The Cassandra Page

As the days go on in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, it is becoming a safe bet that two predictions will come true: (1) Stephen Paddock will officially be known as a lone gunman, despite a...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2017/10/as-days-go-on-in-wake-of-las-vegas.html

It is easier to rule a state in its decline than in its youth; diminished vitality almost welcomes subjugation. Will Durant, THE RENAISSANCE, p. 699 (writing of late-Renaissance Florence)

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2014/09/quote-of-day-will-durant.html

Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS. Camille Paglia - SEX, ART, AND AMERICAN CULTURE p. 216

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2014/08/quote-of-day-camille-paglia-aids.html

Hollywood Bible movies of the Fifties, like THE TEN COMMANDMENTS and BEN-HUR, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more truth about art and society than the French in...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2014/07/quote-of-day-camille-paglia.html

More evidence to disprove "global warming" from the Winter of 2014. - Steve Czaban discusses frigid temperatures and their effects on football fans . - AP reports on sub-zero temperatures a...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2014/01/deadly-winter-conditions-prove-warmists.html

Obamacare is as close to a Hoover Dam as latter-day Big Government gets. Which is why its catastrophic launch is sobering even for those of us who've been saying for five years it would be a disa...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/12/quote-of-day-mark-steyn-obamacare.html

"It is an ancient opinion, not only of the Christians but of the Gentiles, that the heavens, the sea, and the earth must some day perish; in like manner, of many magnificent cities nothing but ru...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/11/quote-of-day-leonello.html

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, I will recommend one book to balance all of the usual propaganda. The book is not about the assassination. It was written while Ke...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/11/jfk-man-and-myth-50th-anniversary-book.html

In case you are wondering what happens when a society succumbs to one-party despotic rule, read the following passage on the city-state of Perugia (in Renaissance Italy). The author describes the...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-consequences-of-tyranny-perugia.html

So men hand down to their successors their heritage - their lore and codes and skills; and transmission becomes half the technique of civilization. Will Durant - THE RENAISSANCE - p. 233

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If you are alone, you are all your own; with a companion you are half yourself; so you squander yourself according to the indiscretion of your company. Leonardo da Vinci

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/11/quote-of-day-leonardo-da-vinci.html

If you are in the minority of Americans not already unalterably opposed to Obamacare, keep in mind that the only reason the government is shut down right now is that Democrats refuse to fund the ...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/10/quote-of-day-ann-coulter.html

The tragic irony of today's anniversary is this - at the same time that we commemorate the events of September 11, 2001, we are seriously debating whether we should commit U.S. air and naval forc...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/09/september-11th-anniversary-shoud-us-now.html

An age of political excitement is usually a stimulant to literature . . . ut a state always verging on bankruptcy, and engaged in almost permanent revolution, does not favor art - and least of al...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/09/quote-of-day-will-durant.html

Seriously, folks, this was a far more literate country when it spent far less money on its schools. I'll say it again: in one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offer...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/09/quote-of-day-joe-sobran.html

“The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school." ~ G.K. Chesterton

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/08/quote-of-day-g-k-chesterton.html

The merchants preferred economic prosperity to political freedom; the proleteriat was kept busy with extensive public works, and forgave dictatorship so long as Lorenzo supplied it with bread an...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/07/quote-of-day-will-durant-lorenzo-de.html

Al Sharpton, MSNBC’s in-house bigot and hate-crime king, had his usual words of wisdom to offer after the Zimmerman verdict. “What this jury has done is establish a precedent that when you ...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/07/quote-of-day-daniel-greenfield.html

"Trayvon could've been me, 35 years ago ." This is big. Can we track down the Hispanic guy he beat up for being gay? Jim Treacher - 7-19-2013

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/07/quote-of-day-jim-treacher.html

But it took more than a revival of antiquity to make the Renaissance.  And first of all it took money - smelly, bourgeois money: the profits of skillful managers and underpaid labor; of hazardou...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/06/quote-of-day-will-durant-renaissance.html

It may be that the strange synchronicity between the president and the permanent bureaucracy is mere happenstance and not, as it might sound to the casual ear, the sinister merging of party and s...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2013/06/quote-of-day-mark-steyn.html

Harry Belafonte (as a guest on MSNBC) has advised President Obama to imprison his political opponents "like a third world dictator."    If you are not sure exactly who it is that Belafonte ...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2012/12/harry-belafonte-advises-obama-to.html

On November 1, 2008, I predicted that Obama would seize private retirement accounts, including 401(k)'s.  I provided more detail on November 15, 2008 .  A story in Time Magazine now appears...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2012/11/401k-accounts-to-be-seized-obamas.html

Yesterday's election saw the victory of "revenge" over "love of country." Every so often, a politician accidentally speaks the truth (or something close to it). Last week, Obama said something...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2012/11/revenge-vs-love-of-country.html

At first it might seem like a stretch to compare Benghazi with Chappaquiddick, but the similarities exist.  Modern pundits are anxious to compare every scandal to Watergate.  But not every scan...

http://cassandra2004.blogspot.com/2012/11/benghazi-and-chappaquiddick.html