“The Gun is Civilization” by Maj L Caudill (USMC-Ret)
This essay comes via the website of Fr John Peck, and his website, The Orthodox Church of Tomorrow, of Sun City, Arizona. In the How Things Work Department of Liberty, it is a stark argument...
Failure to State a Claim Upon Which Relief Can be Granted
"Failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted is a defense to a legal claim."
It means that the claimant has failed to present sufficient facts which, if taken as true,...
How the Tea Party Replaced National Review as the Intellectual Standard Bearer for Conservatism
In March 2011 I suggested that the Tea Party had become the intellectual antidote to the Left, which was never really that difficult. But it was not so much to tweak the Left that I wrote that as to serve notice...
Donald Trump and the People’s Existential Threat
This is an update on a theme I raised in February 2016, "Donald Trump and the People" as I think the people see their existential threat more clearly now than they did seven months ago.
In...
The Conscience of the Court
Modern Americans believe Roe v Wade (1973) was the worst Supreme Court decision ever rendered. I place it at #2, since Roger B Taney's majority opinion in the Dred Scott decision in 1857 was ...
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...