Among only a few iconic characters in the history of literature and film, James Bond stands astride the cultural landscape like a handsome, outwardly charming, potentially deadly, action-spy colossus.
Bond-creator Ian Fleming – himself having acquired a U.K. spy background – wrote 12 Bond novels and nine short stories, beginning in 1953, and numerous other authors such as Kingsley Amis, John…
As partisan political figures point fingers in East Palestine, Ohio, they avoid discussing the perverse economic incentives that their claims of “regulation” create.
They avoid not only the financial truth that “regulated” rail operators are incentivized by government to reach only the “safety minimum” the government dictates, but they also avoid the reality that rail operators recognize the…
If the years of unreliable, data-shaving, propagandistic activities of people at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Institute for Airborne and Infectious Disease (NIAID), National Institutes for Health (NIH), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been insufficient to warn Americans away from them, and if the fact that the US Constitution neither mentions them nor…
If the 1992 FBI slaughter of innocent people at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, or its shocking 2014 extrajudicial aggression against the peaceful Bundy family in Nevada were not enough to energize a contemporary call for the Federal Bureau of Investigations to be at least reduced in size and budget, if not completely eliminated for the challenge to the Constitution it represents – and if the FBI’s seeming…
What a difference a week makes – or doesn’t.
Since MRCTV and people worldwide sounded the alarm about Penguin Random House literally rewriting Roald Dahl’s novels – purging them of wit, nuance, and the work Dahl put into the tales and instead fitting them to a progressive, milquetoast, woke mindset – nincompoop navigators at the publishing giant have “reconsidered” their actions.
And…
Both CounterPunch.org and The New American offer valuable coverage of an important study detailing not just the self-defeating power and resource requirements pervading every level of the inefficient “green energy” chain, but which also reminds interested parties that there is not enough mineral matter to replace storable-burnable oil and gas as fuel.
Writes Selwyn Duke, of The New American:
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The feds are readying another weapon to invade our privacy.
From Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1933 demand that Americans turn-in their GOLD, to the 1970 “Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act,” aka the “Bank Secrecy Act,” that requires what the federalistas call “financial institutions” (a term that they apply to pawn-brokers, car dealers, travel agents, and casinos, among others) to…
There’s something special about a news story that packs two lessons about the sinister activities of government and the gullible way some “reporters” write about it.
Take the absurd headline and article offered by Politico and its writer, Nicolas Camut:
“Spain approves paid menstrual leave, first country in Europe to do so”
It’s a headline that, to put it mildly, shields the reader from the…
In a development reflecting the ever-wider circles leftist create to demonize Christian virtues, Natural Rights, fine art, family, tradition, and respect for truth -- and which collectivists also use to silence people who promote those virtues -- the U.K.'s Daily Mail reports that a high-level British government counter-terrorism agency has claimed that to enjoy or be interested in…
Writers and advocates of fine writing have seen this coming. It began decades ago as part of the Postmodern “Deconstructionism” movement in college and high school literature classes. It started with leftist “teachers” claiming that there were “hidden meanings” and “subtexts” to tales that the authors never overtly acknowledged, and which, likely, the authors never really put into the stories.…
