Friday, September 11, 2026

‘Another Russia Hoax Exposed’

 

The dishonesty about the globalists’ Russia hoax of 2016 has been exposed.  But if anyone thinks we have now entered into a media environment in which reporting on Western-Russian relations will be more honest, he had better think again.

A stunning story out of Europe shows that the globalists are still employing lies in their effort to prolong division between the West and Russia:

‘The Financial Times’ Brussels Bureau Chief Henry Foy prompted panic across Europe last week when he reported that Russian electronic warfare succeeded in jamming the GPS of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s plane right as she was about to land in Bulgaria. The thought that Putin supposedly tried to assassinate a Western leader through “plausibly deniable” means complemented the purpose of her visit by drawing attention to the supposed “Russian threat” that the frontline states face.

‘The problem though is that this never happened. FlightRadar24, which is the world’s most reputable source for in-flight information, shared data debunking this claim. Bulgaria itself later walked back its initial support of this story, which its pro-Western leadership would never have done had there been any truth to it. Politico then published a piece to their credit about how this allegation is starting to unravel. All of this lent credence to Russian officials’ denials that their country jammed von der Leyen’s plane’ (Andrew Korybko, ‘There Might Be More To The Von Der Leyen-GPS-Russia Hoax Than Scoring Cheap Infowar Points,’ korybko.substack.com).

But why, more precisely, this latest Russia hoax?  One of the reasons will sound obscure to us here in the States, but not to the Europeans.  Some of the countries in eastern Europe have their eye on Russian territory, an enclave called Kaliningrad:

‘Astute observers will recall the recurring threats made against Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad since the special operation began. These include Lithuania’s brief blockade of that region, Poland’s renaming of it to “Krolewiec” in reference to the long-gone time when it was a Polish fief, and NATO’s military buildup that’s explicitly predicated in part on neutralizing Russian military forces there. It thus wouldn’t be far-fetched to speculate that Foy’s hoax is meant to justify aggressive signals jamming in Kaliningrad’ (Ibid.).

Another implicates us directly, however:

‘Of course, it’s also possible that Foy’s von der Leyen-GPS-Russia hoax was indeed just some random attempt to score cheap infowar points against Russia, though it can’t confidently be ruled out that this was a perception management operation aimed at advancing the aforesaid goal. Kaliningrad remains too tantalizing of a target for Western warmongers to ignore, especially those who want to provoke a crisis that could pull Trump deeper into mission creep, and this hoax provides the pretext for attempting that’ (Ibid., bolding added).

This is alarming but not all that surprising.  The blood-thirsty, psychopathic globalists know that their Ukraine war will fizzle out without US involvement, so they must do whatever they can (including more lies and hoaxes) to persuade Trump not to seek a quick, peaceful end to it in partnership with Russia.

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2025/09/garlington-another-russia-hoax-exposed/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

‘Irrelevant Congresses and Caesar-Presidents’

 

The powers of the federal executive have been growing steadily in the United States since Lincoln’s War, which destroyed the limited, coordinating government that had existed in DC up to his time in office and replaced it with a powerful, centralized entity that could stomp upon the States with impunity.  Proof of this may be seen in the numbers of executive orders issued by the presidents.  Prior to Lincoln’s War they were quite rare, not even totaling 20 in most cases.  After that turning point, they have ranged from near 100 to over 1,000.

This increase in presidential power corresponds to a diminution of the power of the federal legislature.  Government power is a zero-sum game:  Particular functions cannot be exercised by more than one person or department without creating chaos.  Thus, we have seen the federal Congress grow weaker as the president and the executive bureaucracy grow stronger.

President Trump exemplifies this trend.  Many of his headline-making policies are a usurpation of congressional powers as laid out in the federal constitution.

Tariffs:  Article I, Section 8, clauses 1 and 3 clearly give the power of deciding on tariffs to Congress.  Yet Trump has been busily revising tariff rates from week to week while Congress stands idly by.

Declaring wars:  Art. I, Sec. 8, cl. 11 grants this power to Congress alone.  But again President Trump has launched attacks against quite a few actors, whether countries or non-state actors – Iran, Somali terrorists, the Houthis in Yemen, Venezuelan drug cartels – none of which attacks have been debated or approved by Congress.

