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Big Things in a Small Town by Jeff Workman
Into The Blue is about finding joy in simple pleasures. One of those pleasures is a small town. My wife and I have owned a camper van for several years. […]
The Virginia Way Is Dead by Paula T. Weiss
When I moved to Virginia from Minnesota in 1995, I was impressed by the calm surface of local politics. My new home, Northern Virginia, had moderate Republicans and Democrats representing […]
The Siren Song of the Jihadist: Mamdani and the New New York by Paula Weiss
Illustration is “Treacherous Attack by Saracens–Chroniques de France ou de Saint Denis Royal” courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. The candidacy of Zohran Mamdani is an affront to the memory of every […]
Who Will They Kill Next? by Sam Faddis
Charlie Kirk is dead. He was assassinated because he stood for reason and free speech. The Revolution is predicated, as are all Marxist revolutions, on the principle of blind obedience. […]
Where Publishers Fear To Tread by Michael Jay Friedman
Moral panic, anyone? Back in the 1950s, Americans convinced themselves that comic books were subverting our nation’s youth. The Seduction of the Innocent, proclaimed a famed psychologist cited in Brown […]
The President Who Would Be a Grandmother a short story by Paula Weiss
How I got here, in the Oval Office, I do not really know. Sometimes I am afraid to be in this historic room, at this historic desk, feeling like an […]
Where is Our Asylum, From Your Asylum? by Daniel Jupp
The madhouse that is Modern Britain. “Now we have press reporting on the huge scale of the crime committed by illegal immigrants housed in the Government’s own asylum hotels. The […]
Culture Wars Dispatch: The Battle of Cracker Barrel by Paula Weiss
Cracker Barrel fired the grapeshot on August 17th with a new logo and the presentation of a new, cleaner, more streamlined restaurant design. The likely corporate expectation was that a […]
Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump a review by Chuck Chalberg
Salena Zito’s new book is less the story of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, than it is the lengthier story of the 2024 campaign for the […]
Wake Up Time: Review of Asra Nomani’s “Woke Army”
Review by Paula Weiss Who would have guessed that a mere two decades after al-Qa’ida terrorist-piloted planes killed 3000 New Yorkers, the leading contender in New York’s mayoral election would […]
Burning Trash for Energy, People and Planet by Paul Driessen
Waste-to-Energy reduces landfilling, increases recycling, powers society and avoids blackouts After years of opposing them, but facing constituents increasingly angry about rising electricity prices, New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently […]
The Country Has Moved to Trump’s Position on Immigration by David Shephard
First the Republican Party Moved Trump’s Way, Then the Country Came Along In 2012 the Republican Party suffered their second straight Presidential loss. Yes, for those of you who may […]
Make Europe Great Again by Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary
This speech was delivered at the Conference of Speakers of European Union Parliaments on 12 May 2025, Budapest. Good morning. Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I warmly and cordially welcome […]
Why “Free Palestine” Has Become an Antisemitic Dog Whistle by Jonathan Ressler
In a different world, “Free Palestine” might have been a noble rallying cry—a call for peace, justice, and human dignity for all people in the region. But we don’t live […]
The Lucy Connelly Case and the Sick Tyranny of Keir Starmer’s Britain by Daniel Jupp
Connolly has lost her appeal, but it is our government and judges who are the real criminals here. Lucy Connelly has just lost her appeal against the 31 month sentence […]
Your Baby’s Ugly and They Don’t Want Your Stuff by Paula Weiss
When our neighborhood association announced it would hold a yard sale and we were welcome to participate at our homes, we jumped at the opportunity. Our house is cluttered. Clean, […]
Time of No Return: Albania’s Upcoming Elections and the US by Nina Gjoçi
“The best time of our lives is when our country calls upon us” [Ora me e bukur, eshte ora kur te th’rret atdheu] is Sali Berisha’s most famous and inspiring […]
October 8 the Movie: When DEI Had Its Day by Paula Weiss
A short while ago, a very liberal Jewish acquaintance of mine took me aside at a party and told me how she had had to drop most of her friends. […]
First They Came a poem by Jett Black, LCSW
First they came for those who spoke out against the covid vaccination. They wouldn’t let them travel overseas. They wouldn’t let small groups of them gather for Easter in open […]
Book of the Month: Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington
Review by Paula Weiss Image by Freepik We are not meat Legos I have been out-dystopianed. I was prepared to read a conventional screed against the impact of second-wave feminism […]
Luigi Mangione’s America by Mark Malvasi
The resort to violence has become the characteristic American response to a world that seems to many to lie beyond their control. Almost from the beginning, violence wrote itself into […]
Vance Takes the MAGA Message to Europe and Gets a Frosty Reception by David Shephard
European and American Elites Take Offense to Claim That Europe is a Weakling on Free Speech and Democracy. Vice President J.D. Vance went to Europe, specifically Germany, last week and […]
Mine, Baby, Mine by Paul Driessen
