Originally posted August 30, 2018. Robert W. Merry explains at The American Conservative that Donald Trump’s political emergence interrupted “the coalition of the ascendant,” which had intended to “overwhelm the declining white majority and usher in a new era of globalism, open borders, identity politics, free trade, cultural individualism, foreign policy interventionism, and gun control.” […]
Crushing Viktor Orban Victory Will Derail Soros
Originally posted on April 9, 2018. Not only did Fidesz, the party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, win a majority of Hungary’s parliamentary seats, it won a super-majority of two thirds and will be able to enact constitutional changes with ease. The victory is problematic for the establishment in Europe that wishes to expand Brussel’s […]
Pat Buchanan Quoting Russia’s Putin on Open Borders
Paul Gottfried examines the idea of “liberalism” in The American Conservative, writing (abridged): In a recent column, TAC co-founder Pat Buchanan quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin to the effect that the liberal principle may be falling into disrepute: “Why is liberalism failing? Several causes said Putin. Among them, its failure to deal with the crisis of the age: […]
Hillsdale College: What College Is Meant to Be
From the website of Hillsdale College: This is what college is meant to be. Think about the people you want to be around. Think about everything that’s the opposite of shallow and trendy. Think about four years of conversations you’ll never forget. That’s Hillsdale College. In and out of class, people here are on […]
Democracy: The Most Dangerous and Insidious Effect of Majority Rule.
Writing in the now defunct magazine, The Freeman, in 2007, Walter E. Williams discussed the claim that America is a democracy. He wrote (abridged): How often do we hear the claim that our nation is a democracy? Was a democratic form of government the vision of the Founders? As it turns out, the word democracy […]
Viktor Orban: No Immigrant Invasion for Hungary!
Originally posted on April 23, 2018. Commenting on Viktor Orban’s most recent successful election in Hungary, Pat Buchanan explains to readers of The American Conservative that Orban won because he is “addressing the primary and existential fear of peoples across the West.” The particular fear Pat is referring to is that of having their culture […]
Hungarian Hardliner Viktor Orban Shows European Globalists the Way
Originally posted on February 14, 2019. In an address to the people of Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban reminded its citizens that the success they have had recently has not occurred in a vacuum. His pro-Hungary policies and their hard work have made life in the country better. Despite constant harassment by Europe’s globalists who […]
The Butterfly Effect and Chaotic Markets
Securities markets endure any number of threats each day. Sometimes news that appears dire isn’t necessarily so. Other times, the market overlooks the little signals that portend a rout. After the 2005 revaluation of the yuan by China, I discussed how such seemingly small developments could create major change via the “butterfly effect.” I wrote […]
America’s Colleges Have Become Progressive Liberal Rat Holes
Ziva Dahl of The American Spectator writes (abridged): An Ohio bakery was just awarded $44 million from Oberlin College as compensation for being defamed as racist by college administrators. Considerable focus has been placed on the role of progressive college professors in setting the intellectual norms on campus. The ever-growing ranks of left-leaning administrators are […]
Soros’s Open Society Foundation, Charles Koch Team Up
Daniel Larison of The American Conservative writes (abridged): Stephen Kinzer comments on the creation of a new think tank, The Quincy Institute, committed to promoting a foreign policy of restraint and non-interventionism: Kinzer tells readers that “Since peaceful foreign policy was a founding principle of the United States, it’s appropriate that the name of this […]
