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The End Of Ideology

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2025/02/25

One of the great insights from Eric Hoffer was that ideologies do not require a positive agenda, but they must always have something they oppose. That is the point of his famous line, “Mass movements can rise and spread without … Continue reading →

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The Game of Chicken

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2025/02/24

Note: Behind the green door, there is a post about the blob, a post about big stupid trucks, and the Sunday podcast. Subscribe here or here. Last Wednesday was the kickoff of a show with Paul Ramsey, which you can … Continue reading →

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Radio Derb February 21 2025

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2025/02/22

This Week’s Show Contents 03m05s Snobs & Slobs, Euro style 10m11s Trump trashes Ukraine 15m12s The mystery of South Africa 21m29s Don’t look up 28m31s Scatter the feds! 31m16s Fort Knox, wha? 34m30s Return of Butch & Suni 36m16s World … Continue reading →

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Mokita

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2025/02/21

In every human organization there are things that are true but for one reason or another, everyone agrees to ignore them. It may be that these things are just annoying, like the personal ticks of the boss. In other cases, … Continue reading →

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Old Think New Think

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2025/02/20

One of the new features of life since Trump came back to town is that things move quickly and if you are not careful, they will move without you. Ten thousand USAID employees learned this in week one. One day … Continue reading →

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The New Deal Bookend

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2025/02/19

The assault on the Blob has taken up most of the attention in Washington, along with the reproachment with Russia, but the biggest item on the Trump agenda is the restructuring of the American economy. If you listen to what … Continue reading →

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Radio Derb February 17 2025

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2025/02/14

This Week’s Show Contents 02m53s Healthcare gets a new boss 03m49s Healthcare horror Down Under 05m33s Immigration enforcement gets real 09m55s Why are politicians so rich? 13m05s Healthcare:a history 26m43s Signoff with a medical melody Direct Download, The iTunes, Podcast … Continue reading →

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The Drug War Rabbit Hole

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2025/02/14

One of the consequences of the unfolding revelations in Washington is that we must reexamine the past in light of this new data. We now know that the political process was captured by the Blob and used to serve the … Continue reading →

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The Universe Smiles

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2025/02/13

Tomorrow the Trump team arrives in Germany to participate in the Munich Security Conference, where they are expected to inform the Europeans of their plans to bring Project Ukraine to an end. No one knows what Trump is planning, but … Continue reading →

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Prudentialism

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2025/02/12

One of the many interesting aspects of the Trump era has been the collapse of what was called conservatism in America and the rise of a new coalition to replace it as the dominant force in the Republican Party. Most … Continue reading →

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The Return Of Chesterton’s Fence

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2025/02/11

One of the things lost in the excitement of the first month of the Trump administration is the pending reform of the FBI. When Kash Patel was grilled by the Senate, he repeatedly made clear that reforming the agency was … Continue reading →

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The Great Reckoning

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2025/02/10

Note: Behind the green door, there is a post about the importance of enjoying the moment, a post on urban dependency culture, a video from my creek and the Sunday podcast. Subscribe here or here. As expected, the lawsuits are … Continue reading →

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Radio Derb February 07 2025

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2025/02/07

This Week’s Show Contents 01m34s Trump the libertarian? 05m54s Horsegirl Sam 13m37s Zero-based government 18m56s Levantines and Slavs 27m40s Small win for Brunswick Three 30m45s End public-sector employee lobbies! 32m26s Indecisive on lobsters 34m39s License plate humor 36m26s Signoff with … Continue reading →

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The Blob

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2025/02/07

As I was recording the show, news broke that one of the DOGE kids was doxed by an Antifa working for the Wall Street Journal. This is a bit ironic in that the crux of the USAID scandal is the … Continue reading →

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Here Comes The Sun

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2025/02/06

One of the things that is becoming clear to everyone as the USAID scandal unfolds is that much of what has been presented to us over the last several decades, as far as politics, has been an illusion created by … Continue reading →

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The End Of Minoritarianism

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2025/02/05

One of the side issues with regards to the USAID scandal is the fact that it was part of a system that has dominated the world since the Cold War. During the Cold War, this same system came to dominate … Continue reading →

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The Blob War

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2025/02/04

The most surprising and most consequential event of the President Trump sequel has been the USAID scandal. No one thought that part of his revenge tour would be a direct assault on one of the main centers of the foreign … Continue reading →

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The Destroyer Of Worlds

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2025/02/03

Note: Behind the green door, there is a post about the practical impact of what is called AI, a post about how I encountered Old Scratch in West Virginia, a video from my back porch and the Sunday podcast. Subscribe … Continue reading →

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Radio Derb January 31 2025

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2025/02/01

This Week’s Show Contents 01m37s The smack of firm government (cont.) 05m13s Déjà vu all over again 09m13s The ratchet effect? 16m43s Diversity catastrophe? 20m03s A science geek, not a law geek, for HHS 28m57s Work for Trump, Bukele, and … Continue reading →

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The Orangemailers

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2025/01/31

A bit of a weird show this week. The post on Wednesday got me thinking about how I would explain to someone what I think is happening in Washington. That post relied on people understanding a lot of things that … Continue reading →

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