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A couple of years ago I happened to be reading the World War II memoirs of Sisley Huddleston, an American journalist living in France. Although long since forgotten, Huddleston had spent decades as one of our most prominent foreign correspondents, and dozens of his major articles had appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and Harpers, while he had authored some nineteen books.

It's said that people get the Government they deserve. This could be true of Ukrainians, who have elected one corrupt incompetent gang of rogues after another into the highest offices of the land. Or as a local sitcom asked 'why are all the honest people fools and all the clever ones crooks?', going on to ponder 'what kind of people are we that we keep voting mother-fucking liars knowing full well that they're all crooks?. Well they might ask because by any reasonable standard Ukraine is now a failed state. Читать дальше...

As Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee - led by Chairman Jerry Nadler - voted to hold AG William Barr in contempt on Wednesday, one Republican wasn't having it.

The author is an economist who served as assistant Treasury secretary in the Reagan administration, was associate editor at the Wall Street Journal, and is a former professor at Georgetown University. (Full bio).

Trump destroyed his chance at being a successful president by the stupid appointments he has made.  At the moment he is being set up by his national security advisor John Bolton and Israel for a war with Iran.

What are Russian S-300 air defense systems doing in the United States?

The Black Sea has long been a favorite vacation spot of Russian aristocrats. As Russia's middle class grew, more and more people have been able to travel to the shores of the Euxine Sea. 

Checkpoint Asia is an excellent news site by a former deputy editor of ours crucial to RI between 2014 and 2019. Best news and commentary ranging from Russia, to China, to Imperial misadventures in the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and with an anti-Empire bent.

Alexey Komov is a leading Russian Conservative Christian activist. See an extended interview with him here with rising conservative YouTube star, Dr. Steve Turley: Excellent Interview With Top Russian Christian Conservative Activist Alexey Komov (Dr. Steve Turley)

The following film, “Lessons of Standardization”, was created by Alexey Komov, Ambassador of the World Congress of Families to the U.N., and his colleagues, who together have been pioneering homeschooling in Russia, making use of tested home schooling methods in the U.S. A transcript of the video is included below.