Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

The Joker’s Razor

By Jim Goad In the wake of Friday morning’s bloodbath at a Colorado movie theater, America struggles to figure out who or what to blame. They’ve obviously ruled out the shooter. James Holmes, 24, will be arraigned in a Colorado courtroom this morning and charged with a spree killing […]

The Last Little Abortion Clinic in Mississippi

Another good ‘un from Goad… ___________ The hoarsely ululating throats of the “pro-life” and “pro-choice” movements screamed at each other outside a small abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi last week as a federal judge cock-blocked a state lawand allowed the clinic to stay open for now. The law […]

Remaking Marital Law

By Roderick Long Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, by Elizabeth Brake, Oxford University Press, 240 pp., $24.95. Opponents of same-sex marriage are quick to raise the specter of polygamy. If “everybody should have the right to marry,” Rick Santorum asked on the campaign trail earlier this […]

The Rise of Southern Nationalism

From the Missouri Tenth Any discussion concerning the natural rights of man in relation to state sovereignty, independence from tyranny,  self-determination, and de-centralization, certainly wouldn’t be complete without bringing awareness and understanding towards today’s important cause of Southern Nationalism. John P. George, a member of the League of […]

Islam’s Role in Slavery

From TakiMag: Jim Goad on the Trans-Saharan slave trade. ___________ While filling my car with gasoline possibly derived from Middle Eastern oil, I spotted a billboard for a local clothing store called US ARABIA. Though the sign’s head-swaddled male and female models appear to be Caucasian, palefaces are […]

Why Libertarians Should Oppose Conspiracy Theories

By Dan Bier and David Bier “Bilderberg conspiracies have become a handicap for the Liberty Movement,” says conservative commentator Jack Hunter in a recent article. “Bilderberg conspiracy theorists have become a political handicap. The Birthers probably have a few interesting points to make, but this doesn’t change the fact that […]

Living with Savages

By Gavin McInnes When libertarians, paleocons, neocons, and Republicans are confronted with a shrieking liberal they usually shoo it away. That’s easy if you don’t live in New York City, Berkeley, LA, or Madison, but those of us mired here in the jungles of hysteria have to come […]

Jimmy Carr is morally right

From The UK Libertarian. Davy, the UK Libertarian, hoists moralistic tax-happy statists on their own petard. Logical, potent, and apt, if emotionally-oversaturated at times. _________________ [WARNING: The following article contains images that some people may (and should) find disturbing. If you don’t want to see fairly graphic images […]

The Second Sexism: don’t judge a book by its press

From the New Statesman. Might be a worthy read for those interested in modern men’s issues. __________ By Ally Fog Anyone who has ever debated male-specific gender issues will probably have experienced an encounter like this: Bloke: “Yeah, but men can also be victims of violence and injustice, […]

Future of Freedom Foundation June 17, 2012

MIGRATION Are Immigration Laws Like Jim Crow? by David Bier Foundation for Economic Education WELFARE STATE Big Lies in Politics by Thomas Sowell LewRockwell.com MONETARY POLICY How the Euro Will End by Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. Cato Institute ECONOMICS Hayek on Individualism by Sheldon Richman Foundation for Economic […]

Dissident News Update June 17, 2012

CONGRESS MAY TURN OVER INTERNET REGULATION TO UN The US House of Representatives will vote on a measure this week as to whether or not they will hand over regulation of the internet to the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Other nations such as China, Russia, Brazil […]

Let Them Drink Coke

By Paul Gottfried New York Mayor Bloomberg has recommended that a 16-ounce limit be placed on the size of soft drinks sold at city restaurants, movie theaters, stadiums, and arenas. This seemed necessary because of an epidemic of obesity in his municipality, where over 50% of the residents are now judged to […]

An Echo, Not a Choice

By Paul Gottfried A recent syndicated column by Peggy Noonan makes useful observations, together with one rather questionable point. Noonan blithely assumes that while the president has “fully absorbed the general assumptions and sympathies of the political left,” his opponent Mitt Romney reflects “the general attitudes, assumptions and sympathies of […]

Geopolitics and “Conspiracy Theories”

