American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot
A long piece in the New York Times about American energy policy. The speed at which gas prices are climbing is forcing a seismic change […]
Where We’re At
Kunstler’s latest blog entry: Every time I saw a car towing a motorboat this holiday weekend, I wondered what was going through the head of […]
Is global shipping slowing drastically?
Via Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. International trade is slowing down as fuel prices raise shipping costs. More here on a general slowdown of transportation in the UK.
Wal-Mart Going Local
Higher transportation costs are forcing Wal-Mart into the locally grown food business. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Wal-Mart stores in Arizona now stock Grand Canyon […]
Reconstruction in South Carolina
An excerpt from Stephen Budiansky’s The Bloody Shirt concerning South Carolina during Reconstruction. As in Alabama, there were bloody insurrections against negro/carpetbagger rule in the […]
Most say Founding Fathers wouldn’t be impressed
A majority of Americans believe the Founding Fathers would be disappointed with the present version of the United States. This isn’t really surprising. Neither George Washington […]
Jared Taylor on Takimag
Jared Taylor has responded to Paul Gottfried and John Zmirak at Takimag. The long comment thread seems to have been deleted.
Domain Renewed
Occidental Dissent was down yesterday because I forgot to renew the domain. I thought it was on auto-renew with the hosting account. Apparently not. In […]
White Man’s State
An excerpt about the Bourbon Restoration in Alabama following Reconstruction: Following a campaign for ratification, the people voted. The Democrats gave formal recognition to the […]
What is Racism?
A post of mine from the SPLC’s Hatewatch blog: Mark, In your view, is it “racist” to believe in the existence of racial differences (as […]
The ’60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire
I predicted this would happen earlier this year. “Self-described liberals are most common within the ranks of those professors aged 50-64, who were teenagers or […]
Employers Cut Workers for a Sixth Month
62,000 jobs were lost last month. Inflation is at 4.1%. The softening job market has prompted millions of families to reduce their spending, further hurting […]
More Zmirak
This is amusing: My point is that it’s counterproductive to use such arguments– that it has socially toxic side effects, and WILL NOT WORK. Instead, […]
Friendship in a Post Carbon World
At Nature Bats Last, a discussion of friendship and the ramifications of Peak Oil. I also drifted out of contact with long time friends due to […]
White Nationalism and Patriotism in American History
At Taki Mag, Chris Roach attempts to bridge the gulf between White Nationalism and paleoconservatism with Catholic charity. He makes some remarks here that grabbed my attention: […]
Shoot Them!
Via Orcinus. Conservative talk radio show host Michael Reagan is advocating shooting 9/11 skeptics as traitors. That’s far more extreme than having the intellectual honesty […]
Dittoheads
$400 million dollars in the bank. No wonder Rush is such a loud cheerleader for capitalism.
Racialists Absorbing Paleos
John Zmirak fears a racialist takeover of the paleoconservative movement. There is probably something to this. Anyone can see the progressive racialization of the commentariat at TakiMag […]
Auto Sales Plunge
The full significance of the death of the personal automobile (and the airlines) is not parsed out here: Sales fell 28 percent at the Ford […]
Replying to Evan
Evan McLaren’s major objection to White Nationalism is the professional social pricing that comes along with supporting racialism. This is a valid criticism. It raises […]
Zmirak on White Nationalism
John Zmirak couldn’t resist jumping into the latest brush fire over at TakiMag about racialism. A few points: 1.) “I can’t improve on Gottfried’s analysis […]
The Greater Depression
The latest from Jim Kunstler: What’s happening is that American society is sliding into a greater depression than the one Grandma lived through. On the […]
Friedman Getting Scared
Flat earther Thomas Friedman is getting alarmed about the unfolding economic crisis: My fellow Americans: We are a country in debt and in decline — […]
Black Belt Ethanol
A few weeks ago, I explored the idea of planting sugar cane here in the Black Belt to produce bioethanol. This is getting some traction […]
The Decline of George W. Bush.
Even the evangelicals are dumping Bush at this point.
Whiteness in Alabama History
The 1819 Alabama state constitutional convention apportioned representation in the state legislature on a white population basis. In other words, the earliest Alabama constitution based […]
Drill, Drill, Drill
Jim Kunstler on the cornocopian idiot Larry Kudlow. Robert Reich has already pointed out that drilling off the coasts of California and Florida will not […]
Some Comments
For once, I agree with John Zmirak: it is the strength of our communities that makes the West worth fighting for, not our capacity to […]