Burning with Shame

Last week, we were treated to the spectacle of yet another crazy weirdo setting himself on fire for his cause. In this particular case, the weirdo in question appears to have not had any specific political agenda aside from schizophrenia. Of course, I said “yet another,” because as you may remember, there was a previous wacko who immolated himself a few weeks ago. Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty member of the Air Force, set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC to protest Israeli treatment of the Palestinians. In that case, he very much was a proponent of a particular agenda. It’s just sad that that agenda has nothing to do with the good of the United States and her people.

What needs to be understood from the start is that Bushnell’s suicide was not an act of heroism. It was not a “self-sacrifice for a noble and worthy cause.” Indeed, it was an act of spiritual treason against the United States of America. An active-duty member of the military killing himself on behalf of a foreign people who are often actively hostile to our own nation, and who are certainly completely culturally incompatible with us? This is a very definition of madness.

Zartan Rides Again

When I was in the fourth grade, I was a cartoon connoisseur. He-Man, Voltron, Dungeons & Dragons, Inspector Gadget – I watched them all. But for me and my circle of friends, there was one classic ’80s cartoon that excelled them all, which was GI-Joe. For us, getting our after school GI Joe fix was serious business. Each episode would become the subject of deep, intellectual lunchroom discussion the next day. I watched this cartoon religiously; it was an act of pietistic devotion reflecting the same fervor as a branch covidian vaxxer getting her booster shot.

But there’s an odd twist to the story. The Joes were supposed to be the good guys, yet my friends and I always, ALWAYS, rooted for COBRA, even though we knew that every episode was going to end with yet another “save the day” moment for the real American heroes. We found this absolutely ridiculous. Even as nine-year-olds we could clue in to the stereotyped bathos of the Joe team, full of cookie cutter plastic personnel (and I’m not even talking about the action figures). Every Joe was a formulaic square jawed dude, with the occasional square-jawed broad thrown in for good measure. Plus, how could one Joe Skystriker shoot down dozens of COBRA Rattlers? Are you jivin’ me? COBRA was obviously at least a near-peer competitor to the United States in its own right. So GI Joe’s constant victories against overwhelming odds seemed pretty unbelievable in a world where an equivalent military power like the Soviet Union was being manhandled by a bunch of goatherders with AK-47s in Afghanistan (which would later be repeated for the US military).

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

By now, pretty much everyone who doesn’t live under a rock has heard about the attack by gunmen on the Crocus City Hall music venue in Moscow on March 22 in which 60 people were killed and over another 100 injured. The official narrative is that ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack. Of course, this seems plausible given that ISIS is thought by some to be an asset of various Western alphabet agencies. Then there are some who suggest that the Russian government itself orchestrated the attack to give itself an excuse to extend the reach of its operations in Ukraine. What we do seem to know (as of this writing, at least) is that several of the gunmen have been captured and that they were Tajiks that somebody recruited via social media, gave them money and weapons, and then told them that they’d be safe if they managed to get over the border into Ukraine.

Regardless of the origins and provenance of these attackers, the very fact of the attack itself reveals a couple of uncomfortable truths that many Americans and other Westerners need to be aware of.

The Tragicomedy of Will Stancil

It is one thing to hear about such a thing second hand, but quite another to witness somebody’s very public implosion in real time. Such has been the case with Will Stancil, a “policy researcher” (read: guy who generates the “data” that governments use to justify making our lives worse) whose only previous claim to fame was, well, I’m not actually sure he had one. Indeed, up until about three weeks ago, if you’d mentioned him to me, I’d have asked you what a “Will Stancil” even was.

But then….oh, but then.

Young Mr. Stancil decided he’d try his hand at crossing swords with Steve Sailer, a man who has keenly followed and become an expert at all matters related to human biodiversity over the past couple of decades. So what topic did Will decide to get feisty about? You guessed it. Predictably, it did not end well for him. But the really fun part started when Will absolutely refused to recognise this fact and doggedly plowed onward, digging himself into a pit from which he has still not climbed out.

Are You Ready for a Constitutional Crisis?

I’m sure that by now, we’re all aware of what is continuing to take place down in Texas. Far from backing down in his standoff with FedGov over the seizure of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass and subsequent expulsion of federal agents, Gov. Abbott has directed the state’s National Guard to continue interdicting illegal immigrants. Indeed, in response to the recent SCOTUS decision allowing the Feds to dismantle the razor wire Texas installed, they’ve simply installed more, in direct defiance of the wishes of the Regime. The Regime has now responded by giving Abbott and Texas an ultimatum – restore control of the park to the Federal government by the afternoon of January 26, or…well…something. Whether the governour ultimately continues to tell the Feds to get bent remains to be seen, but so far the trend is looking pretty good.

Of course, it helps that – for once – Republicans across the country have actually found a little courage to support doing what’s right. As of writing this, the Republican governours of 25 other states have all issued statements of support for Texas’ position. Hence, there are now an outright majority of states whose executives (who control their various National and State Guards) are publicly backing Texan efforts to secure our border. Many of these governours have explicitly cited the Biden administration’s continued abandonment of the federal government’s constitutional duty to protect the several states from invasion and the constitutional right of the states to act in their own defence as sovereign entities in their own right.

Ready for It to Get Spicy?

If you’ve been paying attention to the news this week, you’re aware that matters on our southern border have finally came to a head. The trend for years, decades really, has been for the federal government to turn a blind eye to massive numbers of illegal immigrants coming across our border, making a mockery out of enforcement of the relevant laws and overworking the understaffed border patrol. However, during Biden’s tenure, the Regime has taken things to a whole new level. They are not only not just “failing to do something” about our border situation, they are actively abetting illegal border crossers and the cartels who smuggle them in. Indeed, the current administration is encouraging illegal entry by “migrants” from all over the world.

