Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year.

From Vienna:

WRU Unplugger of the Year

Inspired by the Western Confucian, who has named Ron Paul the “Western confucian of the Year,” a WRU Unplugger of the Year is named.

The WRU Unplugger of the Year need not be a monarchist, nor regret the fall of the Old European Order. The WRU Unplugger of the Year is simply the one who is considered to have done most in bringing about the unplugging of the Wilson Revolution.

The awardee has done an excellent job at promoting ending:

• American policing of the world
• the Federal Reserve
• government managing society and the economy

All of which are major components of the Wilson legacy, and hence of the Wilson Revolution. Ending American policing of the world is an important presupposition for the Wilsonian World Order to yield for something better.

The 2008 WRU Unplugger of the Year is:

The Honorable United States Representative Ronald Ernest Paul, M.D.

Quote of the Month

Wrote Mr. Gerald Warner:

The Grand Duke of Luxembourg rules a country which claims to be overwhelmingly Catholic. There is little evidence of popular support for legalised murder, but parliament has passed this neo-Nazi legislation by 30 votes to 26. That so few people should make life-and-death decisions for so many is striking testimony to how democracy has become the slickest form of tyranny.

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Plans for Berlin

Fellow monarchist Andrew Cusack reports on reconstruction plans for Berlin.

Vendée to Be Termed Genocide?

The Daily Telegraph reports on an issue of the Vendée.

Royal World and the Western Confucian has more and more respectively.

Nepal Future

Kamal Thapa believes the Nepalese monarchy has become more relevant. So the Telegraph Nepal reports.

Where's My Bailout?

Inflationary Language

Via Karen De Coster at the LRC Blog:

Peter Schiff

Peter Schiff now has his own YouTube channel.

Here are a couple of recent videos on the trouble ahead:





Over at the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Schiff has a column.

Here are a couple of videos from earlier this month (another channel):





Update: It's not an official Peter Schiff channel.

Selected Stossel

John Stossel's Politically Incorrect Guide to Politics (in 6 parts, all in one player):



Stossel's Stupid in America:



Stossel's Sick in America (in 6 parts, all in one player):

Bête Noire Born

152 years ago today, the Persona Non Grata of this weblog was born.

For his 61^st birthday, he gave to himself and his nation nationalization of U.S. railroads. On this day four score and eleven years ago today, the United States Railroad Administration came into effect.

Was this part of the concept of spreading freedom?

While this particular measure ended i 1920, we are in general stuck today with a legacy of managing society and the economy from above. Just look at the Federal Reserve and the common belief that the economy can be managed by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. We are in the age of pervasive government, and it was with the Great War we entered it. There is still a lot of mess left from the end of the Progressive Era.

Please feel free also to read here, here, and here.

Spanish Democracy Sanctioned

3 decades ago today, King Juan Carlos I of Spain gave his assent to the democratic constitution, after a referendum 3 weeks earlier.