"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea." - John Nuveen

French Translation Published

FRENCH TRANSLATION PUBLISHED: Thanks to the 843@rien site for publishing a French translation of my essay Facing Racial Realities, and thanks also to the indefatigable Irmin Vinson for doing the translation.

"The opposite of noble is not poor, but vile." - Spengler

Art Gallery Restored

ART GALLERY RESTORED: After a too-long absence due to serious damage done by hackers, my art and photography gallery is now back online! Let me know if you experience any glitches or missing images. There are categories for paintings, sculpture, portraits, personal photographs, digital art, and more. It can be accessed using the ‘Art’ [...]

"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson

Outrageous Imprisonment

OUTRAGEOUS IMPRISONMENT: Two Britons — Simon Sheppard, a writer and behavioral scientist, and Stephen Whittle, a freelance writer and satirist — languished a year in American jails though they committed no crimes whatever under American law. They fled to the U.S. seeking asylum because they fell afoul of tyrannical anti-free-speech laws in Britain and [...]

"Women add zest to the unlicenced hours." - Allen Thomas

More War Rumblings

MORE WAR RUMBLINGS: It seems that the oligarchs of the so-called “West” (actually, Russia seems to stand for traditional Western values more than America or the EU does these days) not only want to conquer Iran, but to surround and intimidate Russia as well. According to South Ossetian political scientist Irina Kadzhaev, “Georgia’s war [...]

"If you sit by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by." - Taoist saying

Four Forces Pushing for War With Iran

Iran's President Ahmadinejad flashes a victory sign after being reëlected by a wide margin. Before the election, even Western opinion polls showed him winning two to one. What is the real source of the post-election chaos?

added commentary by Kevin Alfred Strom

ACCORDING TO physicist and writer James Miller, the four forces pushing for [...]

"The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again." - Sir Josiah Stamp, president of the Bank of England in the 1920s

Alternative Currency: Now a Crime?

A montage of Liberty Dollars, which may have been the most successful of all U.S. alternative currencies to date. Despite repeated Treasury assurances that their efforts were perfectly legal, the creators of this truly honest metal-backed money found themselves under arrest.

by Kevin Alfred Strom

I’VE MENTIONED ALTERNATIVE currencies — usually private efforts to [...]

"No label can do justice to the god within man." - Harold Arthur McNeill

Dangerous Morons

US navy sailors line up beneath the First Navy Jack flag during the USS Kitty Hawk Departure Ceremony, August 2008.

by Kevin Alfred Strom

PROOF WE ARE ruled and “protected” by dangerous morons can be found in this document, entitled “Crisis Controlled,” from the Virginia State Police (VSP), authored by Trooper John R. Wright.

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"Law is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant, a harpy that devours anything." - Jonathan Swift

The Four Freedoms?

THE FOUR FREEDOMS?: Corruption rules modern America. It is a truism, mentioned by Mike Gravel among many others, that both parties and their candidates take in considerable sums of money from hedge funds, oil companies, lawyers’ associations, and numerous multinational corporations — to say nothing of the Israel Lobby. But it’s nothing new.

A [...]

"I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind -- that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking." - H.L. Mencken

Free Speech and the Constitution

James Madison and the Constitution, portrayed in a sculpture at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia

by Kevin Alfred Strom

SOME PEOPLE — most notably lobbyists for the world’s wealthiest ethnic group — would like to see “speech codes,” which make it a punishable offense to criticize persons who belong to certain “protected classes,” [...]

"I think racial mixing is undesirable in this country and could be catastrophic. Racial amalgamation would mean a general lowering of the cultural and intellectual level of the American people." - Henry E. Garrett, President, American Psychological Association and Chair of Psychology, Columbia University

A Moral Dilemma

by Kevin Alfred Strom

WE ARE A SOCIAL species, and no man or woman lives utterly alone and disconnected from his or her fellows. But what do we do when the society we live in does wrong? When it goes so far wrong we find it absolutely morally repugnant? That’s the dilemma posed by a [...]