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America Descending / Ideas and Reflections
by Daren Jonescu · Published August 19, 2025 · Last modified August 20, 2025
Donald Trump began his second presidential term — Vanity Drain Unplugged, if you will — by gilding the Oval Office in a manner suggestive of a set for an off-Broadway show titled “Liberace: A Musical Fantasy!” He staged a Mussolini-esque military parade for which even most of his MAGA cult were too embarrassed to show up, an old pro-American habit of mind temporarily...
Welcome to yet another wonderful, reality-evading episode of Politically Correct Agenda Land. On today’s episode, Salman Rushdie, an author who has been under Islamic fatwa issued by the Iranian mullahs for over thirty years, who lived for a decade under constant police protection, and whose various associates around the world have been attacked, sometimes fatally, for their connections with him, is stabbed to...
The case for abortion that depends on denying any right to life to the human embryo, according to a limiting standard of what constitutes “true” human life, was always on shaky ground. Modern medical experience and practice seem to have nullified that limiting standard outright from an empirical point of view. Common sense, which is to say basic human logic, has always nullified...
Government vs. God / Ideas and Reflections
by Daren Jonescu · Published May 4, 2018 · Last modified May 6, 2018
I was raised Catholic, and therefore learned to regard capital punishment as immoral, on the Church’s “life is sacred” and “no human has the moral authority to take a life” grounds. Later, when I started thinking things through for myself — as opposed to rationalizing what I had been raised to believe — I became a fairly strong supporter of the death penalty,...
Jerry Adler of Yahoo News and the Huffington Post — two dutiful servants of the Communist Party USA’s subsidiary, the Democratic Party — grudgingly accepts that he, like all Americans, has the right to own a gun for sport and (though he personally finds this icky) self-defense against criminals. But he cannot abide the suggestion that he has the right to defend himself...
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