Academic exercises are the purview of wealthy societies. And Dennis Prager is obviously a big fan of them. He is most interesting when he discusses the intersection of religious philosophy and morality with everyday life, but here he misses the forest for the trees. We already know who hid the Jews. It wasn’t enough, because…
Month: September 2021
The Morning Report 9/30/21
Good morning, kids. Thursday and honestly, with everything else that is happening, it seems almost pointless and stupid to get all excited about the seeming collapse of both this infrastructure bill and the insane socialist transformation bill. For all intents and purposes, despite the transparent illusion that “republican democracy” and “robust debate in the world’s…
The Morning Report 9/29/21
Good morning, kids. I suppose you could sum up today’s lead item, as Michael Goodwin of the New York Post has, in four words: “BIDEN LIED, THEY DIED.” That doesn’t merely apply to his disastrous order to drop everything, bug out of Afghanistan and grease the skids of Sino-Islamic global domination for decades if not centuries to…
The Morning Rant
J.J. Sefton has, over the last two days expounded on something that has been percolating in my consciousness for a few months. Today he eviscerated (but gently!) Karol Markowicz for the admittedly pie-in-the-sky idea that we can’t have a national divorce, but We Can Work It Out! But, apologies to The Beatles…No We Can’t! Whether…
The Morning Report 9/28/21
Good morning, kids. Tuesday and I suppose I’m not quite finished with yesterday’s theme of being akin to Bruce Willis’ character in The Sixth Sense — trying to interact with the world but not realizing you’re dead. Not quite the same metaphor as Tom Lea’s “The Last Step” but close enough for government work. Pun intended. And…
The Morning Report 9/27/21
Good morning, kids. Start of a new week and I’ve been thinking about a painting done by World War 2 artist/illustrator Tom Lea. Though best known for his work “The Two Thousand-Yard Stare,” it’s an equally haunting work he created during the battle for Pelelieu, which coincidentally was in its opening phase 77 years ago, that I…
Round And Round It Goes; Where It Stops Nobody Knows (Except For The People Who Read History)
The time is long past when the mere presence of American troops was a robust deterrent against incursions from bad actors. That deterrence ended on January 20th, 2021, when President Donald Trump left office. It is laughable and naive in the extreme to assume that any agreement made by the current administration (junta) would be…
The Morning Report 9/24/21
Good morning, kids. The weekend is here and a quick survey of the links fills me with both a sense of dread and believe it or not, one of hope. For sure we are heading at “warp speed” (pun intended) for catastrophe. At this point, with the Afghanistan bug-out disaster disappearing from the headlines (undeservedly…
The Morning Report 9/23/21
Good morning, kids. Thursday and the law of totalitarian physics is certainly in evidence. To wit, the more ruin the Left inflicts and the more it is rejected, the louder and more vituperative the vitriol hurled back at us, and the tighter the screws are turned. At the risk of mixing metaphors, only two things…
The Morning Report 9/22/21
Good morning, kids. Yesterday, while riding a bus out in the hinterlands of Staten Island, feeling a bit disconnected from the current multiple insanities engulfing the world, I clicked over to the HQ and was stunned by the news of Angelo Codevilla being struck and killed in some sort of traffic accident. It’s even more…