The MalaCast

“Yes, there is a “secret to happiness”—and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy."  -Dennis Prager   I can't believe Trump had this hit show for 12 seasons on network tv, was a household name, and had a real estate empire and said to himself, "You know Donald, why don't you put this stuff aside and dream BIG?"  AND IT WORKED   Let's all reflect on the genius of the Founders. With their goofy electoral college, they minimized the chances of fraud centuries in advance. Think about how much harder it is to cheat big in multiple states compared to, oh, the two or three most corrupt counties in America.        

"The good things are not small in number. They include almost every medical advancement that the world now enjoys. They include almost every scientific advancement that the world now benefits from. No meaningful breakthrough in either of these areas has come for many centuries from anywhere in Africa or from any Native American tribe. No First Nation wisdom ever delivered a vaccine or a cure for cancer."  -Douglas Murray   I discuss hatred of European descendants, which is surprisingly rife.  Descendants which, it must be noted, are beginning to mount a defense.   "Men's virtues have their season, as fruits do.”  -La Rochefocauld

“If I am drowning in a rapid river, a man who still has one foot on the bank may give me a hand which saves my life. Ought I to shout back (between my gasps) ‘No, it's not fair! You have an advantage! You're keeping one foot on the bank'? That advantage—call it ‘unfair' if you like—is the only reason why he can be of any use to me. To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?”  -CS Lewis   In one study of police that I have no reason to believe is atypical, they are more likely to experience euphoria than sadness after a fatal encounter.  Why are we always lectured about the toll that is invariably taken on those who commit homicide?  It's often, and probably usually not true, just wishful thinking by pacifists.   I give some thoughts on voting third party or, even sillier, writing in a candidate.  tldr:  lol   "It is just the people who are ready to submit to the loss of the thrill and settle down to the sober interest, who are then most likely to meet new thrills in some quite different direction."  -CS Lewis

“A thatched roof once covered free men; under marble and gold dwells slavery.”  -Seneca   The number of people who believe America is ready for a female President is down almost ten points since 2015.  Also, Kamala was border czar during what was apparently the worst period in American history for illegal immigration.   Both of these facts are going to present headwinds to her victory.  In other words, I'm not afraid.   "Men do not like being manipulated by women."  -Matt Walsh

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”  -Ronald Reagan Hulk Hogan ran wild on the RNC.  He and Elon appear to have had the same reaction to The Incident.  USA!  USA! “He who is brave is free.”  -Seneca

The President was very nearly assassinated.  Some leftists on Twitter, even well-known ones, lamented he was not.  How do you share a country with these awful people? I know this:  At the moment, we're blessed with the best leader we could ask for.

I hope Biden stays in the race because it's elder abuse.  Hah  "I'm telling you, that case would have never been brought. And that's what's offensive to people. And it should be."  -Andrew Cuomo  I review what the media told us versus what we all saw at the debate.  (h/t @DrewHolden360) I think I know why Biden agreed to the debate:  It was a Hail Mary. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.”  - Socrates, quoted by Plato, Phaedrus

"It is not the public but the private interest which influences the generality of mankind nor can the Americans any longer boast of an exception."  -George Washington   John Laurens made repeated efforts to free Southern slaves to fight for American independence and thereby gain emancipation.  He was foiled in this effort and died in a "trifling skirmish" at the age of 27.  What man could he have become, though?  We will never know.   It is a tendency identified by the late Australian political philosopher Kenneth Minogue as ‘St George in retirement' syndrome. After slaying the dragon the brave warrior finds himself stalking the land looking for still more glorious fights. He needs his dragons. Eventually, after tiring himself out in pursuit of ever-smaller dragons he may eventually even be found swinging his sword at thin air, imagining it to contain dragons.  If that is a temptation for an actual St George, imagine what a person might do who is no saint, owns no horse or lance and is being noticed by nobody. How might they try to persuade people that, given the historic chance, they too would without question have slain that dragon?  –Douglas Murray

