Arthur in California
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GWOT Vet | Old Stock Texan | Western Traditionalist | Writes about Immigration, Culture & the West | Essays → arthurincali.com/

 California, USA
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The same legacy media that whipped up Covid hysteria now try to downplay the very effects they helped cause while mocking those who remember.
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Conveniently Forgotten Covid-19 Effects

Things just not mentioned When the news of Covid-19 emerged at the beginning of 2020, there was of course, a sense of trepidation. Myself and many others of a certain age remembered the prior waves of

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Europe Sees the Ghost of Kissinger

What is surreal is to see many grasp the reality that Europe is a collection of vassal states to America and has been for a long, long time. The quiet part is simply being said out loud. Many will

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Rahm Emanuel Reflections on Japan

The US ambassador to Japan discusses his tenure It is common for outgoing US ambassadors to summarize time spent overseas in a foreign nation. These faux-memoirs are usually published in a mainstream

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What Happened to Sears?

(Old college paper from business school. Enjoy. -Arthur) An American Icon: The Rise and Fall of Sears and Roebuck and Lessons Learned Throughout America's history, a few notable companies have risen
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Boomers Destroyed American

[Originally published on my Substack June 2025] Catchy title, right? A raw, visceral condemnation of an entire generation that delivers a swift punch to the gut. I imagine the furious keystrokes in

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South Africa and America

One of the benefits traveling the world can be the expanded perspectives gained from the experience. I say can be in that this doesn’t include those who vacation at a Sandals resort in the Bahamas, or

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Falling Down as American Allegory

“How'd that happen? I did everything they told me to. Did you know I build missiles? I helped to protect America. You should be rewarded for that. Instead they give it to the plastic surgeons, y'know,

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America is Not Just an Idea

“People will not fight for abstractions, but they will fight for their home.” -JD Vance The pernicious concept of America as simply a collection of ideas written down has gained more traction, with
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American Miasma

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between Guam International Airport — Late 2002 A feeling of excitement and nervousness went through me as I
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You Get A PEPFAR! You Get A PEPFAR! Everyone Gets PEPFAR!

In the mid-2000s, one of the more notable early viral moments online was when Oprah Winfrey “gave away” almost 300 new cars to her studio audience in a surprise giveaway. Watching the clip below, one

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My Dad is Gone

Machines beep to their own rhythm and reason. One can almost recognize a song to the beat after listening long enough. Laughter and tears of joy from one floor of the medical center while cries of
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The (Iraqi) Spice Must Flow!

Life as an underpaid ExxonMobil employee. Long forgotten down the memory hole is that one of the promises of the 2003 Iraq War was that future oil profits from the country were going to fund the
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