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Tom Piatak
3 years
We saw tonight why Barack Obama wanted to dismiss culture war issues as "phony." Far from being phony, they are the most important issues there are, because they define who we are. Once again, Pat Buchanan was right.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
Just saw the notice of Pat Buchanan retiring from his column. Pat's column was always a model of clarity, civility, courage, and conviction. It was a great gift to America and a great inspiration to me.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
The fraying of our supply chains is another reminder that Pat Buchanan has been pretty much right about, well, everything.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
My tribute to Pat Buchanan on his retirement. Few in politics could match his wit, intelligence, depth and breadth of knowledge. And could match his decency or his courage. We were lucky to have him:
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Tom Piatak
2 years
It turns out that "free trade" with China has been a disaster, impoverishing large sections of America and leaving the country as a whole weaker and poorer. Pat Buchanan is proven right, once again:
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Tom Piatak
2 years
@emeriticus But Putin could end the invasion today, with one phone call. No one else can do that.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
@DouglasKMurray Your attack on Pedro Gonzalez was ill-informed, illogical, and impertinent. American conservatives don't need foreigners lecturing us on how broad our movement should be or who should be acceptable to us.
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Tom Piatak
9 months
This is excellent! The more Donald Trump endeavors to follow Pat Buchanan, the better off all Americans will be.
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Gabe Guidarini
9 months
President Trump in Cedar Rapids yesterday: “You know there was a man, Pat Buchanan, a good guy, a conservative guy….” “Wow! Young people, they know him.”
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Tom Piatak
3 years
I favor admitting all the Afghan refugees that can be housed at George W. Bush's ranch, Barack Obama's mansions in D. C. and at Martha's Vineyard, and at whatever undisclosed location Dick Cheney currently calls home.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
Not one dime more for Jared, Ivanka, and all the other phonies. @emeriticus nails it.
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Pedro L. Gonzalez
2 years
Jared Kushner and his allies ruined the America First agenda while privately thumbing their noses at Trump’s base. These people formed the America First Policy Institute and are waiting to rejoin the White House for a second term. I spoke with an insider:
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Tom Piatak
1 year
Darn that Anglican deacon @calvinrobinson ! He keeps making me wish that the next Pope is named Calvin and wears an Afro!
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Fr Calvin Robinson
1 year
Regina Caeli, a seasonal treat: Joy to thee, O Queen of Heaven. Alleluia! He whom Thou wast meet to bear, Alleluia! As He promised hath arisen, Alleluia! Pour for us to God thy prayer. Alleluia! Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia. For the Lord is risen indeed, alleluia.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Pedro Gonzalez and Tucker Carlson have more wisdom, fortitude, and genuine concern for America and Americans than we have any right to expect at this point.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not seduce boys. You shall not commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not use potions. You shall not procure [an] abortion, nor destroy a newborn child. (Didache,A.D. 70)
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Russian ideology, mindlessly adopted by some ignorant American conservatives, insists that Ukraine is a phony country inhabited by a phony people. People don't fight, or die, or kill for phony countries. Yet Ukrainians seem to be doing all those things, in large numbers
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Tom Piatak
3 years
1). Jonathan Chait has an article on the War on Christmas. First he denies there is one. Then, it turns out, he approves of it: he describes how the suburban Detroit public school he attended went from celebrating Christmas to celebrating "holiday," and he says that's good.
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Tom Piatak
4 years
Amy Coney Barrett was not my first choice. But she's a good choice. And replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Barrett is infinitely preferable to squabbling over Barrett's imperfections and running the risk that Biden will fill the seat.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
@roddreher So it's wrong for the Left to unperson Joshua Katz but right for you and Alastair Roberts to unperson Thomas Achord? Got it.