“There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.”  -Unknown   President Biden, mercifully, had a catastrophic debate.   All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises.  –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West

“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”  -Ayn Rand   I am not morose although I predict the failure of the American society within the lifetime of my children and perhaps even myself.   Why?  Well, for one, I might be wrong.  I have been wrong about things before.  Maybe this will be like that.   Here are five more: I have children. I improve tangible things every week. I row the boat. I do something physically difficult every month or so. I read history.   “Desperate courage makes One a majority.”  -Andrew Jackson

All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises.  –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Alex Jones' assets are being liquidated to pay an unprecedented $1.5 BILLION judgment.  In other news, families have reached a settlement with the city of Uvalde, which let their children be butchered.  $2 million. I have noticed that many people on the left totally lack political empathy.  They are, if I may coin a phrase, political psychopaths.  So only punishment works to deter them from political evil. “Being unwilling to deter evil is a moral sickness.”  –me 6/1/24

“Ten million young women rose to their feet with the cry, “We will not be dictated to”: and proceeded to become stenographers.”  -GK Chesterton   "On the bad days when your toddler seems to be biting their nails nonstop, you might be tempted to do something that could make things worse.   Endless reprimands, long lectures, yelling, and punishments won't encourage your child to stop biting their nails. In fact, the negative attention may just make your child more determined to show you who's the boss of those nails."  -Healthline.com   “Education can strengthen the brain, but weaken the backbone.”  -Richard Nixon

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands of those who feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you. May posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."  -Samuel Adams   "Republicans will have to bring charges against Democratic officers, even presidents."  -John Yoo   “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

It was, I often mused, one of Somalia's strangest paradoxes.  When no one comes to help, they cry that the world is indifferent to their suffering.  And when people do come, what do the Somalis do?  They shoot them in the back of the head, drag the naked bodies through the streets, beat them to death with bricks.”  -Keith Richburg   It was the international community which failed all of us. Whether from contempt or cowardice."  -Rwandan President Paul Kagame “There are no devils left in hell.  They are all in Rwanda.”  -A Missionary, quoted in Time, May 16, 1994   “No one ever calculated what you do next if the people you come to help have no interest in being saved.”  -Keith Richburg

"It is easier to know man in general than to know one man in particular.”  -La Rochefocauld   Logan Hall's friend has sent him a picture I will always cherish.  It is of a New York street recently: https://x.com/loganclarkhall/status/1789342553524806135   “In the final stage of love, as in that of life, we are still living for pains, but no longer for pleasures.”  -La Rochefocauld

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”  -Aristotle   RFK supposes a little more of affirmative action and the "self-perpetuating" effects of "racist policies" will be cured.  But what if affirmative action is the problem, actually?   “Where there are no men, strive to be a man!”  -Hillel the Elder, circa 50 BC

“Few people are wise enough to prefer useful criticism to treacherous praise.”  -La Rochefocauld   "Thousands of records are being brutalized all over Asia, which is by far the most extreme event in world climatic history." -"Weather historian" Maximiliano Herrera   “The greatest fault of perceptiveness is not that it falls short of the truth, but that it goes past it.”  -La Rochefocauld

“I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.”  -Nicolás Gómez Dávila   In 1980, 6.5% of the US population was hispanic.   In 2000, 12.5% of the population was hispanic.   Today, it's perhaps 19%.   What are the implications of this?   When you import millions of hispanics, don't be surprised to find your society becoming more hispanic.   One way in which this is happening is in increasing anti-gun attitudes.   "An early 2014 Pew Research Center survey asked U.S. adults what is more important — protecting the right of Americans to own guns or controlling gun ownership (Pew Research Center, 2014d). Hispanic registered voters nationally say they prefer gun control over the rights of owners by a margin of 62%-to-36%, as do black registered voters by a margin of 71%-to-26%, according to the survey. By contrast, white registered voters choose gun owners' rights over gun control by a margin of 59%-to-39%."   "82% of foreign-born Hispanics think controlling gun ownership is more important than protecting gun ownership rights, compared with 59% of Hispanics born in the U.S."   The results of hispanic polling on the subject of free speech are no better.   "Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies."  –Nicolas Davila   https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2014/10/16/chapter-2-latinos-views-on-selected-2014-ballot-measure-issues/   https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/state-free-speech-tolerance-america#overview