This past week, Texas finally started to do something about it. The state was already being sued by FedGov for passing a law recently that directed state officials to start enforcing immigrations laws, with or without federal approval and assistance. Instead of backing down, Gov. Abbott has doubled down by seizing border property from the city of Eagle Pass in several areas where border crossings were actually being aided by federal officials (who help interlopers across and even removed barriers erected by the state). In the process, Texas police have kicked out border patrol and other federal officials and established direct control themselves.

Why We Don’t Trust Experts

By now surely every reader is aware of the recent scandal at Harvard involving former president Claudine Gay. In a plot twist which surprised absolutely no one, a deeper investigation into the background of this particular diversity hire turned up quite a bit of academic plagiarism in her past. Despite trying to use her diversity cred to resist the calls for her resignation, she eventually ended up being out of her administrative position, but only because of the anti-Israel angle of her earlier statements before Congress (which in no wise substantiates certain, ahem, recurring stereotypes…). However, we should note that she is not out of a job by any means. Indeed, she still retains her professorship at Harvard because of her tenure.

This is a microcosm of American academia today (as well as that in much of the rest of the world). The standard for everything from whose research to fund to who to promote to lucrative, high level administrative positions is not based on merit, but on membership in various approved constituencies of the progressive intersectionality alliance. When serious issues involving honesty and academic integrity do arise, the concern isn’t so much the error itself, but whether “right wing White men” can use it to undermine progressive priorities such as affirmative action and DIE initiatives. However, the cat’s out of the bag and the academic plagiarism scandal is now threatening to widen to academics at large, especially with billionaire Bill Ackman going after MIT using artificial intelligence-driven LLMs designed to root out falsifications.

Undaunted Courage — A Book Review

Within the hearts of those of us who love our people and our country, there is a pioneer and an explorer seeking an outlet. Which of us hasn’t dreamed of some new frontier to discover? Because of the circumstances of our nation’s history and geography, this drive has been central to the American character. It’s why we went west. It’s why we went to the moon. It’s why we talk of going to Mars. It’s why much of our fiction envisions the exploration of the stars. Even today, as we live our generally dull lives commuting to work, sitting behind a desk, and commuting home, pursuing our routine day in and day out, we dream of being able to go beyond the boundaries of civilized life and explore and subdue the wild unknown.

In his work Undaunted Courage, historian Stephen Ambrose tells us the story of a party of men led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who were able to live the dream.

There Is No Peaceful Solution

As most of us are surely aware by now, the fermenting demographic troubles in Ireland finally boiled over last week in a flurry of rioting. The proximate cause was an Algerian immigrant who went on a stabbing spree against a woman and several children (only the latest in a series of this type of thing by Ireland’s growing foreign-born population). The deeper cause, of course, is the systematic set of policies enacted by globalist, transnational, mostly foreign “elites” who have ruled Ireland for over a decade to the detriment of Ireland’s native population. These policies have methodically disadvantaged actual Irish people – economically, demographically, and legally – while perpetrating a type of anarchotyranny to the advantage of vast numbers of third world “migrants” who have brought in huge amounts of crime and corruption. So what we saw last week was an entirely logical response of righteous indignation against this state of affairs.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, the “Irish” government took away from this exactly the wrong message. Instead of recognising that a problem exists and brainstorming ways to fix it, the Regime’s Irish branch is already proposing a boatload of draconian restrictions designed to stifle dissent even further. Leo Varadkar, Maharashtra’s Ireland’s Prime Minister, is pledging “stronger hate speech laws.” The Powers That Be want to make it illegal for Irishmen to have memes on their phones. One Councillor, Azad Talukder (o’ the Wexford Talukders, to be shur’n), declared his desire to “shoot them in the head,” publicly expressing a sentiment that is assuredly held in private by most of Ireland’s foreign-born “leaders.” Ultimately, the reason they’re not brainstorming solutions to the problems mentioned above is because they don’t think of these things as problems. Indeed, their transnational masters have spent decades engineering this exact type of demographic destruction, not only in Ireland, but all over the Western world.

Why You Should Oppose Public Transportation

Ask most people on the broad Right what they think about public transportation and they’d probably tell you that they don’t like it. And it’s not just because of the smell and the gum stuck to the seats. Most of us, deep down inside, at least in some subconscious way, feel that mass public transportation is just a little bit communist.

After all, we on the Right like our freedom. Now at this point, some readers might be thinking, “Whoa Theophilus, aren’t you a monarchist?? Doesn’t that mean you want some kind of totalitarian state where all of our lives are regimented by some king??” Most definitely not, and the history of monarchy in the western world (at least), and especially the Anglo-Saxon world, ought to put that objection to rest. Strong and unitary government is certainly not the same thing as totalitarianism or arbitrary despotism. Indeed, political liberty in the sense of republican-democratic forms is not actually necessary for economic prosperity or social benevolence. In fact, democratic forms themselves can just as easily lend themselves to the totalisation of sociopolitical life as much as an oriental despotism would. There is absolutely no reason why right-wing systems of authority should be assumed to lend themselves to excessive social controls, and in most western experience with monarchy they actually have not. As long as you’re not a communist subversive or weirdo pervert of some kind, you’re pretty much going to be left alone to live as you like. If you’re the kind of person who is comfortable under a system that maintains right order, you’re most likely the kind of person who values your personal liberty and who will enjoy it largely unhindered. Part of that involves your freedom of movement, something which we on the Right have traditionally valued.