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Tom Piatak
4 years
Ann Coulter is an astute observer of the American judiciary. She had John Roberts pegged from the beginning. I wish Donald Trump woumd heed her advice and at least consider nominating Miguel Estrada to the Supreme Court.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Douglas Murray is charging @emeriticus with "anti-Semitism" because he commented unfavorably on the appearance of two Jewish individuals. The fact that Pedro has commented unfavorably on the looks of numerous non-Jewish individuals goes unmentioned. A baseless libel, then.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
@Cernovich @emeriticus This is barbarous and indefensible.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
ONE:The Ukrainians have had enough success on the battlefield to prompt the Russians to offer to end the war by a return to the status quo ante bellum, albeit on a de jure basis.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
Austen Ivereigh has a piece in America praising Francis' ten-year pontificate for releasing the full power of the Church. Given the decline in Catholic practice in so many places over the past decade, one wonders if the man learned to write in North Korea. @RorateCaeli
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Tom Piatak
2 years
I persist in my strange belief that the person responsible for the war in Ukraine and all the attendant misery is the person who ordered the invasion.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
One of Three: The new Canadian anthem, inspired by Justin Trudeau: O, Canada, My jail and former land, Fear and servile love, from all thy sons demand. With trembling hearts we see thee rise, A GULAG cold and bleak.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
I do not think Russia has benevolent intentions toward its neighbors. I am appalled at the possibility of war between Americans and Russians for one simple, though entirely sufficient, reason: it would be a disaster for America and Americans:
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Today is the seventh anniversary of the death of an exemplary Christian, Jim Skerl. If you do not know his story, I encourage you to read this. If you do know his story, I encourage you to share this. We need more like him. Two Ways of Dying
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Forty years ago today, "Brideshead Revisited" premiered on British television. As a filmed adaptation of a book, it has never been surpassed, equalled, or, frankly, even approached.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Ladies and gentlemen: the so-called Dark Ages.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
@roddreher Thanks for this! The wider point is this: Pat Buchanan has been right about EVERY major issue facing America since the end of the Cold War. If had been elected president, America would be in much better shape than it is.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
@VDAREJamesK Mr. Chu is apparently from Broadview Heights, Ohio, a short walk from the suburban neighborhood where I grew up. An odd place to hang your hat if you extoll multiculturalism or dislike white Americans.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
@emeriticus Agree strongly that we should be trying to deescalate the situation and provide Putin with a face-saving way out.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Goodbye, Cleveland Indians. A perfectly honorable team name ditched to appease a tiny minority of malcontents. They may call the team "the Guardians" now, but who would want to be guarded by someone who acted like that? "Geldings" works better.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
SIX: America has been seriously harmed by our 30-year experiment in globalism. Fighting another war not related to any vital American interest might well prove fatal to our country.
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Tom Piatak
1 year
My tribute to Pat Buchanan on the occasion of his retirement from his column. Worth posting from time to time:
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Tom Piatak
1 year
@dianemontagna No problem: objectively speaking, the work is ugly as sin.
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Tom Piatak
4 years
Worth posting every time withdrawal from Afghanistan is under duscussion--until it happens. Bring the boys home. Replace them with neocon warmonger like David Frum, if necessary.
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Tom Piatak
8 months
The difference in numbers is striking, whatever its cause may be.
@RorateCaeli
Rorate Caeli
8 months
Benedict XVI’s last Urbi et Orbi, Christmas 2012 — Piazza filled to the brim, all the way to the Via della Conciliazione and beyond. Now Francis can’t get faithful to fill even the first half of the square… 11 years of nightmare and discouragement.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Do not give a dime to Bari Weiss, Douglas Murray, the proposed University of Austin, or any other phony conservative trying to part you from your hard-earned money.
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Pedro L. Gonzalez
3 years
But Murray was also working with Bari Weiss, a supposedly "anti-woke" lib who is never more vicious than against people to her right. Irony: the woman who tried to cancel me is starting a university as an "anti-cancel-culture academic project."