We all have enough strength to bear the troubles of other people.  -La Rochefocauld   Call someone an isolationist or an anti-war activist, call it a sin tax or a progressive tax, call it an incentive or an effort to "fight" the thing incentivized.  Either way, the wise man knows words don't change how a thing works by even one little bit.   "Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over it."  -La Rochefocauld

"Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire.  A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience, that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it."  –Hitchens   Many of the reactions upon OJ's passing were deeply disturbing.  I share them with you so you know what to expect.   "Pervasive antiwhite antagonism is perhaps the best-kept secret about black inner-city culture."  –Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops

"Taste is relative" is the excuse adopted by those eras that have bad taste.  -Nicolás Gómez Dávila   A man gave his coat to a homeless bum and the homeless bum up and stole his wallet as thanks.   Solar eclipses are so overrated as to be barely worth looking up for.  Rarity aside, solar eclipses are about as interesting as rain.   "Their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”  -CS Lewis   https://twitter.com/AmiriKing/status/1776344677991453080  

Happy Easter!   I discuss the enslavement of perhaps 1,000,000 white/Christians by the barbary pirates and the man who finally brought that trade to an end.   "And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild."  -GK Chesterton

Seems like just yesterday Conan O'Brien et al were telling us about what a lovely place Haiti was, on account of Trump said it wasn't.  As the corpses are roasting in the streets, join me on a stroll down memory lane. "I am terrified of Africa.  I don't want to be from this place."  -Keith Richburg "I'm leaving Africa now, so I don't care anymore about the turmoil in Rwanda and have no interest in this latest tragic development."  -Keith Richburg

“It has been said critically that there is a  tendency in many armies to spend the peace time studying how to fight the last war.”  January-February 1929, The Military Engineer, “Some Notes on the World War” by J. L. Schley (Lieutenant Colonel, Corps of Engineers), pg. 55, col. 1L I read the State of the Union address and will give my thoughts. ““Did you ever in all your life see the head of a human being which so closely resembled that of a cod fish?” “He is not responsible for his head or his face. But why do you say he is a fraud? The newspapers call him a reformer, and give him credit for great efficiency.” “I deny your conclusions,” he replied. “A man of fifty is responsible for his face! Yes, I know he is courting the newspapers: that proves him a humbug and presumptively a fraud.” A few months later the official in question was found guilty by a court-martial of peculation and fraud in the management of his bureau and dishonorably expelled from the service.”  -Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, quoted by Lucius Crittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration

“Utopian ideologies invite genocide for two reasons. One is that they set up a pernicious utilitarian calculus. In a utopia, everyone is happy forever, so its moral value is infinite. Most of us agree that it is ethically permissible to divert a runaway trolley that threatens to kill five people onto a side track where it would kill only one. But suppose it were a hundred million lives one could save by diverting the trolley, or a billion, or—projecting into the indefinite future—infinitely many. How many people would it be permissible to sacrifice to attain that infinite good?"  -Stephen Pinker   According to my rough calculation, 50 million people were killed by their non-government countrymen in the 20'th century.  According to RJ Rummel, about 250 unarmed people were intentionally killed by governments over the same span.  5:1   "The failure of technological determinism as a theory of the history of violence should not be that surprising. Human behavior is goal-directed, not stimulus-driven, and what matters most to the incidence of violence is whether one person wants another one dead."  -Stephen Pinker

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. -Robert Frost. "The Secret Sits" (1942)   @psychiconfire makes a good point on Twitter.   Sometimes it is impossible to do good without appearing mean.   What does doing evil feel like?  Sometimes, *exactly like* doing good.   A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation says we will pass 300% debt:GDP ratio in 2044, 500% in 2058, and 1000% in 2078.  It's probably later than you think.  This present system of vote-buying will end, one way or another.   Certain jobs can only be done properly by people who don't care too much if they are fired.

