Quote of the Month

Writes the Mad Monarchist:

I am a monarchist and heaping adulation and hero worship on a republican politician is not on my list of priorities.

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Stossel: Politically Correct History

John Stossel reviews some of politically correct history:

The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism

Mr. Stefan Molyneux presents the myth of Scandinavia:

All the King's Men...

230 years ago today, His Britannic Majesty's forces left New York.

C.S. Lewis Passing

50 years ago today, C.S. Lewis passed from this world.

To quote:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Aldous Huxley Passing

Today marks half a century since the passing of Aldous Huxley, author of the dystopia Brave New World.

Uncrowned Emperor 101

Today marks the 101^st birthday of the late Archduke Otto of Austria – the third after his passing.

Ian Douglas Smith Passing

Half a dozen years ago today, Ian Douglas Smith passed away.

Rhodesia was lost to the Wilsonian World Order and its blind faith in absolute universal suffrage democracy. The result lies open for everyone to see.

Gettysburg Address at 150

Three halves of a century ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.

On this day we recall the words of Samuel Langhorne Clemens:

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

Remember also some words of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn:

While it is perhaps true that “one cannot fool all the people all the time,” it seems that one can fool millions for centuries.

A behemoth was to rise to make the world “safe” for democracy.

Happy National Day, Monaco!

The Principality of Monaco, one of two monarchies in Europe where the monarch can actually in any meaningful way be said to still be ruling, celebrates her National Day.

Congratulations! Especially to the Princely Family and the people and residents of Monaco!

Schiff and Rogers

Peter Schiff and Jim Rogers have their recent takes on the financial madness:

Quote of the Month (October)

Writes Schlarlach over at the weblog Habitable Worlds:

Democracy is rule by idiots who vote for things that sound good to them at the time.

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Viva o Império Brasileiro!

A century and a couple of dozen years ago today, Emperor Pedro II was deposed.

124 years of Interregnum is more than enough!


Over at Royal World, Mr. Theodore Harvey reported from his Brazil trip in June.

Guns Silent

95 years ago today, the guns of the Great War fell silent – the last anniversary of Armistice Day before the centennial of the beginning of that same dreadful war.

On the same day, the Emperor of Austria renounced power and the Austro-Hungarian Imperial-Royal Family moved from Schönbrunn to internal exile at Eckartsau.

Two days prior, the German abdication had been announced.

Two days later, the Hungarian equivalent to the Austrian renunciation was signed at Eckartsau.

A world ended, it was the dawn of a new age, the era of Wilsonian mass democracy.

This eleventh of November is also the 66^th anniversary famous dictum on democracy. It is too the anniversary of the House of Lords Act 1999.

The American Republic and an Interregnum

Four score and a dozen years ago today, the peace treaty after the Great War between Austria and those United States came into force.

Bloody Red October

Eight dozen years ago today, the world was struck by Red October.

Sweden and Norway in Union

A year short of two centuries ago today, the Kingdoms og Sweden and Norway were joined in union through the Norwegian Parliament's constitutional amendment of this day, resulting in what is known as the November Constitution.

A short tribute to then-Crown-Prince and later King: