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America is Dead

America is dead. It was dead long before you were born and there is no resurrecting it. Its time on earth was splendid and fleeting, like a flower in the spring, but as autumn came and the weather shifted, the light faded and air grew cold, the sun set on a once promising experiment in self-government never to rise again. The new America is an empire; a wolf wearing the gutted fleece of a once strong and noble buck. A war took place in order to impose the will of the federal government not only over the states in the Confederacy, but on each and every one of the diverse and once proud states of the union. You can argue about the merits of the Civil War, but not over the effect. The Constitutional Republic was weakened, and the imperial control of Washington was instituted over the fledgling, subjugated republics. That was the when the coroner first called the time of expiry. And like any historical empire, immoral as they all are, we expanded; bases were erected in over 100 c...

Good Enough for You, But Not Me

As is typical for the humorless and joyless left, jokes fly way over their head. "It’s enough to eat a little less. You talk about environmental pollution. It’s enough to poop every other day. That will be better for the whole world." Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil, in a spectacular Brazilian jiujitsu turnaround , threw back the onus to the leftist environmental scare-mongers by offering some advice to those who would put the health of trees over the raising of a large proportion of his country out of poverty, a problem which has historically plagued Brazil. Roughly 26.5% of the population was living under the poverty line in 2017, according to the World Bank. Sure, it is perfectly reasonable to be concerned over rapid deforestation of this precious natural resource, most of which has occurred long before Bolsonaro had been in power, but for Western European powers to lecture the Brazilian President while at the same time feeding their ravenous appetite for Amazoni...