We are done here. turcopolier.com is working now. I have cancelled all guest author ships here. RSS is enabled on the new blog. Comments will no longer be moderated on SST. pl Continue reading

My new blog is now public. available at turcopolier.com I will be moving all business to that blog shortly. Authors on the new blog are being notified of their status. I will leave this one up for a while to... Continue reading

Hölderlin's Asclepiad Stanza Lyric "Love" ("Die Liebe") Translated by Steven Willett Hölderlin's Dream Note: This is one of Hölderlin's most popular poems. It has been set to music and song several times. It is also extremely difficult to translate his... Continue reading

"Rep. Matt Gaetz on Sunday floated a potential presidential bid by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and implied the Biden administration is considering pre-flight testing and domestic air travel restrictions to "cast aspersions on the Florida experience" because DeSantis could be... Continue reading

Some faithful readers of SST were understandably upset when I blew the whistle on Mary Fanning’s fraudulent contribution to Mike Lindell’s latest video, Absolute Proof. I agree with Mr. Lindell that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen from Mr. Trump.... Continue reading

"Unlike California, which is petitioning to recall Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom for his coronavirus lockdowns and mismanagement, New York does not have a recall procedure. Pataki once sought a New York amendment for just that in 2002, but then Democrat... Continue reading

"Organizers of a campaign to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom say they have obtained the required number of signatures to trigger a special election. The secretary of state's office will need to process the signatures and determine if they are... Continue reading

Let's start with this blaring headline from the Miami Herald: White House looks at domestic travel restrictions as COVID mutation surges in Florida For those of you not familiar with my previous pieces on the Florida pandemic as viewed from... Continue reading

Pindar Pythian 4 Ode for Arkesilas of Cy... Continue reading

This is sad but predictable, a son informs on his father to the FBI. The father is allegedly a Capitol demonstrator. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/teenager-hiding-capitol-riots-jackson-reffitt-b1792474.htmlhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/teenager-hiding-capitol-riots-jackson-reffitt-b1792474.html This child identified as a social justice warrior and has destroyed his family. My opinion is that identity... Continue reading

"Officials in Jerusalem believe the Jan. 31 declaration by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that Iran was just months, and possibly weeks, away from obtaining sufficient fissile material for a bomb were exaggerated and deliberate. According to Israeli diplomatic and... Continue reading

"Perseverance is aiming for an ancient river delta that seems a logical spot for once harboring life. This landing zone in Jezero Crater is so treacherous that NASA nixed it for Curiosity, but so tantalizing that scientists are keen to... Continue reading

"Among Dr. Pais's patents are designs, approved in 2018, for an aerospace-underwater craft of incredible speed and maneuverability. This cone-shaped vehicle can potentially fly just as well anywhere it may be, whether air, water or space, without leaving any heat... Continue reading

"President Biden is expected to travel to Delaware this weekend, in what will be his first out-of-town trip since taking office, despite warnings from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention to avoid travel. The CDC’s guidance this week said... Continue reading

"The publicly-accessible list would contain serial numbers, owner names and gun locations. Obtaining a license would require gun owners to undergo a psychological evaluation, which would include interviewing family members or associates to determine mental and emotional states. Applicants must... Continue reading

If you think yourself a Conservative, the decline in conservative editorial policy on Foxnews and Fox Business should have been clear to you for months. First we saw the now fired Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt and his team of eggheads... Continue reading

"For many years it seemed that overpopulation was the looming crisis of our age. Back in 1968, the Stanford biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich infamously predicted that millions would soon starve to death in their bestselling, doom-saying book The Population... Continue reading

" ... the sorts of beliefs that lead to the kind of conduct that can be so detrimental to good order and discipline and in fact is criminal." Still, Austin said in the meeting with military leaders that while the... Continue reading

"The Supreme Leader first issued an oral nuclear fatwa in 2003, and he has repeated it in numerous speeches since then. These pronouncements, which use a religious idiom to describe nuclear weapons as “forbidden” (haram), have the same legal standing... Continue reading

Jen Psaki who seems an effective press secretary, was asked a few days ago if the Biden Administration supported the existence of the US Space Force. Her response indicated that she thought the question was a joke and that she... Continue reading

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"After the great and good fight, at the age of 92, Brig F.B.Ali has made his final graceful bow, and walked out into the sunset and beyond. And in so doing, he has left the world a poorer place. If... Continue reading

"The program was signed at an inter-American conference at Punta del Este, Uruguay, in August 1961. The charter called for: an annual increase of 2.5% in per capita income, the establishment of democratic governments, the elimination of adult illiteracy by... Continue reading

(We'll catch'em wit' spaghetti on their forks) "Biden – who has a history of plagiarism – was essentially lying, especially when one considers the mammoth effort involved in distribution efforts which would make major changes costly and risk setbacks to... Continue reading

"The white supremacist insurrectionists of the 1870s focused on just one region — the South — while the Trumpian insurrectionists have no geographic restrictions. This explains why, in the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot, the FBI found it... Continue reading