The media largely stopped reporting on the Chauvin story months ago, after the jury verdict was announced. The result of the show trial was never much in doubt. The only intrigue about the trial arose about whether the prosecutors would mess it up. To their credit, they did. There were multiple grounds for a mistrial….
Month: June 2021
Four Americas, One State
The lines demarcating American tribes are hardening. In some ways they do not seem to be so firm. The Atlantic allowed George Packer to write on this phenomenon. It is a nice enlightened liberal view of the political arena for 2021. It is also a Boomer hand-waving of the problems the current configuration of America…
Winners, Losers & Links
Winners Vaccine makers – The re-opening is built on people being vaxxed so social pressure is high. Exports to the Third World start. Even if there is a pause for America’s youth, the doses will flow elsewhere and all paid for. Homeschool Families – More families will join their ranks, which should make small pod…
A Better State Approach to Gun Control Nullification
It is clear the Biden administration intends to significantly ramp up its attempt to suppress private gun manufacturing and ownership by using the ATF’s regulatory authority to redefine millions of existing parts and weapons as illegal. Their whimsically detailed spreadsheets and twelve-part “what is a gun, anyway” multifactor tests notwithstanding, there is no good faith…
To Love & To Hate
Qui diligitis Dominum, odite malum If you’re looking for a Latin aphorism to memorize, I recommend memorizing this. It is pithy and sweet. It has roots you’re likely to recognize in English words. It is a Bible verse, Psalm 96 (or 97 in the new translations). It would look proud and manly on a family…
Fiddling While the Classics Department Burns
By Constantine Palaiologos I would say that it is sad to see classics sliding into irrelevance as a field but, having studied it myself in college, I know that the slide is already complete. When I see that Princeton is abolishing requirements for classics students to learn Latin or Greek I can only shrug, and…
Winners, Losers & Links
Winners The Anti-CRT Crowd – This crowd is winning an argument. The test will be if they win the curriculum fight. Russia – President Biden did not bite. He also asked for nearly 20 critical infrastructure pieces to be off-limits for cyberattacks. Blackrock – The prestige media rallied to defend their current hoovering up of…
Me and American Pilgrim
Submitted by Billy Pratt “The ghosts of West Virginia, they are calling me home…” Day breaks as I sit in my Honda Accord- a car without much utility outside of taking a civilized man to his civilized job- sipping coffee with an eye on the Misfits air freshener dangling from my rearview mirror when it…
California Sell Out
Submitted by Oxnardian California is a basket case but if you make big money, you can live in a luxurious bubble. People ask me why I stay, and I count down to retirement. I’m trapped, but I can look back and see the big steps the business community and government took to transform the state….
A Shift On The Right
The post-Trump right is disorganized right now but a Trumpian policy set seems to be forming. The economic nationalism and populism he pitched seems here to stay. A deeper shift is occurring that has gone unnoticed. The pundit class has begun to call things anti-white. This is a noticeable shift that has occurred with no…
The American Sun 