Monthly Archives: July 2023

Huge If True!

July 26, 2023 – 4:53 pm

Korean researchers are reporting that they have developed an easy-to-make room-temperature superconductor. If so — well, hang on to your hats, folks. Story here. Update, 8/10: Never mind.

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Oy Vey!

July 25, 2023 – 6:04 pm

Now it’s Israel’s turn to fall apart. The country is engulfed in a constitutional crisis between its old-school Bolheveist left (cheered on, of course, by the usual organs of the Left, both there and here) and those in the center and on the Right (who, according to our mass media, are “authoritarian” “extremists” who want […]

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Divide And Conquer

July 22, 2023 – 12:10 pm

The always-thoughtful Richard Fernandez posted the following thread recently on Twitter: The catastrophic loss of institutional trust has made it imperative for the establishment to roll out virtual reality, not through goggles and special chairs, but by manipulating the entire information environment so that we live inside a lie. One way to detect that you […]

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Anthony Bouza, October 4, 1928 – June 26, 2023

July 15, 2023 – 6:43 pm

I learned with great sadness the other day that my good friend of more than thirty years, Anthony V. Bouza, died late last month in his adopted hometown of Minneapolis. He was 94. In his long career as a policeman Tony rose from his humble origins, and the lowest rank, to the penultimate pinnacle of […]

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Missouri v. Biden

July 5, 2023 – 7:14 pm

Yesterday U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty gave us a fine Independence Day gift: a preliminary injunction against the government’s censorship of social-media content. The case built upon the government’s coercion of Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms to suppress commentary on COVID, the 2020 election, the Hunter Biden laptop, and other matters we should have […]

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Service Notice

July 4, 2023 – 1:36 pm

Happy Independence Day, everybody. Attending the 4th-of-July parade in a small New England town — lots of smiling happy families, and Old Glory on display everywhere — is a reminder that wherever things are headed in America, it ain’t over yet. Our daughter, her husband, and our three young grandsons — Liam, almost seven, Declan, […]

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Sailer At VDare

July 2, 2023 – 5:11 pm

Steve Sailer recently gave his first public speech in a decade or so at VDare’s summer conference (which was held a couple of weeks ago at the castle they now own, in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia). Here it is:

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