History
What Was a Kamikaze Really Like?
I was a, was a kamikaze pilot They gave me a plane, I couldn’t fly it home The Hoodoo Gurus The kamikaze have become the stuff of WWII legend: the fanaticism of these young Japanese suicide pilots and the terror they wreaked on ships’ crews who found themselves facing
How Trickles Can Turn into a Flood
George Ford Smith George Ford Smith is a former mainframe and PC programmer and technology instructor, the author of eight books including a novel about a renegade Fed chairman (Flight of the Barbarous Relic) and a nonfiction book on how money became an instrument of theft (The Jolly Roger Dollar)
Look At Them Rewriting the History
By October of 1974 Mott the Hoople had four hit albums in America and completed a very successful tour – including a week-long ‘residency’ at Madison Square Garden – where every concert was sold out. But it was taking a toll on Mott frontman, Ian Hunter: he was under enormous pressure
Can We Get Back to the Garden?
When misfortune strikes Ned Flanders, The Simpsons’ quintessential Charlie Church, he asks, in Job-like despair: why me, Lord? I’ve done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! Ned’s confusion is what awaits anyone who holds to the peculiar doctrine of Biblical literalism:
In Remembrance of a Hubris Past
I have been in Ashburton for the last few days. One of the strange things about Ashburton is the lack of election hoardings. I saw a mere one in the main street for the soon-to-be-MP National candidate, and another for the New Nation Party, but that is
The Slow Train to the Zombie Apocalypse
Harry Palmer Near the end of my secondary schooling in the late 1950s, my English teacher was Mr Dooley. He was apparently required to also teach what’s now called ‘civics’ – how politics worked, how to take out a mortgage to buy a house, etc – and he gave us a
A Tale of Two Treaties
Elizabeth Rata Elizabeth Rata is a professor of education at the University of Auckland. Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Commentary There are two versions of the Treaty of Waitangi. The first is the 1840 Treaty – the ‘Articles Treaty’. The second is what I call the ‘Principles
The Father of India’s Green Revolution
Vijay Raj Jayaraj Vijay Jayaraj is a research associate at the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, VA and a contributor to CFACT. He holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia, UK, and resides in India. cfact.org In Memoriam: Dr M.S. Swaminathan – The Visionary
Big Pharma’s Influence on Irish and British Schools
Gavin O’Reilly ronpaulinstitute.org On Thursday it was announced that the southern Irish state would roll out flu jabs to all schoolchildren under its jurisdiction, despite the fact that children are an age group at absolute minute risk of becoming seriously ill from seasonal illnesses such as flu and
A Pandemic of Lockdown Denialism
Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey A Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social
Poppa Piccolino from Sunny Italy
Harry Palmer The metaphorical walls of the Catholic Church have fallen after the debacle of Vatican II in the 1960s. Perverts and shysters now overrun its ruins and the Pope kicked the last few true believers in the cojones when he finally and ruthlessly banned the Latin Mass. Does Pope
A Hitler and Stalin Cheat Sheet
Axelheart What do Gen Z-ers know about Hitler? Nothing at all, it seems, if this article is anything to go by. And, safe to presume, then, they also have zero knowledge of Stalin. Incredible isn’t it, considering that these are two of the most notorious tyrants who ever
The Importance of Rupert Murdoch
Jeffrey Lord Jeffrey Lord is a Contributing Writer for NewsBusters. newsbusters.org The announcement that the News Corporation’s founding father Rupert Murdoch was transitioning to “chairman emeritus” status has opened the flood gates for both admirers and critics. ABC News, focusing on his influence in British media, headlined this:
Uncle Sam Needs You
Monica Hughes PhD Nomad, crusader, and biologist living in a world without authority. themariachiyears.substack.com That’s right folks! A military jet crashed and the government needs YOUR help finding it: You are too incompetent to own an AR-15, though. In other attention-span-of-a-gerbil-theater-
The First Pop Culture Sensation?
Boomers, as we all know, like to think they invented everything. Teenage sex (what, they never read Romeo and Juliet?), adolescent rebellion (ask Plato about that one), recreational drugs (the entire history of the human race is a saga of inventing new ways to get messed up), and rock’n’