Orwell famously remarked, “. . . the avoidance of reality is much the same everywhere and has much the same consequences. (sic) To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
See the UPDATE to this post below. As America moves into the Fourth of July weekend, with some locales celebrating Ramadan, Kwanzaa, Prideful Day or George Floyd’s…
The lights are going out on The Great White Way. Not the electric ones, but the creative lights. The early 20th century moniker — The Great White…
The featured photo is from the Ukrainian Lviv pogroms of 1941. Click on the link if you want to muddle through the confusing history of Slavic nationhood…
Paladin had a Eureka moment Saturday morning when Fox News ran a chyron graphic to the effect: Nearly 90% of Washington D.C’s gas stations are out of…
Instead of Saturday morning cartoons, Mrs. Paladin watches TV dramas as they provide a cushion of entertainment in a world of jagged edges. She never takes the…
“There were times when his nerve so forsook him that he began shouting for mercy even before the beating began, when the mere sight of a fist…
Our featured photo is from the National Socialist Nuremberg Rally of 1934. Paladin would post pictures of the National Socialist rallies and riots here in the United States…
With Apologies to Willie Nelson et all. To be sung to the tune of “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys” originally by Ed…
Gym Heroes. No, not the soldiers who clawed dirt under gunfire on the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc – the slope pictured above. Not them. How about…
Our featured cartoon—the Hurley-Burly Pot (1850)—is a witches’ brew that looks awfully familiar. The political cartoonist James S. Baillie seems to have it in for the Union…
Like every soon-to-be cancelled deplorable, like every VGirl reader, like every patriot and soon to be deprogrammed insurrectionist – Paladin watches the passing scene with horror and…
This is what happens when legitimate grievances against the abuses of state power are ridiculed, denied, and ignored. When those with the power to right a wrong…
Casting a jaundiced eye about the horror engulfing the Republic, Paladin’s brain burst with expletives, oaths, and curses at the legions of Quislings, toadies and Wormtongues now engaged…
I AM SARAH. Say it. Mean it. Repeat it. Repeat it to everyone you know. Whether they understand or not, whether they’ve read Sarah Chamberlain’s piece or…
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted…
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