The Post-Partisan Emporium

  We are trapped in Cyclop’s cave, but escape could be easy... Alex Krainer A Michigan nurse, one Tawanda Hall missed $900 on her property taxes. The county took her $308,000 home , sold it and confiscated the entire $286,000 in profit. The government took everything she owed, then everything she had: “They took my whole house, my whole family’s livelihood.” Journalist John Stossel pointed out to another case where a county seized a retiree’s home over an $8 debt. People shouldn’t have to fight in court to stop the government from taking their home over eight dollars. And they shouldn’t have to pay property taxes in the first place: it’s almost like you have to pay the government for the privilege of having property. A few months ago, American political commentator Nick Fuentes posted a video message about the U.S. government seizing his funds. Here’s what happened: one day he discovered that he had zero dollars in his checking account. He called his bank and learned that, “you...

  All Species Are thriving But Man The real threat is environmentalists, bureaucrats and politicians ELIZABETH NICKSON When I moved to the country at the age of 48 I was exhausted and sick. I spent most afternoons in bed, reading and resting and watching bad TV. I’d grown up in the country, but at 17, moved to the cities for education, and lived in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, New York and London, about 6 years in each, adding Paris because I worked there so often, I almost rented an apartment. More like a closet with a bed in Le Marais. “Some of us are bound to the earth,” a friend writes from her five acres in Ireland, which she is trying to rewild. I never felt completely well in the cities, I was trading youth and strength for enough knowledge to get out and make a living, a life, before I got cancer or heart disease, which is essentially how I thought of it. Another year, I’d say to myself, stick it out for one more year. I live now embedded in nature. My first house had a sp...