Art is a lie that tells the truth. I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. ~ Picasso Prologue to Picasso: Psychotic or Iconic? On my Facebook page last week I poised a series of perhaps rhetorical questions regarding the Spanish-French painter, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). I asked: “Is Picasso a great artistic genius […]
The first battlefield is to rewrite history. Anyone who know anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. ~ Karl Marx Biography of Marx Karl Marx (5 May 1818–14 March 1883) was […]
“It’s a very delicate balancing act, because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.” ~ Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) There is another class of coloured people […]
Stephen the House Negro, expresses outrage to Calvin about Django riding a horse Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking revelatory, piercing questions. The Greeks called this […]
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races will almost certainly exterminate and replace, the savage races throughout the world. ~ Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871) Darwin and Eugenics (or racialist pseudo-science) Perhaps most people perhaps don’t realize that a large majority of Darwin’s evolution racism ideas […]
Original title of Darwin’s book on evolution showing his invidious racist intent (subtitle removed in 6th edition of 1872) It [evolution theory] is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts. ~ Darwin (letter to friend Asa Gray, June 1859) Biography of Darwin Charles Robert Darwin, (1809–1882) was […]
“Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention.”~ Hitler (circa 1915) Prologue to 20th century’s first Holocaust Recently I watched a very interesting yet disturbing documentary about the Armenian genocide where the Muslim Ottoman Turks shortly after taking […]
It is not down in any map; true places never are. There is a wisdom that is woe, but there is a woe that is madness. ~ Melville Biography of Melville Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American poet, novelist, writer of short stories, and a leading figure of the American Renaissance period. His most celebrated […]
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it. ~ Booker T. Washington (quote in my father’s office) Happy Resurrection day and Easter to all. This essay celebrates the 100th anniversary of the legendary Black American conservative intellectual, Booker T. Washington, who was born on April 5, 1856 and died […]
“The corruption, crime, and incompetence of the D.C. government has been an embarrassment to our nation’s capital for decades. It is long past time that Congress restored the honor and integrity of George Washington to the beautiful city which bears his name.” ~ Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), speaking on the BOWSER Act “It is […]
Fifth Circuit’s Ruling against “Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule” Safeguards Meritocracy Over Mediocrity
“The evidence presented by Nasdaq in its rule proposal, contrary to its claims, does not show that board diversity provides better returns for shareholders.” ~Excerpt from a Manhattan Institute led amicus curiae brief in the case of Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment vs. SEC. “We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the […]
The Keep Nine Amendment: A Permanent Solution to Threats of Court-Packing
“I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court. If anything would make the court appear more partisan, it would be that. So, I am not at all in favor of that solution. Nine seems to be a good number. It’s been that way for a […]
On Leo Tolstoy: war and peace or war and appeasement?
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness. ~ Leo Tolstoy –Biography of Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy […]
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