Calling up the States’ militias/National Guards:  Art. I, Sec. 8, cl. 15 authorizes the Congress to call out the militia to execute the laws, etc.  The president may not call them up himself; however, once the Congress does call up the Guard, the president then becomes their commander (Art. II, Sec. 2, cl. 1).  Once again, what we have seen with the Trump administrations is the reversal of the constitutional order, with the president sending the National Guard to conduct various law enforcement tasks without a specific act of Congress authorizing those tasks.

Delegation of powers from Congress to the president is an unlawful revision of the federal charter.  Only the States, either in their legislatures or in conventions, have the authority to approve revisions to the charter (Art. V), for they are the ones who originally wrote and ratified it.

But this transition from a powerful legislature and a weak executive to a weak legislature and powerful executive was foreseeable.  A federation as extensive as the United States cannot be governed well by a strong Congress/weak president.  The size of the federation to be governed was a concern from the earliest days of the newly independent States.  One of the best of the Anti-Federalist writers (those who opposed the ratification of the current federal constitution), Brutus, had this to say in Essay 1:

‘Let us now proceed to inquire, as I at first proposed, whether it be best the thirteen United States should be reduced to one great republic, or not? It is here taken for granted, that all agree in this, that whatever government we adopt, it ought to be a free one; that it should be so framed as to secure the liberty of the citizens of America, and such an one as to admit of a full, fair, and equal representation of the people. The question then will be, whether a government thus constituted, and founded on such principles, is practicable, and can be exercised over the whole United States, reduced into one state?

‘If respect is to be paid to the opinion of the greatest and wisest men who have ever thought or wrote on the science of government, we shall be constrained to conclude, that a free republic cannot succeed over a country of such immense extent, containing such a number of inhabitants, and these increasing in such rapid progression as that of the whole United States. Among the many illustrious authorities which might be produced to this point, I shall content myself with quoting only two.

‘The one is the Baron de Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws,[1] Chap. xvi. Vol. I [Book VIII]. “It is natural to a republic to have only a small territory, otherwise it cannot long subsist. In a large republic there are men of large fortunes, and consequently of less moderation; there are trusts too great to be placed in any single subject; he has interest of his own; he soon begins to think that he may be happy, great and glorious, by oppressing his fellow citizens; and that he may raise himself to grandeur on the ruins of his country. In a large republic, the public good is sacrificed to a thousand views; it is subordinate to exceptions, and depends on accidents. In a small one, the interest of the public is easier perceived, better understood, and more within the reach of every citizen; abuses are of less extent, and of course are less protected.” Of the same opinion is the Marquis Beccarari.[2]

‘History furnishes no example of a free republic, anything like the extent of the United States. The Grecian republics were of small extent; so also was that of the Romans. Both of these, it is true, in process of time, extended their conquests over large territories of country; and the consequence was, that their governments were changed from that of free governments to those of the most tyrannical that ever existed in the world’ (teachingamericanhistory.org).

Keep in mind that the size of the union at the time Brutus was writing was a fraction of what it is today, consisting mainly of the States along the Atlantic coast.  Yet even a union of that size aroused his skepticism of the formation and long duration of a limited, representative federal government.  How much more would he have balked at the idea of such a government existing in a union that stretches over several time zones, such as ours does today.

Brutus adds the following:

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The rest is at https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/irrelevant-congresses-and-caesar-presidents/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Remembrances for September – 2026

 

Dear friends, if you have time, please pray for these members of the Southern family on the day they reposed.  Many thanks.

But one may ask:  ‘What good does it do to pray for the departed?’  An answer is offered here:  https://orthochristian.com/130608.html

Along with prayers and hymns for the departed:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6je5axPodI

4 September

Bascom Lamar Lunsford, led a revival of traditional music and dance in Appalachia in the early 20th century.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99335539/bascom_lamar-lunsford

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/fighting-globalism-with-the-power-of-dance/

4 Sept.

General John Hunt Morgan, a very effective Kentucky cavalry leader in the War, doing much to disrupt Yankee supply lines and making an incursion deep into Northern territory.  Killed in battle in 1864.