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Tom Piatak
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@davidharsanyi Pat Buchanan's criticism was always of specific individuals and specific policies. To suggest that Pat ever blamed "Jews", collectively, for anything, is a scurrilous lie. Also, he happens to have been right about the invasion of Iraq: it was a disaster.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
There has never been a ruling class like ours: simultaneously convinced of its crushing intellectual superiority, yet boundlessly ignorant of virtually everything.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Before Eric Zemmour, Before Tucker Carlson, there was Pat Buchanan. It's well and good that Rod Dreher is praising Zemmour. But, first, Dreher should apologize for slandering Buchanan.
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Tom Piatak
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@emeriticus Keep telling the truth, @emeriticus . Truth has never been a particular concern of Jonah Goldberg and Co. They are interested in protecting the powerful, bamboozling the rubes, and getting rich themselves.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
@emeriticus Brooke Rollins is as fervent a believer in America First as David French, Jonah Goldberg, or Kevin Williamson.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
Pope Francis has not never made any voting age diocesan bishop in Eastern Europe a Cardinal. The only group less favored by Francis than Eastern Europeans are American conservatives.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
@targaryven @emeriticus Putin's decision to invade was illegal, immoral, and reckless, and has not advanced Russian interests at all.
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Tom Piatak
4 years
@ColumbiaBugle @emeriticus A great speech. If only we had listened.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
@emeriticus is absolutely right. Sam Francis' "Revolution from the Middle" is the best introduction I know to the reality of American politics.
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Pedro L. Gonzalez
3 years
Hard to find a copy today but these are not only the best written articles and columns I've ever read, they constitute the basis of a coherent Middle American radicalism. Once you finish it, all of our most important political problems make sense
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Tom Piatak
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@Sanny_Rudra I am not the "Tom Piatak" buying the English soccer team. I am sure he is a fine fellow, but I am not him, he is not me, we have never met, and are not closely related.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
@emeriticus If I were a Ukrainian nationalist, I'd be more concerned about the immediate threat posed to my country by Vladimir Putin than about threat that might be posed to my country in the future by George Soros-funded NGOs
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Tom Piatak
3 years
@USCCB @Synod_va None of these inspire me. How about the corporal and spiritual works of mercy instead?
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Tom Piatak
9 months
Courts used to worry about state actions that would "chill" free speech. What is happening to the Brimelows, if not corrected, will do more than "chill" free speech; it will put it in a Gulag-like Siberian deep freeze, in which dissent would virtually disappear.
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This is a transcript, with many links, of Peter and Lydia Brimelow's discussion of NYAG Letitia James's attack on us, and its threat to VDARE's very survival.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
2). By the time my sister's children attended a different suburban Detroit public school, that school ignored Christmas, but taught children about Hanukkah and Kwanzaa:
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Tom Piatak
1 year
A significant fact, yet largely-ignored. In his ten years as Pope, Francis has not made a single diocesan bishop in East Central Europe a Cardinal. Not even the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
@emeriticus No one in the Ruling Class is ever held accountable for anything. That's one of the chief signs of membership.
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Tom Piatak
1 year
1. The casual cruelty of this pontificate is remarkable. The Diocese of Cleveland has had a Latin Mass authorizes by the Diocese since 1988. Over time, organically, the number of parishes offering the Latin Mass grew to ten.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
@emeriticus Ukraine is asking the International Criminal Court to investigate whar happened at Bucha. This is similar to the Polish Government in exile asking the Red Cross to investigate what happened at Katyn. The Ukrainians don't act like they have something to hide.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
FIVE: Therefore, unless something changes on the Russian side, we need to find a way to deescalate this situation, to allow Putin a face-saving way to back down, and to begin the process of gradually withdrawing from Europe without leaving our allies in the lurch.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Two of Pope Francis' loudest partisans, Australia Ivereigh and Massimo Faggioli, are wailing that the American bishops have nothing about Jan. 6, 2021 on their website. Contra Ivereigh, Jan. 6 is not "this most solemn moment of national reflection." It's a partisan totem.
