"If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master." ~ Jordan Peterson
The evacuation of Afghanistan is going as nightmarishly as one can expect. Taliban forces are firing into crowds while people as they desperately try to escape a country that will fall back under the extreme views of these new oppressors. Seven so far have been killed. Many more are sure to follow. Afghanis have died […]
Read More A Grim Sign for our alliesFeatured image by Marie. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. Thucydides once said, “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” We are being lead by cowards and our military commanded by fools. We care more for petty strife […]
Read More Scholars and WarriorsFeatured image from Eat This, Not That! Follow the link for an interesting article on expected food shortages expected this year. I don’t know if you’ve gone to the grocery store recently, or if you’ve gone out to eat recently, or have gone to fill up at the gas station recently, but the cost of […]
Read More Why self-reliance matters…Interesting to see how life imitates art on occasion. For those who follow my blog, thank you. One of my favorite movies is V for Vendetta, a graphic novel based movie about an anarchist anti-hero in a dystopian totalitarian England. While the movies villain, High Chancellor Sutler, appears from the “conservative” party, the parallels to […]
Read More Food for thought…Featured image from the New York Times photographer Li Zhensheng. Twain was quoted as saying that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. If left alone, the authoritarian left will become a totalitarian government, engaging in the same tyranny that every socialist and communist revolution that has come before. My post will be short. […]
Read More An American Cultural RevolutionI had a small rant with a coworker this morning, in front of another coworker who identifies as a Democrat. My coworker was asking why many more people were masking up recently. The Democratic coworker asked if he had been watching the news, which piqued my interest (he had not been watching the news by […]
Read More Why Personal Responsibility Matters…Featured image by Chris Hobcroft. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. Utopia is a fleeting thing. We want for a world in which everything is available in abundance with no work. We crave a world in which we can pursue our passions and never worry about finding food, shelter, or any physical […]
Read More The Dark Side of UtopiaFeatured Image from the Chicago Sun Times, follow the link for some bulls**t puff piece about Antifa. It’s odd how life imitates art sometimes. I wish it weren’t the case these days… We’re watching in real time, a collapse of the American Republic, and in its place a Democrat controlled authoritarian state being erected, all […]
Read More So This is how Liberty Dies…Ladies and gentlemen, we are not living in a free society. As Rousseau said, “Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains.” If you have ever played chess, you enter into the endgame phase, the part of the game where the necessary sacrifices have already been made, and the momentum toward either victory […]
Read More The Illusion of Freedom…Featured image by Taki Steve. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. Inflation is here folks. In many insidious forms, the glut of money dumped carelessly into the economy by a government that believes in printing and spending its way into prosperity is beginning to reap the consequences of its lack of impulse […]
Read More Here comes the “Flation Family”
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