Submitted by BAP Ye say it is the good cause which halloweth even war? I say unto you: it is the good war which halloweth every cause. War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery hath hitherto saved the victims. “What is good?” ye ask. To be…
Month: July 2022
Winners, Losers and Links
Winners Newsom Futures – Knives out for Biden. Kamala is a non-entity. Who else is capable or telegenic? Repo Men – More work coming their way as consumers struggle & recession officially arrives. Pre-covid Homebuyers – You’re locked in. Moving is unlikely, but you got a sweetheart mortgage rate and bought before the price explosion….
The Recession Is Coming
The Fed stated repeatedly in interviews that they were going to do everything to rein in inflation. This put a recession on the table. The Goldilocks soft landing or muddle through option is the dream, but it is hard to look at data and see it as an emerging reality. Whether Thursday’s GDP report confirms…
Winners, Losers and Links
Winners Gay Republican Staffers – They get their bosses approval finally as the GOP looks to roll over on codifying gay marriage. MIC – Congress added even more money to what the Biden admin asked to fund the Department of Defense. AOC – Complaining about a guy pointing out her cute booty as if she…
Downhill From Apex
We tend to think the ruling class doesn’t understand how the world works. We always put the same people who cause messes back in place to undo the mess they created. The monetary orchestra and its conductors who run Blackrock, Vanguard and States Street have a combined 20 trillion in assets and, by 2030, will…
When Reality Is Horror
The lament on the right is that we do not control institutions and do not create cultural products. Where are the right wing artists? People complain about it. Few do anything about it. The Passage Prize crew had a competition and released their collection for $400. We’re talking about cultural products that are accessible and…
Winners, Losers and Links
Winners Russian military – Slow grind in eastern Ukraine but the reports from Ukraine are ghastly. Asian Tories – Boris Johnson’s implosion means even more slots for Asian Tories to fill. Losers Employees – Layoffs starting in the middle of high inflation. More stress for those left to man understaffed departments. Retailers – Energy and…
New Realities in the Post-Roe World
It was a kind of blessing to have such insane abortion laws in America. It kept you honest. In America, pre-Roe, abortion was legal up to the moment before natural birth, for although Roe and Casey allowed states to place regulations, these all went out the Constitutional window if a woman could show carrying her…
Cossack or Cowboy (Pick Your Reins) – Part 2
By Timocrat in Life on the Steppes (Dealing with the Hordes)Part I appears here Cossacks vs. the Western Woke Culture Somewhere deep in Asia rests countless skulls and ruins of bygone ages and kingdoms, that the average person knows not, nor cares to learn. Only the most dedicated archeologist could name them and bring them…
Bodega Bullying
By Patrick Casey There are many cancellable offenses in the land of the free. Expressing the wrong opinion on a multitude of issues – from immigration policy, to drag shows for children, to whether Kyle Rittenhouse deserves life in prison – is a surefire way to find yourself vilified and, quite often, unemployed. What’s worse…
The American Sun 