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Tom Piatak
1 year
@austeni Is it obviously "of God" that priestly vocations have steadily declined since 2013? That the % of Argentine Catholics has plummeted? That the German and Belgian bishops have voted to bless homosexual unions, defying Rome and upending 2,000 years of Christian teaching?
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Tom Piatak
2 years
@JoelWBerry Western civilization resulted from the mixture of Roman civilization with the folkways of the Germanic tribes, as mediated by the Western Church. The emphasis on personal liberty was more a contribution of the Germanic tribes than of the Romans.
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Tom Piatak
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@bradleydevlin @emeriticus @amconmag It would be nice if this article at least mentioned something about Russia's horrific treatment of Estonia, if only to give the reader some perspective. But I see little recognition at the American Conservative that Russia has ever done anything wrong, ever.
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Tom Piatak
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@AnthonyEsolen Astonishing, but true. And to top it all off, breathtakingly cynical claims a "Synodal Church" will "welcome all" and "listen to all."
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@EduardHabsburg 1).The Treaty of Trianon never would have happened if the Magyar elite had shown a modicum of respect for the non-Magyars who also lived in the Ķingdom of Hungary.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
J. D. Vance is exactly right about Barack Obama.
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JD Vance
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Barack Obama is articulate but has never made a memorable speech. The reason is that his views are utterly conventional. He’s unable of saying anything outside of the elite consensus. He’s a walking, talking Atlantic magazine subscription.
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Tom Piatak
1 year
I am giving Pope Francis' most zealous defenders a forum to denounce the latest attack on his authority. @austeni @mfjlewis
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Dr. Maike Hickson
1 year
Bishop Baetzing points out that the Belgian bishops' conference also got away with implementing rules for a homosexual blessing, and therefore the German bishops will go ahead, too.
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Tom Piatak
1 year
Clarence Thomas has been an outstanding Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Erick Erickson
1 year
Clarence Thomas responds to Ketanji Brown Jackson's racist world view with pure fire.
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Tom Piatak
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@Chris_SmithsJ Amen! There are good and holy priests who wear cassocks, biretas, and lace. There are good and holy priests who do not. We need more good and holy priests, period.
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Tom Piatak
1 year
@austeni There are numerous other objections, including that the delegates are not representative of the universal Church, that synodality has been disastrous in other ecclesiastical communities, and that synodality is being imposed in an authoritarian manner, inter alia .
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@SrNatB @Synod_va John Paul II authoritatively stated that the Church can never ordain women to the priesthood. Do you enequivocally accept that the Church can never ordain women to the priesthood, Sister Nathalie?
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Evelyn Waugh's birthday. Born 28 Oct 1903. "It is no longer possible . . . to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it rests."
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Tom Piatak
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@emeriticus Pedro, it's unreasonable for you to expect David Frum to apply the standard he does to Israel to any other country. For Frum, Israel can do no wrong, just as he, Frum, can do no wrong.
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Tom Piatak
1 year
Peter Brimelow makes a very powerful case that the New York State Attorney General is misusing her office to silence political opponents. Such actions are a mortal threat to the American political system.
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John Derbyshire
1 year
NY State Attorney General's lawfare against us: Peter Brimelow gives the details What are we accused of? Nothing! Peter: "We are merely being 'investigated'—at deliberately destructive expense. In other words, we are being battered to death by subpoena."
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Tom Piatak
4 years
Happy Columbus Day! Don't Know Much About History
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Tom Piatak
1 year
Three people who taught me a lot: my Grandpa Piatak, my Grandma Piatak (baptized Stefania Kowalczyk), and her sister, my Aunt Mary (baptized Marianna Bronislawa Kowalczyk).
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Tom Piatak
4 years
Some brief thoughts on the continuing relevance of Sam Francis on the anniversary of his death:
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Tom Piatak
2 years
During the Cuban missile crisis, JFK was aware of the need to avoid the types of actions that made August 1914 so fateful for Western civilization. Is Joe Biden aware of the same imperative?
