It has been six years and we are still los­ing the war. On this the first Tues­day 11 Sep­tem­ber since the last Tues­day 11 Sep­tem­ber, it is pro­foundly heart­break­ing that, instead of iden­ti­fy­ing and destroy­ing our enemy, our gov­ern­ment has instead shack­led our abil­ity to defend our­selves to the whim of col­lec­tivists, appeased and pan­dered to those who would destroy us, and vis­ciously under­cut the very prin­ci­ples for which we should be fight­ing. Can it really be that Amer­i­cans have for­got­ten what it did to us? If it hap­pened again, would we react the same way? Or has the post-​​​​terror [ . . . ]

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Open let­ter to TV com­mer­cial direc­tors of pho­tog­ra­phy: Shak­ing the cam­era will not make what the ad is say­ing more true. It will only make your view­ers sea­sick. This is espe­cially so on larger screens. No one wants to buy a prod­uct whose ad made them barf. It doesn’t make your sub­ject more “real,” or “raw,” or “edgy,” or “rel­e­vant.” It’s also such a Com­mie thing to do. Cinéma vérité, Dogme 95, real­ity tele­vi­sion, doc­u­men­tary film­mak­ing — all are direct ide­o­log­i­cal descen­dants of Soviet agit­prop and dialec­ti­cal mate­ri­al­ism. The idea that shak­ing the cam­era makes the sub­ject more real­is­tic, by ana­logue to [ . . . ]

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