Out of the crooked timber of man, no straight thing was ever made.  -Immanuel Kant   A Welsh slave was once given a direct order by his captor and notorious butcher of men, sultan Moulay Ismail of Morocco.  He refused it and lived.   This is the problem of despotism. It's why despotism, or even just authoritarianism, is all-powerful and brittle at the same time. Despotism creates the circumstances of its own undermining. The information gets worse. The sycophants get greater in number. The corrective mechanisms become fewer. And the mistakes become much more consequential.  –Stephen Kotkin   If the history of slavery ought to teach us anything, it is that human beings cannot be trusted with unbridled power over other human beings - no matter what color or creed any of them are.  –Thomas Sowell

"How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint."  –Robert Frost   "One woman died and more than 20 others were injured when gunfire erupted at the Kansas City parade."  -BBC   What I hate about Bill Maher - no retractions.   “Where courage is not, no other virtue can survive except by accident.”  -Dr Johnson

Nikki Haley:  "I am going to beat President Trump."  "In the hive and the ant-hill we see fully realised the two things that some of us most dread for our own species - the dominance of the female and the dominance of the collective." -CS Lewis

"It is a grave error to suppose that a dictatorship rules a nation by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would be evil, but almost bearable; men could endure the harshest edicts, provided these edicts were known, specific and stable; it is not the known that breaks men's spirits, but the unpredictable. A dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to rule by means of the unexpected, the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational; it has to deal not in death, but in sudden death; a state of chronic uncertainty is what men are psychologically unable to bear."  –Ayn Rand   Jim Jordan has revealed leaked Amazon emails.  One of which says:   "Starting March 9—the same day as its meeting with the White House—Amazon enabled “Do Not Promote” for books that expressed the view that vaccines were not effective."   I have two things to say.   The first is:  With government as limitlessly large and therefore limitlessly powerful as it is at present, it can do immense harm to your company or your life out of pure spite.  You will pay far more for thumbing your nose at the state than you would have in, say, 1880.   The second thing I have to say is:  These are among the biggest scandals in our history.  They will not be treated as such by our media because our media agree with infringing our First Amendment.   “It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”  -James Madison

"A lie never lives to be old."  –Sophocles   Walmart Battle Orc @ASo1omons:  "Brits are lost."   Egyptians only kept records of the good things.  So every battle was a win, just... closer.   Three illegals have been charged with armed robbery in Massachusetts.  I think the punishment should be somewhat more severe than whatever free room and board they will undoubtedly receive.   One reason why political pugilism is so popular is everybody wins.  At least, everybody who likes you and who you therefore like in return will slap you on the back no matter how poorly you did.   I may have figured out why the left, for all it's incessant winning, is so miserable.   “Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.”  -Brian May

“You ask me what makes Rockefeller the unquestioned leader in our group.  Well, it is simple. In business we all try to look ahead as far as possible. Some of us think we are pretty able. But Rockefeller always sees a little further ahead than any of us—and then he sees around the corner.”  -John Archbold   I've been listening to a "Great Course" on Audible.  It's by a man of the left and is therefore alienating and a bit dull.   He manages to critique Isaac Newton, the Bible, and Great Britain in the first two hours.   “Often it is those who are most critical of a ‘Eurocentric' view of the world who are most Eurocentric when it comes to the evils and failings of the human race.” -Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals

*disturbing content* Martin Luther King, Jr was many things.  Like me, he advocated nonviolent protest.  Unlike me, he was a Communist sympathizer.  An advocate of reparations and antiwhite discrimination.  But the most distressing allegation about the man is what he did in a hotel room once in the early 1960s. https://www.davidgarrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DJGStandpoint2019.pdf

