Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Julian Assange Defiant After Swedes Drop Investigation: ‘The war has just begun’

Julian Assange has declared that “the proper war is just commencing” after Swedish prosecutors unexpectedly dropped their investigation into an allegation of rape against him, ending a torturous seven-year extradition battle that nevertheless leaves significant question marks over his future. The 45-year-old WikiLeaks founder appeared on the balcony […]

Global Warming Swindle

By Thomas Sowell Townhall.Com Britain’s Channel 4 has produced a devastating documentary titled “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” It has apparently not been broadcast by any of the networks in the United States. But, fortunately, it is available on the Internet. Distinguished scientists specializing in climate and climate-related […]

Funding the Enemy: War and Welfare

From March last year: Ann Sterzinger’s libertarian solution to the Islamist problem. The welfare state is a gravy train for ISIS. If the welfare state doesn’t end in Europe, the welfare state will end Europe. And future historians will look back on the way the West ended and […]

Bizarro World is Here

From Andy Nowicki: Gender traditionalists are wildly cheering a woman standing up to male chauvinists. Feminists are harrumphing over this gesture and defending social customs that require women to be submissive to men… In other news, conservatives are angry with the CIA and view the American deep state […]

Climate change: Fact or fiction?

Some scientists say the earth’s climate changes constantly and naturally, but the vast majority of them believe the current rise in global temperature is man-made, and could be catastrophic for the planet. But is all this but a case of extreme ‘climate alarmism’? Climate change sceptic Richard Lindzen […]

New Class War

A must read for anyone that wants to understand present day political, cultural, and class conflict. By Daniel McCarthy The American Conservative Michael Hogue Shock gave way to relief this summer as America’s political establishment—rattled by Donald Trump’s success in winning the Republican nomination—reassured itself of his inevitable […]

Thick Libertarians

This is a pretty good summary of why the libertarian movement has failed to provide a viable alternative in the U.S., i.e. it’s just a microcosm representation of the wider established paradigm, and not an alternative paradigm. This author identifies 8 major libertarian factions, ranging from far left […]

Message from an Outraged Neocon

One of the most complimentary messages I have received in while. I must be doing something right. “I don’t know how someone could live their lives in the United States and end up with such a polluted view of our country. A country that’s not perfect but is […]

The Myth of Cosmopolitanism

By Ross Douthat New York Times NOW that populist rebellions are taking Britain out of the European Union and the Republican Party out of contention for the presidency, perhaps we should speak no more of left and right, liberals and conservatives. From now on the great political battles […]

Omar Mateen is an actor with an IMDb profile

This is getting weird. Truth Axis Omar Mateen, the suspected gunman behind the Orlando Pulse Nightclub massacre, appears to have an entry in the Internet Movie Database. The entry gives him credit for appearances in two movies. In 2012 he appeared as himself in The Big Fix, a […]