among the latter were a “black-taxi” tour of the troubled sections of Belfast (an area still deeply divided, in which the walls […]

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