Kerry Bolton is interviewed by Richard Spencer. The United Nations General Assembly Author Kerry Bolton joins Richard to discuss geopolitics and the intersection of global finance, war, and foreign policy. In particular, they examine the “conspiracy theories” regarding major events like the Second World War and the Cold […]

Bill C-304: Hate Speech Clause’s Repeal Gives White Supremacists Rare Moment Of Glee

From HuffPo Canada. Two-thirds—two-fucking-thirds—of this spin-piece’s audience voted in favour of censorship: tie-dye totalitarians! ______________ A Conservative private members’ bill that repeals part of Canada’s hate speech laws has passed the House of Commons with scant media attention, and even less commentary. But it’s being cheered by many […]

Vile! The Power of Taboo

By Andy Nowicki Vile: anagram is an energy In chronicling the ongoing anti-White, anti-male, anti-heteronormative ideological full-court-press of our judicial, media, and governmental overlords, it is all-too easy to find oneself flogged into a perpetual state of spluttering outrage, or thrust towards a inveterate inclination to indulge in […]

Julian Assange loses appeal against extradition

From the BBC. _____________ By Owen Bowcott Julian Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden at the supreme court. By a majority of five to two, the justices decided that a public prosecutor was “judicial authority” and that therefore his arrest warrant had been lawfully issued. […]

Taxing strip clubs for rape

Salon reports on the latest Stateside sin tax. ________________ By Tracy Clark-Flory It used to be that strip clubs were merely blamed for society’s ills. Now they’re actually being charged for it. In recent years, measures have been introduced in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois and, most recently, California […]

Fat, Broke and Single?

By Gavin McInnes Like the French language, the liberal brain works in reverse. Where we say “the red book,” the French say “le livre rouge.” They start with a blank book and work backwards to fill it in with rouge. Liberals start with, “All men are created equal” […]

“We’re White, We’re Male, and We Suck!”

By Jim Goad American culture reached Peak Beta last week as three privileged white-male pundits wrote essays declaring that privileged white males suck. Lifelong morbidly obese bitchy lesbian Roger Ebert apparently dismantled the presumably elaborate series of pulleys and harnesses that enable him to orally service his adiposely domineering, melanin-drenched wife in […]

Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban

From Buzzfeed.com An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned. The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, according […]

The Antietam of the Culture War

Note: Any serious anarchist and libertarian strategy needs to recognize that the culture wars are primarily a conflict with the upper middle class with the Left being the overall winner, and  with the rest of U.S. society divided on predictable socio-economic (i.e. class) lines. By Pat Buchanan It […]

Marriage: the Health of the State?

Thaddeus Russell makes his case. Not that I think homosexuals should have to fit anyone’s Ideal Procrustean Queer mould, but do they not signal their social conservatism to the degree that they embrace this ritual? __________________________ Back in the days when there was an identifiable counter-cultural movement in […]

Half Say View of Obama Not Affected by Gay Marriage Decision

Obama’s proclamation of support for same sex marriage solidified his support among Democrats, young people and college graduates. In general, Republicans, older people and less educated people responded unfavorably to the President. In comparison, the opinion of blacks remains relatively unchanged. The White House likely did not make […]

Rochdale, We Have a Problem!

The folks at Spiked weigh in on the Rochdale sex slavers. First, Brendan O’Neill… Indeed, it seems it is now virtually impossible to have a serious discussion about problematic cultural attitudes, because to do so would apparently offend minorities and, even worse, stir up the passions of the […]

The Derb is the Word…or is He?

From MRDA’s Inferno. Who would’ve thought such a mild-mannered, bourgeois Englishman could ignite such a fibre-optic firestorm? A few weekends back, all right-thinking Left-leaners united for a hyperextended Two Minutes Hate session against one John Derbyshire, a Brit expat and paleocon pundit who occupies a comfy niche amongst […]

Rick Santorum, I Hate Your Face

Article by Jim Goad. “For me, politics isn’t so much about what sort of society I want to live in as much as what sort of people I want to avoid. I consider myself a misanthropic individualist.” —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Rick Santorum has been the Republican primary season’s Surprise Moral […]