“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” Winston Churchill One of my favorite movies set in World War II is “The Man Who Never Was” (1966) starring Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame. In 1942, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of the Atlantic Wall, a series of […]
“When an opponent declares ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already…. What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’” (Adolph Hitler, November 6, 1933.) […]
As a counterpoint to Edmund Burke and George Santayana, let me start with an admonition: Those destined to repeat history are first doomed to forget it. A while back I wrote an article warning of the insidious dangers of state propaganda, especially when augmented by the grinding mediocrities of a government school system, the steady […]
As the Neo-fascist government of Vladimir Putin amasses troops and armor along the Ukrainian border, his propaganda machine churns out a contradictory narrative that most in America would find risible. From the Moscow Times, quoting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: “We simply don’t have the right to exclude that the Kiev regime may embark on […]
The Noble Lie, where elites say something they know to be false but intend for the greater good, has a long history going back to the Ancient Greeks. Socrates argued that the Noble Lie advocated by Plato in his ‘Republic’ was completely appropriate. That was long before the Evangelical Christians of the 17th century (Puritans, […]
Last week, during some of the race-related protests, President Trump famously held up a Bible in one hand outside of an historic D.C. church that rioters had set afire. Actress Debra Messing (Will and Grace) then sent out a tweet, in which she showed Trump with the Bible and next to it she juxtaposed a […]
With Time magazine naming 16 year-old Greta Thunberg as their ‘Person of the Year,’ one has to wonder what that means in a world dominated by political correctness and Leftist ideology. Greta is an autistic Swedish child who has been programmed by her parents to promote a children’s crusade against climate change. Never mind that […]
“I have no light to illuminate the pathway of the future save that which falls over my shoulder from the past.” – Patrick Henry “JUST AN ACTOR.” That’s what they called President Reagan. But he didn’t just collect wisdom; he cultivated it. Not long before his birth’s centennial, the Reagan Library found a box containing […]
May 20, 2010 “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical: From all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the very first radical known to man, who rebelled against the establishment, and did it […]
A concise list of the Deep State villains might be the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission (TC). The TC by influence is the most effective one of the three. It has wrapped its tentacles around the globe. The TC roots go back to 1970 when Columbia University professor […]