“Man, I went through hell … I've really never been this sick,” he said. Stern also thanked those who helped develop the vaccine against COVID-19. “What a wallop this thing is — can you imagine if we didn't have the vaccine?” Josh Slocum:  Mistakenly once believed "That "science" was an un-contaminated-by-human-ego endeavor that could solve all human problems." To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more.  -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live. For neither in war nor yet in law ought any man use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death, if a man is willing to say or do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs deeper than death.  –Socrates   "I have also turned to Christianity because I ultimately found life without any spiritual solace unendurable — indeed very nearly self-destructive. Atheism failed to answer a simple question: what is the meaning and purpose of life?"  -Ayaan Hirsi Ali   "If the world is against the truth, then I will be against the world." —St. Athanasius of Alexandria

“In 100 years, we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching remedial English in college.”  -Joseph Sobran   A Charlie Brown Christmas, 1965, CBS, commissioned and sponsored by Coca Cola was simply breathtaking.  I play a clip   “The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago, and the second best time to plant a tree is now.”  -Local city councilman George W. White in 1967

“It has always therefore been one of my main endeavours as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire. … All contemporary writers share to some extent the contemporary outlook—even those, like myself, who seem most opposed to it. Nothing strikes me more when I read the controversies of past ages than the fact that both sides were usually assuming without question a good deal which we should now absolutely deny. They thought that they were as completely opposed as two sides could be, but in fact they were all the time secretly united—united with each other and against earlier and later ages—by a great mass of common assumptions. … People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes. They will not flatter us in the errors we are already committing; and their own errors, being now open and palpable, will not endanger us.”  -CS Lewis   I notice that on political debate shows, and in history textbooks, the bias is not found so often in lies or in errors, but in omissions, in focus.   John Ratcliffe was a fine man who was later made into a villain by leftists.  Why?  Because leftists rape history.   A man on Twitter asked me if "invaders" were "the bad guys." 1) Only sometimes. 2) Invasion pre-supposes boundaries and laws. 3) Is the leftist standard that illegals are "the bad guys" no matter what is done to them? No, the truth is they just hate Europeans and will use any twisted logic to make Europeans history's perpetual bad guys.

The Celebration Parallax may be stated as: “the same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it.”  -Michael Anton “That's not happening and it's good that it is.”  -Michael Anton “The War on Noticing.”  -Steve Sailer “A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”  -Anthony Daniels "...contemporary leftism is a revenge plot with themselves as its targets..."  -Michael Anton

"Now, God be praised, I die in peace!"  -James Wolfe "I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec."  -Louis-Joseph de Montcalm "Of the mother I was ten times more afraid than I ever was of my own parents."  -George Washington's schoolmate on George's mother George Washington had four bullets through his coat and two horses shot out from under him.  And that was before he ever got to the Revolution. George Washington was not offered permanent service in the British military because the latter hired and promoted on the basis of nepotism.    

George Washington really wanted to win the Revolutionary War.  He was desperate for it, thank God. “Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”  -Friedrich Nietzsche I stumbled upon a #MeToo video from 2018 and it's as foreign to me now as a video of the Salem Witch Trials would be.  What were people thinking?  Louis CK asked women if he could masturbate in front of them.  Love it or hate it it's not the work of Genghis Khan.  But that's how it was treated.  Louis inspired the same hatred as a Saddam Hussein did. "... a ravenous machine seeking new fears, new terrors. I'm telling you, this is the way modern society works—by the constant creation of fear. And there is no countervailing force. There is no system of checks and balances, no restraint on the perpetual promotion of fear after fear after fear. . . ."  -Michael Chricton

