The Left Eats Another Progressive Champion
30 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
If I were a conservative Catholic bishop, I would think that God had just answered my prayers.
Planned Parenthood in Seattle recently fired a CEO who has been a hero of the reproductive health and rights sector for the last forty years. It’s not hard to find public examples of the Left eating our own to the detriment of real change (here, here, here, here). But when it comes to reproductive health and rights, this is one of the most stark examples of form over substance that I have witnessed. And given the expected evisceration of Roe v Wade, it couldn’t come at a worse time.
Chris Charbonneau was terminated abruptly under a cloud of implied racism after she accurately described, behind closed doors, a donor’s use of the “n-word” to characterize how women in Texas are being stripped of dignity and bodily autonomy with…
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All Or Nothing – Winter Offensive In The Carpathians I THE GREAT WAR Week 27
29 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Sunny Boys – ‘Alone With You’ on Countdown.
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Let Them Freeze: Wind & Solar Generators Couldn’t Care Less About Your Welfare
29 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
The wind and solar industries couldn’t care less whether you freeze to death when winter bites across the northern hemisphere and wind and solar output collapse.
Solar panels plastered in snow and ice produce nothing; wind turbines frozen solid during breathless, frigid weather produce even less (they actually consume power from the grid to run heating systems meant to prevent their internal workings suffering permanent damage).
So, if you’re sitting freezing in the dark, don’t expect wind and solar power generators to come to your rescue.
No, if the lights and power are on this winter, then you ought to raise a glass for the gas, coal and nuclear power generators separating you and your loved ones from a date with hypothermia and, ultimately, the morgue.
Hundreds died during the Big Freeze that hit Texas last winter, thanks to a complete collapse in wind and solar output. Thousands more would…
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The legacies of Rome
29 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
At the start of Mary Beard’s comprehensive but pedestrian history of ancient Rome she gives some examples of the ‘legacy’ of Rome as reasons why people should know more about ancient Rome and read her book. I critiqued her reasons for being arbitrary, superficial and not really justifying her case. Nonetheless it does broach an interesting subject: just what should be included in the Legacy of Ancient Rome to the present day? Over the week it took to read her book, I began to make a list of aspects of the legacy of Rome which live on in the modern world. Can you add any more to my list?
Roman Catholicism, the religion of power
Surely the biggest legacy is the Roman Catholic church, founded and spread across the eastern Mediterranean but given its definitive organisational and liturgical form after it was decriminalised by the Emperor Constantine in 313 and…
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