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K T Cat
10/12/2026 7:08:47 AM

... or: Musings On Theological Socialism.Sarah Hoyt gave an Instalanche to this X-extract blog post about the failure of the New Harmonie socialism experiment.Robert Owen paid around $150,000 for the town of Harmonie, Indiana. He got 20,000 acres, more than 160 buildings, working mills, and farms already producing food. He renamed it New Harmony. Close to a thousand people arrived in the first year.Owen already ran successful textile mills in New Lanark, Scotland, where he was famous for treating workers well and running a profitable business at the same time. He believed that if you removed private property and paid everyone equally, cooperation would naturally replace competition.In January 1826, William Maclure sailed a[...]

Papal Bookend

K T Cat
10/8/2026 9:41:29 AM
The riots in France are the perfect bookend for the Pope's visit. He shows up and gets the royal treatment, his courtiers enjoy themselves in magnificent cathedrals and then everything goes to pieces.Church leadership enjoys the praise for being so compassionate and then return to their comfy homes while the laity fight off the migrants we were told to welcome.  More footage of the riots in ParisAnd I dont believe for a second that this is just about schools anymore...Writer: Solhttps://t.co/UnJDbnuVEi Mario Nawfal (MarioNawfal) October 6, 2026  I've said it before and I'll say it again. Where the hell are our fighters?  icbkr Oilfield_Rando Agreed, but are any of them directly making the case for Catholicism[...]

Tear down that woke

Silvio Canto, Jr.
10/12/2026 5:48:18 AM

            Tear down that woke: Surrender is the word, and then they wonder why their streets look like they do or why so-called "students" are burning Paris.----------------------Let me give everyone some cautious advice. Save photos or magazine covers of Europe or what it used to be. Your kids and future grandchildren may need to see them to support those stories of the Europe that our ancestors came from.  Honestly, we may be down to photos or memories if current trends continue in what we used to call the old country.  It was through photos and memories that our parents told us about the pre-Castro Cuba they grew up in.  All they had were those black-and-white photos and[...]

1997: Hard to believe that John Denver was killed so many years ago

Silvio Canto, Jr.
10/12/2026 9:37:43 AM

              It's hard to believe but John Denver was killed in a plane crash on this day in 1997.       Where has the time gone?John Denver came up as a folk singer and composer.His big chance came in 1969 when Peter Paul & Mary recorded "Leaving on a jet plane".       Denver jumped on the opportunity and released a string hits of the 1970's, such as Take Me Home, Country Roads, Rocky Mountain High, Sunshine On My Shoulders, Annies Song, Back Home Again, Thank God Im A Country Boy, and Calypso.His unique sound created a following on Top 40, country and folk radio stations.            Denver faded a bit in the[...]

Why does America keep winning?

W.C. Varones
12/12/2025 8:48:00 AM

X:          Yes. But also, America's abundance of natural resources and history of fortuitous developments kinda seems like God shed His grace on thee.        Capitalism and divine providence are like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. 

Inflation is always and everywhere a progressive phenomenon

W.C. Varones
11/13/2025 9:31:17 AM
Excerpt from a text conversation with a young "democratic socialist":DS: Every time the US has become progressive, the right wing and the centrists said the policies were too unrealistic, but the civil rights movement still passed, and FDR is currently looked at as one of the best presidents of the past hundred yearsWC: Some times the right wing and the centrists are right. LBJ's Great Society has trapped millions in multigenerational welfare dependency. Obamacare has made health care unaffordable and is bankrupting both families and the US governmentLBJ's Great Society (and the Vietnam War) was what forced the US government to break the gold standard under Nixon, leading to all subsequent inflation crises. Inflation and all[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Nature Retracts Study Linking Atmospheric Thirst to 40% Greater Drought Severity 

Leslie Eastman

Shortly after the retraction, Nature published a new study that found just the opposite: Global drought shows no detectable recent acceleration under climate warming.The post Nature Retracts Study Linking Atmospheric Thirst to 40% Greater Drought Severity first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Americas Year of Diarrhea Now Features a Sexually Transmissible Superbug 

Leslie Eastman

Sex between men may now be the most significant mode of Shigella transmission.The post Americas Year of Diarrhea Now Features a Sexually Transmissible Superbug first appeared on Legal Insurrection.