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.  -Abraham Lincoln   We set the last spring some twenty acres of Indian corn, and sowed some six acres of barley and peas, and according to the manner of the Indians, we manured our ground with herrings or rather shads, which we have in great abundance, and take with great ease at our doors.  Our corn did prove well, and God be praised, we had a good increase of Indian corn, and our barley indifferent good, but our peas not worth the gathering, for we feared they were too late sown, they came up very well, and blossomed, but the sun parched them in the blossom; our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a more special manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruit of our labors; they four in one day killed as much fowl, as with a little help beside, served the company almost a week, at which time amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest King Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain, and others.  And although it be not always so plentiful, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plenty. We have found the Indians very faithful in their covenant of peace with us; very loving and ready to pleasure us: we often go to them, and they come to us; some of us have been fifty miles by land in the country with them; the occasions and relations whereof you shall understand by our general and more full declaration of such things as are worth the noting, yea, it hath pleased God so to possess the Indians with a fear of us, and love unto us, that not only the greatest king amongst them called Massasoit, but also all the princes and peoples round about us, have either made suit unto us, or been glad of any occasion to make peace with us, so that seven of them at once have sent their messengers to us to that end, yea, an Fle at sea, which we never saw hath also together with the former yielded willingly to be under the protection, and subjects to our sovereign Lord King James, so that there is now great peace amongst the Indians themselves, which was not formerly, neither would have been but for us; and we for our parts walk as peaceably and safely in the wood, as in the highways in England.  -Edward Wilslow, 11 Dec 1621    It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.  -Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

Three years ago a French teacher named Samuel Paty was killed on his way home from the high school at which he taught because a Muslim was offended by Paty's speech. What has the effect been?  Well, two years after a British teacher made the same gesture Paty had (showing a drawing of Mohammed), he is in hiding under an assumed identity.  His life and the lives of his family have been turned upside down. And now 55% of teachers in the UK would not use images of "prophet" Mohammed in their classrooms even if it were relevant. The effect of terror is orders of magnitude larger than those killed or maimed. Those who imported millions of Muslims or supported doing so have the blood of your countrymen on your hands.  In a moral sense, you do not deserve to be here any more than they do.

I watched an interview with a Soviet defector.   He said journalists: -1) Fear the enemy so lie for him.  a la Vichy France.  2) If journalists tell the truth about figures they cover, typically they will be fired.  So all the remainers are loyal and therefore are disqualified from real journalism.  This is not true when a journalist's employer hates the target, of course.

“I thought that it was proper to commit injustice, so long as I would be the only one to suffer. But nothing can justify injustice.”  -Ayn Rand   Professor Gad Saad has painted a picture of the average anti-semite in America:  He's a white hick from the South!  Yes, this is what he and people like him really believe.  It's one of the last forms of acceptable, high-society bigotry left.  Of course, polling shows that white protestant middle-of-nowhere types actually hold Jews in high esteem, which, as you might realize reading the Saad Tweet, is not reciprocated.   The World Jewish Congress has published an ad against tearing down pictures of abducted Israeli children.  Who's tearing them down in the ad?  That's right, beautiful blonde coeds.  Just like has never happened once.   I don't find this sort of thing funny anymore.  I don't laugh at it, even in mockery.  This is evil.     On a related note, it turns out that the trans Nashville Christian school shooter hated white privileged kids for going to fancy private schools.  The so-called tranifesto has leaked to that effect.   Me and my kids are the last group you're allowed to hate.  "Abolish Whiteness."  I'm not playing along for one more second.   "We are often told it's foolish to bite the hand that feeds you. I say it's just as foolish to feed the hand that bites you."  Marji Ross

"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it." Francois de La Rochefoucauld   Washington DC is dealing with a nasty spate of carjackings.  Or, not dealing with them, to be more accurately.  But nothing would be easier:  100 bait cars every day, ten year sentences for every thief.  Boom, civilization again.   The TV actor Matthew Perry has died.  He prayed to God, once, to be famous.   I took my boy to the hospital.  It underscored my growing contempt for the medical profession:  "For the safety of our patients no weapons are allowed."   "The worst of all public dangers is the committee of public safety."  -CS Lewis

