Author Archives: Bob Felton

Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society, loathed Dwight Eisenhower with a passion. He was, in Welch’s view, a “conscious, dedicated agent of the Communist Conspiracy.” Even William F. Buckley, who hated Eisenhower’s socially liberal and fiscally conservative … Continue reading →

One way of illustrating how insane the Republican Party has become over the past decade is to compare it to the right-wing ‘extremists’ of a generation ago — to Barry Goldwater, say, whose 1964 defeat is regarded, still, as a … Continue reading →

Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoV: Concerning the Slander of the so-called Evil Qualities §367   My kind of “pity” — This is a feeling for which I can find no adequate term: I … Continue reading →

Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoV: Concerning the Slander of the so-called Evil Qualities §366   To think that the history of all moral phenomena may be simplified, as Schopenhauer thought — that is … Continue reading →

Road tripping with Grand Dragon of KKK to S. Carolina. I learned 2 things: Jesus was not a Jew & hoods and robes have a 400 thread count — Charlie LeDuff (@Charlieleduff) July 18, 2015 Religion and racism go together, … Continue reading →