Category Archives: Worldview

How We Got Into the War with Russia

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

This is another post that refers you elsewhere, this time to the estimable James Howard Kunstler The Bad Faith Olympics – by James Howard Kunstler (substack.com)  I think his is as reasonable and succinct an explanation of how we fell … Continue reading →

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Cromulent

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

Yup, that word was used today in the lead article at Ace of Spades HQ (Ace of Spades HQ (mu.nu) in ‘The Morning Rant’ of 23 April by J.J. Sefton.  We are obliged to normalize-mainstream the term. It means good … Continue reading →

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Don’t Be a Climate Denier

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

Don’t let them label you a skeptic, either. That’s just another syntactical ploy to steer away from the truth of the matter. Be an accuser. Be a punisher. Climate alarm and carbon-blaming is a theft scheme, a fraud, a scam, … Continue reading →

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Ukraine Opinion Update

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

My relatively ignorant uninformed take: Darkening prospects for the survival of Ukraine. Slow, grinding, accelerating Russian progress all along the front. The Ukrainians have done amazingly well in slowing the advance. The Ukrainians have mounted a combination of competent coup … Continue reading →

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Israeli and World Geography

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

I offer this small geographic note to any among my legion of fans who might for whatever reason find themselves in a friendly, open, intellectual exchange regarding the country of Israel and its future. I ask that you begin your … Continue reading →

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Things Are Messed Up

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

A couple of news items drag me in today. One is the cargo ship hitting Key Bridge in Baltimore.  Not all details in yet, but already easy to compare to the Ukrainians (with our help I assume) trying time after … Continue reading →

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Journalist Schmernalist

Posted on March 25, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

The Epoch Times has an article about Steve Baker, journalist arrested for some trumped up somethingorother related to the Jan 6 not-an-insurrection. Steve Baker, on the Jan. 6 Front Lines and in the DOJ’s Crosshairs | The Epoch Times Worth … Continue reading →

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Foreign Forces

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Carlos Arenas

Todd Bensman (Center for Immigration Studies, Center for Immigration Studies (cis.org)  has an article out in Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College with which many of you are positively familiar. The title of Bensman’s article is “An Immigration Crisis Beyond … Continue reading →

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Tyrant Jewelry

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

My wife and I just finished binge-watching all of the miniseries The Man in the High Castle. We thought it entertaining and oddly relevant to the current political condition. I have thoughts. One is that I was irritated to see … Continue reading →

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The SOTU

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Holmes Oliver

Joe gave a speech last night and I thought he got through it pretty well, cognitively speaking. The speech writer is no Shakespeare, but even there we need to give some leeway since these things tend to be hierarchical checklists … Continue reading →

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