Wigging Out Over Whigs and Tories

I felt like a fun historical post for this week. Here I go. Several months ago I came across a few positive references to Toryism and Radical Toryism from the Alt-South. Whoa. That was an attention getter. One faction of Southern Nationalists hold Tory sentiments, as explained by this article at Identity Dixie. But just …

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Twenty Years Ago Was Another World

Recently I was having a discussion with some relatives about how things used to be, not back in the Great Depression, but just twenty to thirty years ago when I was a child. America has changed dramatically in this time. My younger readers may not grasp how significant this recent change has been. I want …

A Trip To Historic Grouseland

  Last month, on my birthday, I took the day to visit the 1804 vintage Grouseland mansion in Vincennes, Indiana. While initially a small plantation, and the center of the fledgling Indiana territorial government, the lands have been mostly sold off. Today it stands next to Vincennes University property. me on the steps leading up …

Book Review: Fitzhugh’s “Cannibals All!”

  Today I would like to review George Fitzhugh’s classic 1856 work Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters. My copy is a 1988 paperback reprint by The Belknap Press of Harvard University, with a (1959 dated) left wing introduction by C. Vann Woodward, and is 261 pages long. Harvard only reprinted this book because they wished …

No Right to the Throne

  In this post I wish to make some theoretical arguments -from a Biblical, Kinist and traditional perspective- that Prince Harry has disqualified himself from any potential right to the British throne by his recent marriage. First, does the Bible command monarchy? I believe that one can make reasonable Bible based arguments both for and …

The Browning Hi-Power for TEOTWAWKI

  (Note: I first published this essay on my old blog PLN back in September 2017. As the original essay is no longer online, I decided to republish this lightly enhanced version of it here today). Of course, the phrase TEOTWAWKI is an acronym for The End Of The World As We Know It, and …

Thomas Jefferson, a Broken Cistern

  "For my people have committed evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water”.---Jeremiah 2:13 Those who have been reading me for some time have no doubt noticed that I have often quoted Thomas Jefferson. In fact, I believe that he …