Thursday, August 20, 2015
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Franz Josef Born
15 years short of two centuries ago today, Archduke Franz Josef was born.
Gott erhalte und beschütze den Kaiser!
Monday, August 17, 2015
An Archduke Born
128 years ago today, Archduke Charles of Austria – later Emperor-King – was born.
Gott erhalte und beschütze den Kaiser!
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Friday, August 14, 2015
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Monday, August 10, 2015
Donald Trump
I was in the audience when Donald Trump spoke at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas on Saturday July 11.
I am reminded that Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn warned us against being ruled by merchants.
If elected, will he be better than his predecessors? Perhaps, but I am skeptical. From a show perspective, he certainly is refreshing.
Indeed he talks about immigration as a problem, which “no one else” talks about, but legal immigration is also a problem.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Friday, July 31, 2015
Quote of the Month
Over at Gary North's Specific Answers, writes Dr. Gary North:
Lots of people celebrate July 4. I do not.
The Declaration of Independence justified armed secession. It was signed by a handful of lawyers on July 4, 1776. Secession was a way of transferring a great deal of power to colonial legislatures, where most of these lawyers were members. It was a way of replacing governors appointed by the King with governors elected by men of the colonies.
Then the law of unintended consequences once again made itself felt: higher taxes, hyperinflation, price controls, default on state debts, and (in 1788) a new centralized government that dwarfed the power of the British Empire's distant sovereignty in 1776. Finally, a new firm of democracy arose, a democracy of nine Supreme Court justices. The sovereignty of “we the people” – the most rhetorically powerful and most misleading phrase in American history – morphed into the sovereignty of five justices.
Surprise, surprise – but not to the Anti-Federalists of 1787, and surely not to the loyalists of 1776, who had their property stolen by the new governments after 1783. A hundred thousand of them were in Canada in 1788, living under a far less centralized government.
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