Western and Alaskan mineral exploration is key to American defense, security and resurgence. President Trump is determined to make America not just energy self-sufficient, but energy dominant. The USA already […]
President Donald J. Trump’s inaugural address, 20 January 2025
“Thank you. Thank you very much everybody. Well, thank you very, very much. Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, justices of the United States Supreme Court, […]
Cowboys and Indians: A Bad Look for MAGA by Paula Weiss
A Hindu family in New Jersey celebrates the festival of Janmashtami (from ISKCON of New Jersey, 2020, reprinted by Migration Policy Institute)
Book of the Month: The Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad
Review by Paula Weiss We’re not out of the woods yet, but we never are. When Donald Trump was re-elected in November, I was reading this book, and wondering whether […]
A Trump Victory is Not the End Point of a Populist Revolution by Daniel Jupp
Having been ill over the Christmas period my regular readers have experienced a bit of a gap in my articles here, for which I apologise. Four or five days can […]
A Conservatism of Place: My Neighborhood by Paula Weiss
“Your history lies beneath your feet.” A few years ago, my husband and I decided to finally pull up the broadloom carpet on our house’s main level. Imagine our pleasure […]
Daniel Penny and December 7th by Christine Flowers
There are no ex-Marines. My Uncle Louie, the Marine. Eighty-three years ago, our national innocence was shattered. Some might call it inertia, given the fact that the rest of the […]
Inference, AI, AGI, and Human Tears by Jeemes Akers
“This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. […]
The Rise and Fall of the Surveillance State by Doug Ross
Americans will demand accountability for the Censorship Industrial Complex In a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Mike Benz, a former US Department of State official and current […]
Directive 5240.01: A Threat to American Liberty by Jeff Clark (excerpts and link)
Summary: The Pentagon adopted, just a month and a half ago, (September 2024–ed.) a new directive in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election that authorizes military-intelligence agents to use […]
Book of the Month: Get Married by Brad Wilcox
Last night, we went to a restaurant and sat near a large extended Indian family of about 15, ranging from an elderly matriarch to a newborn handed from one doting […]
Who is Bryan Lozenski? by Tom Klingenstein
The Harris-Walz administration promises to destroy America from within. Walz’s most important education advisor, Brian Lozenski, said so explicitly on video. The centerpiece of Walz’s proposed education program is ethnic […]
Why They Hate Our Heroes by Daniel Jupp
A friend today recalled a series of reflections I first posted on a social media platform a few years ago, around the time that statues were being pulled down by […]
Defending civilization: the UNGA speech of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
The full text of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 27, 2024, as provided by the Prime Minister’s Office. “Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen, […]
Everything Always Hurts: a short story by Paula Weiss
The bus dropped me off in downtown Merionta, and even though I’d decided to splurge on a ride-share the rest of the way home, I wasn’t in a hurry. After […]
Moon Prisoner a short story by Paula Weiss
Warning: Possible spoiler for The Cage Above, the prequel in the Antifan Girlfriend series. Or not. Orlando, May 2052 As I lay there in the too-large hotel bed in Florida, […]
The Cluster B Revolution by Daniel Jupp
Look at reactions to Trump, Musk and Kamala and you can see that this is essentially about the personality disorders of the ruling class. In the Poe short story The […]
Barking Up the Wrong Crowd by Paula Weiss
If you’re Jewish, and you move in politically conservative Gentile circles, you will eventually get The Question. No, not why you don’t believe Jesus was the Messiah, why you haven’t […]
The Continuing Politicization of the Military by John A. Lucas
Under the Biden administration, the military continues its march toward woke political enlightenment. Insignia and patches on a soldier’s uniform used to serve the purpose of telling you something about […]
Hatred Comes in Many Colours: The Politics of Pride and Prejudice by Joseph Pearce
This essay was originally published in The Imaginative Conservative, September 2017. The illustration is “Nero’s Torches” by Henryk Siemiradzki (1882) and is in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Where […]
Book of the Month: “Ashli” by Jack Cashill
This relatively short, straightforward book fills a yawning gap in the J6 reportage. Who were the women? The dominant Deep State/media narrative is that white supremacist men, instigated by Donald […]
Over the Target: A Speech in Kansas by Paula Weiss
A month ago, a football player whose name I’d never heard before crashed into the ongoing culture wars when he gave a passionate commencement speech at a small Catholic college […]
The True Price of Globalism: Crime, Gangs, Violence and Squalor by Daniel Jupp
Why do globalists want this? Most of us have seen the tent cities of the homeless in supposedly wealthy cities and areas in the supposedly wealthy West. Go on YouTube […]
The (Frat) Boys Are Back by Kerri Pepoy
I noticed on social media that the phrase “frat boy summer” is becoming popular, and it made me think about why we suddenly see so many young men on college […]
When the Real Mass Killers Are Environmentalists by Paul Driessen
