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Author Archives: Jacques Delacroix
Climate Change, the Poor Countries, my Money, and a New Kind of Old Car
So, now, Old Mr. Biden wants to give my tax money away to poor countries to make up for the damage I caused them by driving cars. That’s the new twist in the continuing tale of the climate change cult. … Continue reading
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Life Isn’t Fair
My brother and I were going to drive from Paris to northwestern Spain. A hired boat was waiting for us there for a sailing vacation. We were both in our late twenties. I was smarter than anyone and my brother … Continue reading
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Memoirs of Not Getting Girls Pregnant
One issue that’s crying out for moderate voices is that of abortion. One of the evils of Wade vs Roe is to have made debate on abortion seem superfluous for fifty years, unlike what happened in Western Europe for example … Continue reading
Fighting for Every Inch of Ukrainian Soil
I ask myself: How much would I be willing to sacrifice to protect the Ukrainians from Russian slavery. The answer is clear: I would take 50% cut in my living standard. That would be maybe not forever but for a … Continue reading
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Casus Belli?
Thinking about the Russian destruction of Mariupol and its naval blockade of the remaining Ukrainian sea outlets, including the big port city of Odesa. I keep reading and hearing commentaries to the effect that the difficulty the Ukrainians are meeting … Continue reading
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Islamophobia (My)
The continuing Russian brutalities in Ukraine are diverting my attention from other horrors perpetrated elsewhere in the world. About ten days ago the de facto government of Afghanistan, the semi-literate Taliban, announced that Afghan women had to cover their faces … Continue reading
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I Don’t Want to Fight to the Last Ukrainian
I hope the brave Ukrainians will soon decide to stop dying. I seems to me they have to. The Russians have demonstrated that their armed forces are too incompetent to conquer Ukraine and to reduce it to a satellite. Their … Continue reading
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Many Conservatives Lost in the Tall Weeds
A surprising number of my conservative FB friends, and also of my real- life friends, got lost in the moral tall weeds in the past month or so. I mean that they seem to hesitate between the victim, Ukraine, and … Continue reading
Why I Can’t Take Feminists Seriously (More Escapism)
My thirteen-year-old granddaughter is lithe, slim (with curves) and tall for her age. She is also pretty. (I feel free to brag about her because she has hardly more genes in common with me than if I were a bonobo. … Continue reading
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