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Pay no attention to what “tax me more” folks say – instead watch what they do
One way for an a wealthy person to get a lot of free media attention is to performatively declare that they should be paying more taxes. This ostentatious virtue-signalling is frequent enough that Tim...
View ArticleSoviet Berlin Offensive Begins – WW2 – Week 294B – April 16, 1945
World War Two Published 16 Apr 2024 The final Soviet assault on Berlin begins today. The Soviets have two million men supported by tens of thousands of guns, tanks, and aircraft. Opposite them stand...
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QotD: The intergenerational blame game
I believe it’s related to pensions, Medicare, and the whole Social Security scam. Boomers paid into these funds with the naive but innocent understanding that their money would be returned. Instead,...
View ArticleWhat to do if Romans Sack your City
toldinstone Published Jan 12, 2024 Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:34 Progress of a siege 1:55 Looting and violence 3:42 Recorded atrocities 4:45 Captives 5:27 BetterHelp 6:36 Surviving a Roman sack...
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“… the scary part of town, the place where the true freaks and degenerates...
John Psmith does his level best to make mathematics interesting to layfolk like you’n’me: In our end of year post I threatened to write more math reviews, and multiple people in the comments egged me...
View ArticleOn The Line with General Wayne Eyre, commander of the Canadian Armed Forces
The Line Published Apr 16, 2024 General Wayne Eyre served for decades in the Canadian Army, including as its commander, before being promoted to Chief of the Defence Staff in 2021. During his time as...
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Wagner’s Ring Cycle, summarized
I have to admit that aside from some amazing helicopter music, most of Wagner’s music isn’t my cup of tea drinking horn of mead. As a result, I didn’t know what the whole Ring Cycle was all about and...
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QotD: The “Greatest Generation”
Our parents had learned some wrong lessons from the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s. They learned to love government too well. They learned that government was what rescued you from depression and war. Our...
View ArticleBreakfast in Jane Austen’s England
Tasting History with Max Miller Published Jan 16, 2024 What you could tell about someone from their breakfast in Jane Austen’s England, and a recipe for Bath buns as she might have eaten them for her...
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Yet another unintended consequence of the Online Harms Act – easier...
In The Line, Kevin Wiener explains another of the hidden “gems” of the Trudeau government’s ill-considered and repressive Online Harms Act that at least will please a few anti-immigration activists:...
View ArticleThe Führerbunker – Hitler’s Grave
World War Two Published 18 Apr 2024 The man who once conquered Europe, Adolf Hitler, now cowers underground in the Führerbunker as bombs and artillery rain down on the ruins of the Reich. Today Sparty...
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Humza Yousuf, the “Thug King of Scotland”
I don’t know what Scotland did to deserve Humza Yousuf as their first minister, but it must have been really bad: Not what you were hoping for. Assuming he doesn’t get removed by a leadership coup...
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QotD: Cyber-addiction
Researchers at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry say the distractions of email and such extract a toll on intellectual performance as similar to that of marijuana. The study of 1,100...
View ArticleCape Esperance and the Japanese Evacuation of Guadalcanal
Forgotten Weapons Published Jan 12, 2024 Today we return to Guadalcanal, to the site of the last actions of the campaign. For the Japanese, the defeat at Edson’s Ridge (aka Bloody Ridge) forced a...
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“Identity quakes”
Andrew Doyle explains why some people cling to aspects of their worldview so tightly because to admit that they were mistaken would actually threaten their individual identity: Both Gosse’s memoir and...
View ArticleRussian and French Nazis Defend the Reich –ϟϟ Foreign Fighters Part 3
World War Two Published 19 Apr 2024 As the war turns ever more against Germany, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler keeps loosening the racial standards of his Waffen SS. More and more non-Germans fill...
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How much of your language do you have to destroy to avoid the taint of...
For understandable reasons, German governments since the end of World War 2 have been twitchy about any symbols, songs, words and phrases that were used by Hitler’s various fascist organizations … to...
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QotD: The “omni-spear” of the Mediterranean World
So I first want to suggest a set of basic characteristics for what I am going to term the “omni-spear“, the standard kind of iron-tipped one-handed thrusting spear that almost everyone fought with in...
View ArticleHow The Channel Tunnel Works
Practical Engineering Published Jan 16, 2024 Let’s dive into the engineering and construction of the Channel Tunnel on its 30th anniversary. It is a challenging endeavor to put any tunnel below the...
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Publius Rutilius Rufus, an honest man in a dishonest era
Lawrence W. Reed discusses the life and career of Publius Rutilius Rufus, Roman consul and historian, who suffered the revenge of corrupt tax farmers (publicani) after attempting to protect taxpayers...
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