Radical leftists say oil companies are committing climate murder. They’re gaslighting voters and consumers. We’re constantly told fossil fuel use is causing an existential climate crisis, extreme weather, worsening wildfires, […]
Lawfare Is Too Kind a Word by Daniel Jupp
We have already accepted an unacceptable process Apr 25, 2024 I can’t recall the first time I heard the word ‘lawfare’, and I don’t know who came up with it. […]
Two American Caesars at the Rubicon by Ichabod
This might presage a future with glories of social-justice warfare. Since the founding of their republic, Americans have been fond of comparing it to the republic of ancient Rome. […]
Disorderly Fable: “Civil War” by Paula Weiss
As a reluctant prophet of a second US civil war, operating in the realm of fiction, I felt obligated to see Alex Garland’s “Civil War.” On the surface, it’s a […]
Books of the Month by Paula Weiss
“Mao’s America,” Xi Van Fleet, Center Street, 2023. “Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America,” Rebekah Koffler, Regnery, 2021. When was the last time we felt this threatened from […]
The Weakening of Democratic Support for Israel by Mike Ginsberg
The commentator Charles Krauthammer famously said that two things are necessary for Israel’s survival: the will of its people to live and the friendship of the United States. Six months […]
Escape Into Light a short story by Paula Weiss
It’s never been so easy to drive into the city. Traffic was backed up heading into New Jersey and freedom, but almost no one was heading into the city. Too […]
A.I: Sleepwalking Toward the Precipice by Jeemes Akers
It is rare that I read a single magazine article online that prompts a missive. By my own count, this is my eighth short article dealing with the topic […]
The Islamic Conquest of Britain by Daniel Jupp
The reality is increasingly difficult to hide Feb 24, 2024 In the history of betrayal that is immigration policy in Western nations for the last 70 years, the greatest crime […]
The Border Comes to My Post Office by Kerri Pepoy
Yesterday, at lunchtime, I went to the post office in Holland, Michigan. The post office isn’t far from my workplace and I needed to purchase stamps. I walked in and […]
Individualism and the Organic Society by Daniel Jupp
Most of us when we hear the word ‘organic’ today will first assume that we are listening to some ‘green’ diatribe on the kind of food we eat and the […]
Hamas Terrorism Isn’t ‘Self-Defense’ Against ‘Occupiers’ by Paul Driessen
CAIR leaders rant and indoctrinate. Hamas murders. Jew-hating mobs rage for genocide. Council on American Islamic Relations Los Angeles executive director Hussam Ayloush recently defended Hamas’s barbaric slaughter of 1,200 […]
Baphomet in Virginia by Paula Weiss
UPDATE: According to the DesMoines Register, Mr. Cassidy has been charged as of yesterday, January 30, with a “hate crime” under Iowa law, as “felony third decree criminal mischief.” A […]
Book of the Month: Fearful Breakers by Janice Sebring
Janice Sebring’s debut novel is in the finest tradition of historical fiction. Her memorable characters face challenges to which even modern readers can relate. The backdrop of 17th century Cuba […]
Why Did the Super-Rich Go Marxist? by Daniel Jupp
They had a common enemy-the average citizen. When I was growing up the divisions between communism and capitalism were pretty simple ones. And they seemed simple for one obvious reason-the […]
Chained in Plato’s Cave: Welcome to the Cinema of Grand Illusions by Jeemes Akers
“Welcome to the Grand Illusion Come on in and see what’s happening Pay the price, get your tickets for the show … But don’t be fooled by the […]
The Absolute Minimalist BOB and the Basic BOB, by Doug Irvin
The minimalist Bug Out Bag (BOB) is something you can chuck into your trunk and forget about until needed. It is for the family member who is resistant to the […]
Can’t Get Enough of Those Drones by Jeemes Akers
“Chinese drones are among the most sophisticated in the world and probably only slightly behind US military drones which are generally not available for sale. Given their proven […]
The Eyes Have It by Daniel Jupp
Media, Search Engines, and the Power of a Gaze When we talk about the media we often do so in ways that don’t acknowledge the technological changes modern society has […]
Book of the Month: Prawnocuos Rising
Jeemes Akers, retired CIA analyst, businessman, lawyer, and former professor, brings you his first novel, which he describes as a “Christian techno-thriller” set in the not very distant future. It’s […]
The Importance of Disobedience by Janice Sebring
In 2020, governments around the world began locking down their populations in an effort to prevent the spread of a respiratory virus. Citizens complied initially, eager to do what they […]
China’s Achilles Heel by Jeemes Akers
“If there is to be a war [between China and the United States], it will not arise from Western outrage at human rights violations in Xinjiang, or Chinese […]
Retreat, Revolution or Conversion? by Daniel Jupp
What’s our basic tactic when the world is ruled by our enemies? Reprinted with permission from Mr. Jupp. Find more of his work on his Substack column, Jupplandia. https://jupplandia.substack.com/p/welcome-to-jupplandia First, […]
Interested in Homeschooling by Hilary Collins
A neighbor recently asked for guidance on homeschooling. I responded to the family with some information and thought I’d share it with you all as well! As background, I grew […]
PAULA WEISS ANSWERS QUESTIONS
(PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS VIA [email protected]) These are questions I am asked at book fairs and by readers and friends: Q. Do you think we really will have a civil […]
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