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3531

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4433/john-hunt-morgan/photo

4 Sept.

Judge Spencer Roane, one of the best judges of his day, and an unsung hero for local authority.

http://roanefamilytree.com/Judge_Spencer_Roane.html

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/mcculloch-v-maryland/

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/spencer-roane-the-forgotten-founder/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18472831

9 Sept.

Bill Monroe, one of the pioneers of the Bluegrass genre of music.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/what-makes-this-musician-great-bill-monroe/

9 Sept.

Stand Watie, a Cherokee leader who became a general in the Confederate Army.  He was one of the last to surrender to the Yankees in the War.

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=WA040

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4506/stand-watie

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/they-came-from-the-east/

10 Sept.

Gov Huey Long, a true champion of the lower classes in Louisiana, unfortunately tainted with corruption and other problems.  He was mortally wounded in 1935 on 8 Sept., the birthday of the Theotokos.

https://texasjohnslaughter.substack.com/p/lessons-in-southern-populism-the

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2025/09/08/102541-the-nativity-of-our-most-holy-lady-the-mother-of-god-and-ever-vi

15 Sept.

Archibald Rutledge, a Poet Laureate of South Carolina, writer of 90 books of poetry and prose.  Descended from South Carolina’s nobility.

https://www.reckonin.com/clyde-wilson/archibald-rutledge-carolina-bard

http://www.theofficialschalloffame.com/directlink.html?id=72

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13954774/archibald_hamilton-rutledge

15 Sept.

Robert Penn Warren, ‘at home in all the major genres–poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism–though poetry was his dominant mode. Warren was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes, a number unmatched by any other writer: one for his novel All The King’s Men (1947) and two for the poetry collections Promises (1958) and Now and Then (1978). He also received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters awarded him its Gold Medal for Poetry in 1985. In 1986 he was named poet laureate, the first in the United States to be given that title.’

https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/robert-penn-warren/

https://www.robertpennwarren.com/

16 Sept.

James Oliver Rigney, Jr (aka Robert Jordan), the writer of a renowned series of fantasy books, The Wheel of Time, amongst other works.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/let-the-south-ride-again-on-the-winds-of-time/

17 Sept.

Gov Pedro Menendez, the first Spanish governor of Florida who founded the first permanent European settlement in the South (the city of St Augustine).  A good military commander (though a little too quick to shed blood), he negotiated with the Native Americans to trade peacefully and worked to evangelize them as well.

https://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/menendz/menendz1.htm

20 Sept.

Richard Rowland Kirkland, the famous ‘Angel of Marye’s Heights’, he tended to the Yankee wounded after the Battle of Fredericksburg.

https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/kirkland-richard-rowland/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4063/richard-rowland-kirkland

23 Sept.

Major Richard Dowling, the son of recent Irish immigrants, he turned back a large Yankee invasion force in Sabine Pass in 1863 with a comparatively much smaller force.  Many places in southeast Texas were named in honor of him.

https://easttexashistory.org/items/show/164

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6813103/richard-william-dowling

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/dowling-richard-william

24 Sept.

William ‘Singing Billy’ Walker, he helped popularize shape note/Sacred Harp singing in the South.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/not-just-whistling-dixie/

http://originalsacredharp.com/2013/12/31/william-walker-carolina-contributor-to-american-music/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32607297/william-walker/photo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(composer)#/media/File:Grave_of_William_Walker_(composer).jpg

27 Sept.

Gen. Braxton Bragg, a gifted commander in certain ways, but his ornery personality usually wound up antagonizing those around him.

https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/bragg-braxton

28 Sept.

Sen. Thomas Bayard, Sr, a staunch defender of the South against Radical Reconstructionists.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/thomas-f-bayard-sr/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6653371/thomas-francis-bayard

Also, to celebrate some of the saints of September from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands, use these links:

https://southernorthodox.org/orthodox-saints-for-dixie-september/

https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2020/10/happy-feast-for-saints-of-september.html

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!