In the Interwar Era, the Western world greatly reduced its military spending.  The consequence of this frugality was World War II.  In particular Britain and France, by saving moderate-sized amounts of money in the 1920's and 1930's, lost millions of lives, far greater amounts of money than they had saved before the war, suffered devastation to ( Read more... )

As some people are now finding out, the Russians have just convicted the members of a (rather silly) politically-oriented feminist punk rock group, "Pussy Riot," and may sentence them to years in prison.  Their crime?  Carrying out a "punk prayer" against Putin the Poisoner at a Moscow cathedral.

It's no surprise that Putin would use any excuse to ( Read more... )

Some news items just make you want to laugh. Case in point:

Gil Rorien, "Arab Rage: Putin Recognized Jerusalem's Jewish Past," first published 06/28/2012,

Arab Muslims are enraged by remarks made by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kotel, recognizing Jerusalem's Jewish roots ( Read more... )

Courtesy of kellogs2066 in http://kelloggs2066.livejournal.com/607492.html#t3689732 referencing Shaun Waterman, "Russia threatens to strike NATO missile defense sites," The Washington Times Read more... )

In "It's A Dick Cheney World," American Thinker October 16th 2011

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/its_a_dick_cheney_world.html

James G. Wiles sums up exactly what about the thwarted Iranian attack seaks poorly of the effects of three years ( Read more... )

Visiting a local library's free bin (where the library lets you get some free books and magazines), I happened to find an issue of an old radical Left newsletter-style 'zine, named Z, from 1988. Intrigued, I picked it up and read some of the articles over lunch ( Read more... )

(Originally posted in October 2008).

I. PastDuring the 1920's and 1930's, two Powers were dramatically on the Outside of the multi-national political system that made up the League of Nations. These were Germany, which was under Versailles Treaty limitations for its role in starting the Great War; and the Soviet Union, within which festered the ( Read more... )

Continuing the analysis of Suicidalism and its effects on the West, begun in "Suicidalism" (earlier today, http://jordan179.livejournal.com/184945.html#cutid1Read more... )

From wombat_socho, I learned of "Suicidalism," on Armed and Dangerous (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=218 and "Gramiscian Damage" (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260), which outline some very important ideas. I'm referring here to the former essay, ( Read more... )

From "Did America betray us? Or was it just Obama?" by Michal Wisniewski, Sept 20th American Thinker (http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/did_america_betray_us_or_it_wa.html):

It was the worst thing that the American government could do. ( Read more... )