Monthly Archives: August 2007

First impressions of D.C.

OK, I’m settled in now sort of. I just began interning at Human Events magazine and just took a double decker bus tour of D.C. So what’s the first thing I noticed? The prices. So what’s the second? Some years … Continue reading

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Future posts and plans

Hi everybody. I’m off for Washington, D.C. where we Okies ship the front ends of horses for final assembly. What I’ll be doing there is a journalism internship for a few months, and I don’t know how much time I’ll … Continue reading

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Victor Davis Hanson, historian of war

CORRECTION: The quotes below are from The Peace Racket by Bruce Bawer http://www.brucebawer.com/ I followed the link provided and assumed it was another article of Dr. Hanson’s, in spite of the fact that Mr. Bawer’s name was at the top. … Continue reading

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Boyhood dreams – how I ran away from home and joined the smugglers

Note: a shorter version of this article appeared a few years back in Liberty magazine.Five and twenty poniesTrotting through the dark-Brandy for the Parson’“Baccy for the Clerk.Them that asks no questions isn’t told a lie-Watch the wall, my darling, while … Continue reading

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Self-Defense, the ethics politics and practicalities. Part 1

In my last post I wrote about martial arts, and pointed out that self-defense is only one of the reasons for studying them. But what about self-defense? I mentioned in my post ‘Virginia’ http://rantsand.blogspot.com/2007/04/virginia.html that self-defense involves firstly, a comittment … Continue reading

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My martial arts study – Pekiti Tirsia Kali

In this age of mass-produced cheap firearms martial artists are often asked, “What good is that stuff? Why don’t you just get a gun?” This is a fair question and deserves reasoned consideration. To begin with, it is often neither … Continue reading

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Your support for Dr. Atilla Yayla would be appreciated

As regular readers of my blog know, when I live abroad I hang out with dissidents and real freedom-fighters. (A fact which greatly contributes to my disgust with the posturing phonies one meets among self-styled “radicals” in the US.) Most … Continue reading

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