It is sometimes impossible to do good without appearing racist.  Sometimes you must choose between the two. Maybe to a more astute observer they wouldn't have.  Certainly not to a less astute one. The first is Israel:  The response to some thousand Israelis being tortured and murdered was... widespread pro-Palestine statements and demonstrations by the intelligentsia of the West.  Is this the first time terror attacks on civilians have been openly celebrated here, aside from Ward Churchill after 9/11? The second is that a DA in the United States is openly charging -- it is the written policy of her office -- whites more severely for the same crime.  I'm seeing absolutely red:  This woman is violating the 14'th Amendment. But I suppose it's ironically appropriate that the 14'th Amendment, which has been taken to mean women can have abortions after heartbeats are heard and brainwaves detected, is NOT taken to mean the law must be applied equally regardless of race. “One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims.” –Thomas Sowell

"The American Revolution presents the first example of slaveholders themselves not just questioning slavery's morality but considering doing something to end the system."  -Historian Christopher L Brown   "Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of one or the other race."  -Thomas Jefferson   "We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go."  -Thomas Jefferson   "The spirit of freedom which at the commencement of this contest would have gladly sacrificed every thing to the attainment of its object has long since subsided and every selfish passion has taken its place.  It is not the public but the private interest which influences the generality of mankind nor can the Americans any longer boast of an exception."  -George Washington   "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect and defend” it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."  -Abraham Lincoln   Book:  A Disease in the Public Mind, Fleming (2014)

"Lots of discussion at the sexual revolution debate about whether the revolution failed men, or failed women, or helped men more than women, or helped women more than men. Nobody asked whether the sexual revolution failed children. People already know. Too depressing a topic."  @robkhenderson September 15, 2023   Happy Columbus Day!   Hamas has killed 900 Israelis.  Why?  Because for decades Israel has gone unbearably soft on this menace.  It should finally say "no more, no matter what."  It should finally win.   "Though we bristle when we read of European colonists calling native people savages, and justly fault them for their hypocrisy and racism, it's not as if they were making the atrocities up. Many eyewitnesses have brought back tales of horrific violence in tribal warfare. Helena Valero, a woman who had been abducted by the Yanomamö in the Venezuelan rain forest in the 1930s, recounted one of their raids:   Meanwhile from all sides the women continued to arrive with their children, whom the other Karawetari had captured. … Then the men began to kill the children; little ones, bigger ones, they killed many of them. They tried to run away, but they caught them, and threw them on the ground, and stuck them with bows, which went through their bodies and rooted them to the ground. Taking the smallest by the feet, they beat them against the trees and rocks. … All the women wept."  -Steven Pinker

Radio is the theater of the mind.  Television is the theater of the mindless.  –Steve Allen   "In the past 24 hours: A liberal gay reporter was shot & killed in his home in Philly A far-left activist was stabbed to death by a deranged stranger in Brooklyn Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar was carjacked at gunpoint in DC by 4 black men But the crime wave is not real"  -@EndWokeness   Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.  -Eric Hoffer

"[Some] used their belief that blacks were innately lacking in ability to justify, for example, forbidding the teaching of blacks. Frederick Law Olmsted's response to the claim that blacks were no more capable of being educated than animals were was to ask why there were no laws forbidding animals from being educated."   -Thomas Sowell   I had a leftwing friend years ago and I explained why I was so outraged by NPR.  “Taking my tax money to push an ideological agenda I hate!”   My friend couldn't wrap his head around what I was so mad about.   The failure to put themselves in our shoes is almost total.   Therefore I propose hundreds of radio stations and podcasts funded by the left via tax money which push rightwing politics.  We have to explain less and illustrate more.   “I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.”  -Themistocles

When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble. –Camile Paglia Russell Brand is in hot water because the media and ex-girlfriends hate his politics. Which makes me wonder: How many Ukraine-flag waving triple maskers have skeletons in their closets? Bet more than a few. But the correct politics can cover you for quite a long time. just got raped. i'll let you know who the culprit is in about 10 years or so when i'm bored -@ChillAssMinor “Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.” -Francis Parker Yockey