"We must blow up the King and his Parliament..." In 1604 four men, Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter,...
The ways we organize our world.
Frederick Albert Tilston, VC, 1990
On March 1st, 1945, he led "C" Company in a 500-yard attack across muddy terrain soaked by...
Deceived by Fraud, Insulted by Fiction
".... if the eyes of the spectators have sometimes been deceived by fraud, the understanding of...
The Bonfire Plot – Who Is Guy Fawkes?
Guy Fawkes: Also known as John Johnson,or as Guido Fawkes apprehended on Nov 5th 1605, under the...
Why Isn’t There Chaos When Traffic Lights Malfunction?
Sometimes the lights have to go out for us to really see the beautiful anarchy that surrounds us....
Dear Regressives: Crackdown Is Not an Effective Way to Deal with Dissent
Over the last several years, the far cultural authoritarian left – termed today as the regressive...
The World According to Peter Thiel
I recently finished Peter Thiel’s book Zero To One. As a whole, this work is an exercise in the type of thinking which, in Thiel’s view, leads to a successful start-up. Behind this, however, is the positive idea that we as individuals must create the future if there...
More Birds, Less Birds? Extinction or Expansion?
Billions of birds nest and raise their young in Canada and the majority are migratory. By 2010, bird species spending the entire year in Canada increased in population on average by 68% since 1970. On average, Canadian breeding bird populations declined by 12% between...
Lammas Day Celebrations,
We are baking bread for Lammas Day- Aug 1st, the festival of the wheat harvest, the first harvest festival of the year. In the medieval agricultural year, Lammas also marked the end of the hay harvest that had begun after Midsummer. At the end of hay-making a...
Global Food Security Act Leaves African Farmers in the Dirt
The American Congress recently passed the bipartisan Global Food Security Act, a $7 billion dollar project aimed at bolstering efforts to end hunger, malnutrition and poverty across the globe. Sounds noble, but this Act will most certainly not improve global food...
The Big Green job-killing machine
Environmentalists wield powerful Endangered Species Act to kill jobs, impoverish families by Ron Arnold The abuse of environmentalist power to hurt people never stops. “Another one gone,” began the Lost Coast Outpost’s report in late January. A.A. “Red”...