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Radio Derb March 21 2025

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2025/03/22

This Week’s Show Contents 02m19s Foreigners behaving badly 09m28s Our anti-Trump judiciary 17m36s The shock troops of lawfare 25m38s Separation of powers 2025 34m02s The genocidal St. Patrick 36m01s YouTube kowtowing? 38m05s TDS and MIM 39m40s Signoff with Gracie Direct … Continue reading →

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Buckley On Sobran

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2025/03/21

Joe Sobran is arguably the first person hurled into the void in a process that eventually was called cancel culture. His primary sins were skepticism about Israel as our greatest ally and suspicions about the motivations of the neocons. It … Continue reading →

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Fading Pop

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2025/03/20

If you look at the pop music charts for the last decade or so, one of the things you will not notice is the modern nature of the big bands. The reason you will not notice how bands have changed … Continue reading →

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Robed Radicals

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2025/03/19

One way to look at the last ten years is as the struggle of the United States to finally close the books on the Cold War and the 20th century. The reason Trump exists, and the managerial system has reacted … Continue reading →

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Attritional Drone War

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2025/03/18

Prior to the start of the Ukraine war, it was assumed that the Russians, if they desired, could quickly smash the Ukrainian army. Russia is a big country with a big army and Ukraine is not as big, but few … Continue reading →

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The Ideology Of Ressentiment

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2025/03/17

Note #1: Last Wednesday was the fourth edition of a show I am doing with Paul Ramsey every Wednesday at 8:00 PM which you can watch live on Rumble and YouTube and, of course, watch at your leisure after the … Continue reading →

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Radio Derb March 14 2025

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2025/03/15

This Week’s Show Contents 01m04s Ireland’s new troubles 16m39s Something to dress up for 27m51s Free Puerto Rico! 31m05s Vance socks it to them 32m13s Too many foreign students? 32m27s Too woke for Disney! 36m11s Signoff: As Irish as it … Continue reading →

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Trumponomics

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2025/03/14

Lost in all the howling about DOGE, the rogue judges and the Ukraine happenings is the Trump economic policy that is slowly coming into focus. One of the reasons the administration pushed for the continuing resolution was that they needed … Continue reading →

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Was Reagan Great?

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2025/03/13

Note: Last night Paul Ramsey and I did a livestream on Reagan, so it is a good companion to this post. YouTube or Rumble. If you were alive and following politics in the middle of the 1980’s, one of your … Continue reading →

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A Time For Choosing

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2025/03/12

There is an old joke about the topic of free will that goes something like, “If free will did not exist, we would have no choice but to invent it.” In addition to the obvious contradiction lies the fact that … Continue reading →

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Radio Derb March 07 2025

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2025/03/08

This Week’s Show Contents 00m54s Movies: the long farewell 07m05s Spellbound and swallowed 15m28s Trump’s address to Congress 24m55s Trump-Zelensky style clash 26m49s Help the Brunswick Three! 28m21s The Brits catch “disparate impact” 31m03s Romania should know 33m41s Signoff: It … Continue reading →

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Foreign Policy Realism

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2025/03/07

One of the interesting things about the shift in foreign policy initiated by the Trump administration is that it is a break from what has been policy for a century. This sudden lurch into realism is a departure from Wilsonian … Continue reading →

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The Death Of Hollywood

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2025/03/06

Show Announcement: Last night was the third episode of the award winning livestream that you can watch on Rumble and YouTube. The Academy Awards show was this week and outside of the bugmen on YouTube, there was not much interest … Continue reading →

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The Blanche DuBois Problem

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2025/03/05

Show Announcement: Tonight at 8:00 PM eastern, Paul Ramsey and I will be discussing communists and the best way to execute them. You can tune in live on YouTube and on Rumble. Over the last thirty years, many people have … Continue reading →

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The Ghost Of The People’s Party

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2025/03/04

Note #3: Since we are getting signs of spring, it means it will not be long before it is hot, which means t-shirt weather. Just in time for t-shirt season, we have a new shirt for The Occidental Club, which … Continue reading →

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The Zelensky Problem

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2025/03/03

Note #1: Last Wednesday was the second edition of a show I am doing with Paul Ramsey every Wednesday at 8:00 which you can watch live on Rumble and YouTube and, of course, watch at your leisure after the fact. … Continue reading →

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Radio Derb February 28 2025

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2025/03/01

This Week’s Show Contents 02m27s CPAC report 06m56s Dems in the doldrums 13m57s Immigration innovation: the Registry 20m40s Immigration innovation: the Gold Card 28m15s Trump 47’s first cabinet meeting 29m57s Hegseth’s Friday night purge 33m13s Ramaswamy for Ohio 34m23s James … Continue reading →

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Populism

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2025/02/28

On the show Wednesday with Paul Ramsey, we talked about how Trump is a bookend for Nixon containing the period of peak managerialism. The managers ran Nixon out of town for the crime of being a strong executive and now … Continue reading →

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The Long Way Home

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2025/02/27

One of the many failings of conservatism was the insistence that with just the right argument using just the right data points, the people they called the left would throw down their weapons and embrace them as brothers. At the … Continue reading →

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The Escapists

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2025/02/26

An iron law of the universe is the opposite law of liberalism, which states that whatever the left is saying, assume the opposite and you will get close to the truth. It is not a perfect rule in that the opposite … Continue reading →

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