Loyalists to Canada

230 years ago today, United Empire Loyalists arrived in Canada.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila at 100

A century ago today, Nicolás Gómez Dávila was born.

Some aphorisms:

• As long as they do not take him seriously, the man who says the truth can live for a while in a democracy. Then, the hemlock.
• Democratic parliaments are not forums where debates take place, but rather where popular absolutism registers its decrees.
• Being of “divine right” limited the monarch; the “representative of the people” is the representative of absolute Absolutism.
• In order to oppress the people, it is necessary to suppress in the name of the people that which stands out from the people.
• Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
• Liberty is the right to be different; equality is a ban on being different.
• No folktale ever began this way: Once upon a time, there was a president…

Constitution Day

A year short of two centuries ago today, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway was signed.

A previous May 17 performance by the Royal Guards:

Ron Paul Going Forward

RT reported a few weeks ago:

The full video of the opening of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity:

Ron Paul on Boston

MSNBCs take on police activity in Massachusetts dissected (H/T: Daniel McAdams):

And here's more (if there is any doubt, I do not endorse the text at the very end):

Fürst Metternich

A dozen score years ago today, Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein was born.

Osnabrück of Westphalia

365 years ago today, the Treaty at Osnabrück of the Peace of Westphalia was signed.

Paul, Rogers, and Farage

Ron Paul, Jim Rogers, and Nigel Farage spoke at recently at a conference in Chile. Here are some clips of their speaking:

Thoughts from Warner and Hitchens

Gerald Warner and Peter Hitchens have a few reflections.

Over at Scotland on Sunday, Mr. Warner:

• in defense of Hungary
• against the “Enlightenment”

Over at his MailOnline blog, Mr. Hitchens:

• on the money mess
• on chivalry

Mr. Hitchens also reflects on the evolution of marriage over at The American Spectator.

Quote of the Month (April)

Writes Mr. Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. over at his blog:

As if seeking to prove the truth of Democracy, the God That Failed in a sentence, Obama says that tyranny is impossible, because "the government is us."

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April Thoughts

ABM - A View From The Praires has some thoughts on primogeniture. The same blogger apparently has a plan for reactionary government in Canada.

Tea at Trianon has a post on the cake myth.

Some pseudonym says:

I wonder how many of the "don't read internet comments!" people think democracy is a good idea.

Anomaly UK has some thoughts on a reactionary transition.

Over at Nepali Netbook, says Maila Baje:

What would the Nepali Congress do about the damage that has already been done to Nepal’s ability to exercise its sovereign options? Here, the onus would fall heavily on the Nepali Congress, too, because much of that damage was inflicted by its rash desertion of the monarchy in the first place.

Writes Mr. Scott Ferrie over at his weblog The Paleo Revolt:

The American Ideology is Neo-Romanism. We worship the pagan god called the modern day, hyper-centralized, welfare-warfare state ruling over a global empire. Imperial Warlords are worshiped as demigods and our insane love for ‘democracy’ has transformed civil society into a real life example of ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ where competing interests plunder the rest of society for personal benefit in a short-sighted piranha-fest. Restore the traditional monarchy, restore the enforcement of the U.S. Constitution, or decentralize the modern nation-state out of existence. Any of those options will help.

Royal World has a post on the Dutch change of the throne.

So does Radical Royalist, who also posted on a restored German monarchy gaining support.

Forbes on Gold

Steve Forbes gives his thoughts on what is going on with gold:

And more from Mr. Forbes: