October 2024
Dear Friend and Patriot,
The new October 2024 issue is online. You can read it
here.
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“The Last Supper,” a 1974 satirical poster depicting President Richard Nixon, his senior aides, and legislators on the eve of the Watergate cover-up trial, in the style of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous work. Nixon’s aides pictured on the president’s right-hand side, from left-to-right: John Dean, G. Gordon Liddy, John Mitchell, John Ehrlichman, Jeb Magruder, Bob Haldeman, Richard Nixon. (from the Gary Yanker collection, Library of Congress)
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During the Watergate show trial, the due process guarantees of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments were simply cast aside in an effort to destroy a president who was hated by the Washington “Deep State.”
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Officials of the U.S. Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, hold a rainbow umbrella and a banner celebrating “Pride Month” in front of a crosswalk in Vilnius painted in the colors of the rainbow flag.
(U.S. Embassy in Lithuania / via Facebook)
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American foreign policy holds woke social engineering as its objective to the detriment of the true national interest.
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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray hold a press conference on Sept. 4 in Washington, D.C. to discuss Russian interference in the U.S. 2024 election.
(Mark Schiefelbein / Associated Press)
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The Trump-Russia collusion play is hardly legitimate, but it is strategically savvy. Democrats have their reasons for playing this card once more.
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People watch the presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, at the Gipsy Las Vegas in Las Vegas. (John Locher/ Associated Press)
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The wild rhetoric of Harris and Trump in their epic debate-o-mania should be compared with a general ledger of political actions. Election '24 needs an accountant!
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photo of Joseph R. McCarthy from his 1944 Senate campaign (Wisconsin Historical Society)
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Joe McCarthy was perfectly justified in using his political position to pursue an investigation of Communist subversion. There was nothing sinister about fighting communism as an ideology or resisting Soviet imperialism.
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Short reviews of Phenomena: Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas by Giles Sparrow, and Charlotte's Web by E. B. White.
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Two activists hanging a banner across the street from the Department of State in protest of government inaction on climate change during a Major Emitters Forum meeting. (image from: Tim Aubry, Director of Visual Communication Greenpeace USA, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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'Terrorist Minds' illustrates a consistent blind spot on the part of terrorism scholars—left-wing terrorism.
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Durham Cathedral from Palace Green (image from: TSP, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Nicholas Orme has had the original idea of treating England's great cathedrals as a single class of cultural architecture, encapsulating the English religious imagination at its most expansive.
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Republican presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan displays a Winchester rifle during his visit to the Cross Roads of the West Gun Show in Phoenix, Ariz., Sunday, Feb. 25, 1996. (Associated Press / Eric Draper)
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John Ganz focuses on American cultural and political wars during the hectic year 1992, when two maverick candidates, Patrick J. Buchanan and H. Ross Perot, rocked the previously staid presidency of George H. W. Bush.
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Short reviews of Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen, and Adam and Eve after the Pill by Mary Eberstadt.
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Tyrese Gibson as Mercer in 1992.
(Lionsgate Films)
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The sheer incongruity of the deceased Ray Liotta appearing in a new release added a hint of fascination to this otherwise formulaic heist picture, produced by rap artist Snoop Dogg.
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High-ranking officials in the Biden administration worked with a transgender NGO to promote mutilating sex-change procedures for minors, according to a recent court-ordered document release.
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A “flying column” of the Irish War of Independence, Seán Hogan’s Third Tipperary Brigade (unknown author / via Wikimedia Commons)
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Mass third-world immigration threatens Irish identity and stretches social services to the breaking point. It remains to be seen whether Ireland will remain Irish.
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EU - Western Balkans Summit. The first-ever summit between EU and Western Balkan leaders at Italia Square in Tirana on December 6, 2022. (image from: European Union, 2024, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Western elites consider transgenderist ideology and mass immigration foundational to democracy, while in truth they are destructive of all things democratic.
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Armed Tren de Aragua gang members entering The Edge at Lowry in Aurora, CO and harassing residents (image from CBS Colorado, via YouTube)
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As Venezuelan gang members harass and pillage tenants in one Colorado city, the local authorities blame landlords. Anarcho-tyranny has come to Colorado.
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Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, State of Israel (image from: Chatham House, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Has Uncle Sam indeed signed a Faustian bargain with the Israelis? If so, who is Mephistopheles in the tale?
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