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— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) May 23, 2026
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Author: Blazingcatfur
The Stories That Saved the West
What do fantastic tales have to do with the survival of our civilization?
The world that plunged from one World War to the next with an economic disaster in between demanded full seriousness to survive. Storytelling could surely wait.
In his new book on J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, The War for Middle Earth, Joseph Loconte answers: to the contrary. More than any other time, those years gave rise to stories that have strengthened the souls and minds, the hearts and the hands of all who must deal with darkness. Their stories uncover an inextinguishable flame and the beckoning path it shows back towards home.
Conrad Black: Canada better hope Alberta doesn’t leave with its wealth
It is painful to reflect on this, but I think we are disserving ourselves if we do not recognize how absurd this country appears to many well-disposed and intelligent foreign onlookers. We are now seen as the most absurdly woke and politically correct (and therefore foolish) country in the world, and the country with the highest suicide rate in the world because our crumbling health-care system now champions the virtues of early death, as well as being one of the most unsafe advanced countries for Jews to live in, because of widespread antisemitic bigotry.
Two Americans Died Fighting for Filipino Communists
Last month, two Americans were killed in a foreign state’s counterterrorism operation. If Lyle Prijoles, 40, and Kai Dana-Rene Sorem, 26, had been part of a group of jihadi terrorists in the Middle East, their deaths would likely have generated national headlines. But they were in the Philippines, fighting for the New People’s Army (NPA), a decades-old Maoist insurgent group that serves as the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
The two appear to have died fighting: many Western reports of the incident explicitly note that Prijoles’s and Sorem’s deaths occurred in a “firefight,” implying an exchange of fire between both sides. Nor were they fighting on the side of good: both the CPP and NPA are designated foreign terrorist organizations by the State Department.
Carney walks a tightrope on Fortress North America as trade review looms
Prime Minister Mark Carney has spent much of the past year warning that Canada’s close economic integration with the United States has become a weakness that must be corrected. Earlier this month, he began to change his tune.
Speaking to an audience of Liberal supporters in Toronto two weeks ago, he said that Canada “remains open to deeper integration” with the United States in certain sectors, “including options for Fortress North America.”
“To be clear, those offers are on the table,” he said. “If that route is not ultimately possible, we will invest heavily in new markets and products.”
Do All Roads Lead to Beijing?
Imagine you are a nation’s leader facing problems or seeking to underline your legitimacy on the global stage. Where will you go in pursuit of those goals?
In ancient times, all roads led to Rome or Susa, where two great empires set the tune in large chunks of the three continents known at the time. In the age of European imperialism, the obvious destinations were London, Paris and Petrograd. During the Cold War, Washington and Moscow were the obvious destinations. After the USSR collapsed, Washington was seen as the first source of authority, with the United Nations as a distant second.
GOLDSTEIN: Wars against Israel are wars against Jews
Anyone who understands the history of the Middle East knows the wars against Israel by the Arab-Muslim world are in reality wars against Jews.
That doesn’t mean criticism of Israel is antisemitic.
Did ‘Trump Derangement’ Kill Stephen Colbert’s Late Night Show?
This morning on O’Connor & Company (Salem News Channel), host Larry O’Connor sat down with Media Research Center (MRC) President David Bozell to dissect the demise of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show on CBS. What was once a landscape of edgy, anti-establishment humor has devolved into a predictable echo chamber and the MRC has the data to prove it.
Vancouver man facing 227 days in jail after assaulting teen with feces
A man who pleaded guilty to several “vile” offences that included assaulting a teenager and smearing fecal matter over her face and mouth has been handed a sentence of 695 days, or almost two years, by a judge in Vancouver. However, after time served in pre-trial custody, he will face just 227 more days behind bars.
… Court records say that Zewdu was born in Ethiopia and moved with his father to Canada when he was three. A few years later, his mother and sister joined them.
Iran’s supreme leader has agreed ‘in principle’ to give up uranium as part of peace deal, US official says
WASHINGTON — American negotiators believe that Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has signed off on the “broad template” of a peace plan in which his nation would agree “in principle” to dispose of its highly enriched uranium.
The deal, which would reopen the Strait of Hormuz to free passage of ships after three months of war, could still take days for final ratification by Iranian negotiators as both sides wrangle over its wording.
Growing alliance between cartels, organized crime emerges after one of Canada’s largest drug busts
WINNIPEG – More than 500 kilograms of illicit drugs, including meth and cocaine, have been seized in what investigators are calling the largest drug bust in Manitoba’s history.
Dubbed “Project Puma,” the two-year, multi-province investigation led to the arrest of 33 people and the seizure of drugs with an estimated street value exceeding $37 million.
Among those arrested are suspects allegedly connected to international criminal organizations, raising alarms for law enforcement experts about the growing convergence of organized crime networks in Canada.
Anti-Gun Activist Calls for End to U.S. Firearms Production
The gun control lobby has done a pretty good job of masking its true intentions behind a veneer of “gun safety.” Even though advocates like Gabby Giffords have proclaimed at times that the goal is “no more guns,” folks like Brady’s Kris Brown regularly claim that they’re not opposed to gun ownership but are just in favor of a few “reasonable, common sense gun regulations.”
Michael Higgins: Trump’s critics are addicted to fantasies of fascism
The opponents of U.S. President Donald Trump have been smearing him with the label fascist for years, but have always resorted to being inventive when producing the evidence.
In November 2024, American historian Timothy Snyder accused Trump of “talky fascism” and predicted he would change the system so he could remain in power until his death. Commenting last December on the Republican nomination for president in 2028, Trump said, “It’s not going to be me.”
Hunger increasingly used as weapon of war as ‘food-related violence’ surges, analysis shows
Hunger is being increasingly exploited as a weapon of war with more than 20,000 documented incidents of “food-related violence” in the past eight years, new analysis reveals.
Attacks include 1,261 strikes on markets used by families for daily groceries and 863 incidents in which food distribution systems were targeted and workers killed.
The analysis looked at the period since UN resolution 2417 unanimously condemned the deliberate starvation of civilians in 2018. It found starvation is being increasingly weaponised with the supply of food routinely targeted in Gaza, Sudan, Lebanon and Haiti among others.