Quote of the Month

Over at his MailOnline blog, Mr. Peter Hitchens says:

Well, we have had a reflective and passionless revolution which had no intention of being either observed or interrupted, let alone reversed, so we are a country full of empty shells, still looking as they did, but emptied of all meaning.

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Spengler

135 years ago today, Oswald Spengler was born.

National Industrial Recovery Act Defeated

Four score years ago today, the SCOTUS struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.

EvKL Passing at 16

16 years ago today, Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn passed away.

His work is indeed needed in this day and age, and comes in handy as the world get deeper and deeper into its belief in democratism and the problems it causes.

Over at Counter-Currents Publishing, Alexander Jacob reviews the thinking of the late Austrian nobleman.

Please feel free to browse previous posts.

Habsburg and Savoy

A century ago today, the Kingdom of Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary.

Russian Summer Ball 2015

The details of the London Russian Summer Ball for 2015 have been released. It's the 20^th annual ball in the series. It will take place on Saturday June 20^th.

Constitution Day

Austrian Independence Treaty of 1955

60 years ago today, the Austrian Independence Treaty was signed. One of the provisions read:

Austria shall have a democratic government based on elections by secret ballot and shall guarantee to all citizens free, equal and universal suffrage as well as the right to be elected to public office without discrimination as to race, sex, language, religion or political opinion.

And yes, then there is this:

Austria further undertakes to maintain the law of 3rd April, 1919, concerning the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine.

Norway – the Place to Be?

RMS Lusitania

A century ago today, a justification statement for the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, a century and a day ago today, was issued.

Elsewhere: Ad-Orientem

Liberation Day

Happy Liberation Day!

Hayek on Keynes

Nobel Memorial Laureate Prof. Dr. Friedrich August von Hayek talks about Lord Keynes:

Sowell on Entitlements

Dr. Thomas Sowell gives his take on entitlements and other issues:

Faber and Grant

Jim Grant One-On-One

H/T: LewRockwell.com

The War on Cash

Over at Doug Casey's International Man, Dr. Joseph Salerno is interviewed about the war on cash.

Churchill and Gallipoli

Over at LewRockwell.com, Eric Margolis examines Churchill and military operations in the Dardanelles.

Randoms from April

Over at LewRockwell.com, writes Dr. Paul Craig Roberts:

Any American who thinks that he lives in a free country is delusional. He has no protection against roving gangs of goon thugs, and the state has license to steal his children. If America is a free country, I would hate to contemplate an unfree country.

Over at his weblog Royal World, pens Mr. Theodore Harvey:

The catastrophic destruction of cultural heritage in Nepal, along with the loss of human life, is horrible indeed, but I wish that more people could come to see the abolition of an ancient monarchy, as happened in Nepal seven years ago, as being just as tragic a cultural loss as this, though far more preventable.

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark celebrated her 75^th last month. At a press event Her Majesty protested a reporter addressing her informally, discussed at the Royal Forums.

It's that Day Again...

for celebration of socialism: