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Following the slew of brainteasers that have been sweeping the web, internet users are now being baffled by a new mind-boggling riddle. The puzzle involves working out the values of three symbols – a horse, a horseshoe, and a cowboy boot. It sounds simple enough, but the infuriatingly hard-to-grasp solution has foxed plenty of those trying to complete it. Can you get it right? This puzzle, which appeared on Facebook, has thousands of people stumped It’s already garnered over 500,000 comments and 13,500 shares since it was posted on Facebook. The puzzle consists of four questions, the first three have … Continue reading →

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Last week in Commentary, neocon publicist Noah Rothman brazenly or stupidly denied the obvious. Having learned that Hillary Clinton, in a speech before the American Foreign Legion, trotted out such phrases as “America the indispensable nation” and “American the exceptional nation,” Rothman attributes the belief that the Democratic candidate is a “closet neo-conservative” to the “hysterical left.” Rothman assails a nutcase Left for what may be self-evident to the rest of us: “It is in Clinton’s implicit admission that the next president must begin the work of repairing the damage done to geopolitical stability and American preeminence by Barack Obama that … Continue reading →

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I was very pleased to learn from Wolfgang Lieberknecht that the people of your two towns in central Germany, Treffurt, and Wanfried, will be marching together this week with an orchestra from Russia and a message of friendship in opposition to the new Cold War. I learned that your towns are seven kilometers apart but that until 1989 you were divided, one in East Germany, one in the West. It is wonderful to what an extent you have put that division behind you and made it part of known and regretted history. There is a piece of the Berlin wall … Continue reading →

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In his latest book, The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies, John R. Lott Jr. points shows that from 1950 to 2010, not one mass public shooting took place in an area where citizens could arm themselves in self-defense. In other words, gun-free zones or gun-restricted zones were the targets of choice. This flies in the face of the 21st-century gun control movement’s claims that gun-free zones do not endanger innocents. It exposes the fallacy of arguments that present attackers as uninterested parties who choose a target by chance, never taking into account whether that target contains people who can shoot … Continue reading →

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In Part One of this article, I made a fact-based case that most Americans are experiencing an economic depression on par with the Great Depression of the 1930’s. In Part Two I will compare and contrast two very different men who raised the spirits of the common man during difficult economic times. As we approach the perilous portion of this Fourth Turning, it will take more than hope to get us through to the other side. Cinderella Man Likening Braddock to Trump might seem far-fetched until you think about parallels between the economic conditions during the 1930’s and today, along with … Continue reading →

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At its height, the Portuguese empire spanned four continents, with territory everywhere from Rio de Janeiro to Macau. The first global empire, Portugal’s mastery of the seas began in earnest in the 1400s when the relatively small and isolated country sought to find new trade routes to Europe and the rest of the world. Its first major success came in 1488 when Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa. Ten years later, Vasco da Gama reached India. The ensuing centuries would witness Portuguese navigators establishing relations and trade with countries as far as Japan. By the middle … Continue reading →

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Like most readers of LRC I am well aware of the potential economic hurricane threatening the world (see, for example, Gerald Celente, Doug Casey, ). And more, there are also the real fears of growing social unrest including terrorism that I perceive first hand living in France (see, for example, Ron Paul). And the continuing failures of modern fascist medicine (see for example Dr. Brownstein, Dr. Mercola). It is important to contemplate, how bad can it get? Consider the history of my wife’s maternal grandmother. She was born in 1907 and lived until 73, with 6 children (including my mother-in-law) … Continue reading →

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The truth is we have more in common with people of different ethnicities and religions than we can possibly know in a totalitarian system drenched in the divisive propaganda of identity politics. Identity politics are the core of every totalitarian state. Identity politics were the beating heart of Nazism, and the core strategy of the USSR’s liquidation of kulaks and other groups identified as enemies of the state. Identity politics eliminate the potential for class consciousness that crosses ethnic and religious boundaries. As noted yesterday in Our Impoverished, Pathological Society, “race is not a significant determinant of social polarization in … Continue reading →

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Finland First became famous both nationally and internationally when 6th of July it held an anti-Islamization demonstration next to the biggest shopping center of Finland, Itis, in Eastern Helsinki. During the demonstration, a crowd of Muslims and leftists surrounded and abused Finland First supporters. One Somali woman even hit a female Finland First member in the head. The mainstream media refused to cover the incident. Total mainstream silence. On can be fairly certain that if the roles had been reversed, i.e. a Finn had hit a Somali woman in the head the mainstream media would have erupted in fury. The second … Continue reading →

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On Sept. 2, the FBI released a lengthy explanation of its investigation of Hillary Clinton and a summary of the evidence amassed against her. It also released a summary of Clinton’s July FBI interrogation. The interrogation was in some respects standard and in others very troubling. It was standard in that she was confronted with emails she had sent or received and was asked whether she recalled them, and her judgment about them was challenged. The FBI was looking for gross negligence in her behavior about securing state secrets. The failure to secure state secrets that have been entrusted to … Continue reading →

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“The problem with American conservatism is that it hates the left more than the state, loves the past more than liberty, feels a greater attachment to nationalism than to the idea of self-determination, believes brute force is the answer to all social problems and thinks it is better to impose truth rather than risk losing one’s soul to heresy. It has never understood the idea of freedom as a self-ordering principle of society. It has never seen the state as the enemy of what conservatives purport to favor. It has always looked to presidential power as the saving grace of … Continue reading →

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My new book will be published next Tuesday. Preorders for the e-Book version will be available in this space beginning later this week.As I previously indicated, the book is an exploration of how 30 years of Bubble Finance policies at the Fed, feckless interventions abroad and mushrooming Big government and debt at home have brought America to its current ruinous condition.In this context, it delves into the good and bad of the Trump campaign and platform, while, to use a spoiler alert, praising it with faint damn!As Contra Corner readers recognize the only consistent way forward for America at this late stage of the game is a return … Continue reading →

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