Roger Kimball, Biden Puts The ‘Total’ In Totalitarianism

Roger Kimball  America has come perilously close to the edge of the point of no return… Joe Biden certainly set the punditocracy abuzz with his neo-totalitarian performance piece at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday. The significance of that speech can be broken down into three parts, two of which have already received abundant commentary. The first has to do with the theater of the piece, its optics or stagecraft. As many commentators (myself included) noted, the feel of the event was distinctly, and distinctively, bombastic. The melodramatic red lighting, the presence…

Michael Snyder, A Nation Divided Shall Surely Fall

by Michael Snyder Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.  –John Adams   It is often said that a house divided will surely fall, and the same thing can now be said for the United States as a whole.  If there is anything that this election has made clear, it is the fact that there is little hope of healing the very deep divisions that exist in our country.  Most of those on the political left…

72 Types of Americans who are Considered “Potential Terrorists” In Official Government Documents

Mark Snyder [Editor’s note: Mark Snyder originally published this in 2013; but with Trump’s new Attorney General, William Barr, endorsing “red flag” laws to take the guns from persons who are reported to be “unstable” or “dangerous”, we need to review the sweeping categories of Americans who fall into one or another kind of case that the government has, in the past, viewed as “potential terrorists”. We cannot allow the government to take our guns.] Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner?  Are you opposed…