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Tom Piatak
3 years
@CharlieMartel2 @Steve_Sailer The ADL'S hypocrisy is breathtaking.
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Tom Piatak
11 months
Tucker Carlson recently highlighted one European nation that isn't having mass pro-Hamas demonstrations, and why. My Christmas piece for 2022 for VDARE touches on the same general issues, though without any reference to Hamas, etc.
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Tom Piatak
2 years
Viktor Orban is not a threat to democracy. Indeed, he seems to be a skilled practitioner of it. The threat to democracy is in Brussels, where people who have not been elected to anything seem to spend much of their time trying to undo what voters have done.
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@bradleydevlin @emeriticus @amconmag NATO expansion is not simply an expression of American hubris. No one is forced to join NATO, nor is anyone forced to remain. Countries like Estonia wanted to be in NATO because they know what Russian rule is like. No one at AmCon seems to know.
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Tom Piatak
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@PerfInjust White evangelicals have allies outside the bulwark, of course, but you are the bulwark.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
This man should have been President.
@PatrickBuchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan
3 years
Stress Test for a Fading Superpower
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Tom Piatak
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@ScottMcConnell9 Bill Kristol proves that being wrong about virtually everything is no impediment to success inside the Beltway. Conversely, Pat Buchanan proves that being right about virtually everything counts for very little in that same wretched precinct. Alas, for America.
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Tom Piatak
4 years
@Steve_Sailer Not bad for the second Pearl Harbor.
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3 years
@emeriticus Give em hell. Pedro!
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Tom Piatak
9 months
As for the substance of my view of the man who was the target of the article published at National Review Online, they remain as stated here:
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Tom Piatak
2 years
@JamesMartinSJ @SecretaryPete Were Thomas More and John Fisher "unrealistic" in failing to recognize that Anne Boleyn was Henry VIII's wife? Was John the Baptist unrealistic in refusing to accept Herodias?
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Tom Piatak
2 years
No, the Church in Europe is not dead. It is only dead in the parts in which Cardinal Hollerich's ideas have already been tried and proved fatal.
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Edward Pentin
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Cardinal Hollerich: Critics of the Synod ‘Won’t Be Able to Stop’ It | National Catholic Register @NCRegister
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Tom Piatak
4 years
"Joe Biden's inaugural was the most confusing, contradictory and incoherent ever delivered from the steps of the Capitol, reflective of the mind of its author and the state of the Union he now leads." Patrick J. Buchanan
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Tom Piatak
3 years
@visegrad24 St. John Paul II, pray for us!
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Lots of Catholics grumble about the American bishops. But, so far, most American bishops are protecting the Latin Mass communities in their dioceses from Pope Francis, who wants to eliminate the Latin Mass the same way the Romans eliminated Carthage.
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Tom Piatak
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@ctrlamb @GibsonWrites A father who says he wants to welcome "everyone" and listen to what "everyone " has to say, but who regularly berates one of his own children, never listens to that child, and refuses even to meet with that child, would be a lousy father.
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Tom Piatak
3 years
It's an honor to have an article of mine shared by @PatrickBuchanan
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Patrick J. Buchanan
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Defaming the Dead By Tom Piatak
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Tom Piatak
3 years
Agreed. People who need therapy of all types have been badly damaged by the lockdowns.
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Father V
3 years
The day program for my special needs brother has been closed for two years because 90% of the clients cannot wear a mask. This program was a vital social outlet for those attending. The ‘cost’ of a politicized virus cannot be measured only in $$$—the human toll is incalculable.
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@GibsonWrites How exciting. When do Americans whose Latin Mass parishes have been destroyed by this pontificate get to see the Pope?
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Tom Piatak
3 years
The most memorable Olympic games of my life were held in Lake Placid. The event lost a lot of its charm when it could no longer be held in such modest venues.
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Tom Piatak
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@WeirdEducator "Backward-looking" in Russia, good. "Backward-looking" in the West, bad. "Backward looking" among American reactionaries, really, really bad.
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