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Mamdani should talk to Cubans about bodegas

Silvio Canto, Jr.
8/5/2026 5:00:00 AM
Mamdani should talk to Cubans about bodegas: Bodegas are capitalism at its finest, and they will survive long after Mamdanis grocery stores have empty shelves and angry taxpayers.Click to read:https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/08/mamdani-should-talk-to-cubans-about-bodegas/

1977: "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" by Andy Gibb was # 1 this week

Silvio Canto, Jr.
8/4/2026 11:00:00 PM

          Frankly, I thought that it was The Bee Gees when I heard "I just want to be your everything" on the radio.   Then the announcer said that it was Andy Gibb, the Bee Gees' little brother.    Andy Gibb had incredible success for a couple of years.   He has huge hits and sold millions of records on his own.    Unfortunately, he couldn't handle success and died very young in 1988.            P.S.  Check out my blog for posts, podcasts and videos.         

Resolving The Ceuta Crisis Was Cheap

K T Cat
8/4/2026 1:00:16 PM
 ... especially if you shove the cost on future generations.I know I've blogged this sentiment before, but watching the European and British leadership surrender to migrant invasions and then weather any and all electoral reckonings drives the point home again.Here's a scene from the recent invasion of Ceuta.  Un conocido que trabaja en el hospital de Ceuta me escribe esta noche. Me cuenta que en los alrededores del hospital han arrancado tuberas para ducharse en la calle, que el Gobierno ha prohibido a las fuerzas de seguridad guiar a los inmigrantes hacia la frontera para que se pic.twitter.com/CIx6ZXMmUL Martin Varsavsky (martinvars) August 2, 2026   Translated: An acquaintance who works at the Ceuta[...]

If You Won't Shoot, You Don't Have A Country

K T Cat
8/1/2026 4:14:17 AM
In an earlier post where we discussed the state of the Royal Navy, I asked this question.Is England still a country in any meaningful sense? It's an island nation with no appreciable navy. It cannot control its borders; boatloads of illegals come across the channel every day. It has no official language or religion any more. Sharia courts are springing up so it's not certain it really has a solid legal system.Now take a look at what happened this week in Ceuta, Spain.    Ceuta is a small outpost across the Med from Gibraltar. It is surrounded completely by Morocco. I've heard some Internet trolls say that the land is rightfully Moroccan, but the Spanish have held it for over 500 years, since the Reconquista. If that[...]

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[...]

Iran Suspected as Water Utility Cyberattacks Spread Across Seven States 

Leslie Eastman

The attacks are targeting internet-exposed industrial controllers.The post Iran Suspected as Water Utility Cyberattacks Spread Across Seven States first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Arson Suspect Arrested in Connection with Spokane Wildfire 

Leslie Eastman

Aaron Farinacci, 37, was previously convicted of manslaughter and aggravated assault in Arizona.The post Arson Suspect Arrested in Connection with Spokane Wildfire first appeared on Legal Insurrection.