Saturday “More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States.” Thomas Sowell An estimated 1.3 million whites were kidnapped from coastal towns (as far … [Read more...]
Real Estate and Tax
Sunday There are times when huge fortunes have been made in real estate. Family names have become legendary because of the prescience of a forebear in buying real estate at the right time. But that time is not now. As we approach the necessary denouement of the Great Fiat Fantasy, so governments will fight tooth and nail to hang on to the illusion that the debt-based … [Read more...]
The Urge to Conform
Thursday The urge to conform is not, in one sense, strange or misguided. The 19th century was the peak of Western Civilization. It was an age when men strived for reason; when individual rights, including the right to speak and write freely, were sacrosanct. To hold tenaciously to those values was the mark of decency and the foundation of society – a community of shared … [Read more...]