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  • America Postmortem: Why This Independence Day Felt Different

    This Independence Day felt different; more like a memorial than a celebration. Here’s an in-depth look at why.

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  • Read Any Good Books Lately?

    We spend a lot of time looking at the symptoms of the decline of Western Civilization. Time to explore one of the causes.

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  • Little Green Men and National Socialism: Our Opportunity

    Thanks to decades of lies and silly distractions, no one trusts the government or their “journalists” to tell the truth. That works in our favor.

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  • Schnell Post: While you weren’t looking…

    A war here, a war there, a stumbling “leader”, a shooting, union strikes…. with all the distractions, it is not surprising that this slips under the radar: Some basic points from a different article, found here: Consider that last point. Let it rattle around a bit. Think how much money that is, and how much…

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  • Gettin’ Jiggy with Financial Planning

    Like most industries, the financial services industry has many trade specific publications, and I stumbled across this one recently. The financial services folks have found themselves in a bit of pickle recently: their vocal clientele want to pay lip-service to ESG/SRI/Woke-drivel, while the real money tends to back more traditional, less controversial voices- taking a…

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  • Schnell Post: Bury the lead

    It comes as no surprise that the American media is nothing more than a ideologically partisan entertainment industry. To be fair, it has been this way for a long time, and the idea of an “objective” press has always been something of a fallacy. Of course, everything gets better with practice, and over time the…

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  • Soviet Backwash

    backwash, n. 1) a condition, usually undesirable, that continues long after the event which caused it. Unified Theory of WTF, Part 1 First, apologies for missing a week of posts. I offer the usual excuses revolving around “life happens”. The other reason is probably relevant to you too: so much news, coming so quickly, that…

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  • The Elephant in the Room

    In 1814, Ivan Krylov (1769–1844), poet and fabulist, wrote a fable entitled “The Inquisitive Man”, which tells of a man who goes to a museum and notices all sorts of tiny things, but fails to notice an elephant.1 I thought it appropriate to reference a Russian author given our current news cycle. First, a disclaimer:…

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