Battle of Britain

 

Get a Look

This is a great chance to get a look at some of the Nicholas Bate (a.k.a. The Man Who Never Sleeps) novels.

I finally realized what Nicholas was doing during those years when he was flying between London and the Far East.

He was writing.

Great Stuff from Western Civ

 

New Perspective: The First World War

 Rapid industrialization not only allowed for the support of massive armies, it also introduced advanced technologies and weapons systems to the battlefield in numbers that would have been unfathomable to commanders in any previous war. Prior to Pickett's Charge, at the Battle of Gettysburg, Lee tried to break the Union line with a mere 170 guns. In contrast, during World War I, it was not uncommon for attacks to be supported by 5,000 artillery pieces. At Waterloo, Wellington had fired less than 10,000 rounds of artillery ammunition. At the Somme, Haig fired almost two million shells in preparatory fires alone. When the war began, Allied councils feared they could never match the $70 million in gold reserves Germany had set aside and kept in Spandau Castle specifically to finance any future war. By 1915, the Allies were spending that amount every twelve hours during a big push, and every two days when the front was quiet.

- From Pershing by Jim Lacey

The Arts Without Nonsense

 Check out The Base.

As Boss Tweed once said, "What are you going to do about it?"

 California runs the nation’s largest welfare system, devoting more than $180 billion annually to food, health care, and other programs for the poor and downtrodden. To sustain the arrangement, the state imposes the nation’s highest tax rates.

In theory, these programs are supposed to help struggling Californians. In reality, many serve large numbers of illegal immigrants. Today, California oversees a shadow welfare system that allows noncitizens to receive health care, rental assistance, college grants, tax credits, low-cost car insurance, and even smartphones on the taxpayers’ dime.

- Christopher Rufo in City Journal, September 2026

Chad O. Jackson

 

Party Time

I have an affection for the strange people who see things differently than the usual "smart bunch."

That's why a party with Flannery O'Connor, Stefan Zweig, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, William Faulkner, Andre Gide, Ralph Ellison, Aldous Huxley, Agatha Christie, Mario Vargas Illosa, Graham Greene, J. R. R. Tolkien, William Golding, Ayn Rand, Mark Helprin, JK Rowling, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Raymond Chandler, Tom Wolfe, Jim Harrison, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack London, Charles Johnson, Zadie Smith, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vasily Grossman, Zora Neale Hurston, James Joyce, Ambrose Bierce, and Dorothy Parker might be a lot of fun.

Or a street fight.

[Photo by Myriam Zilles at Unsplash]

Classic

 

Comparing Britain to Florida

Alister Heath in The Telegraph: 

It will guarantee a shock to your system, and jolt you out of any residual complacency. It will simultaneously energise you and plunge you into depression. You will be blown away by the growth, the clatter of construction, the siege of cranes across the skyline, the massive cars, the energy, drive and ambition, the wealth, abundance and cheap energy, the entrepreneurial go-getting, the ostentatious celebration of success.

Read the rest of the story.

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