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Happy Thanksgiving for 2025!

Posted on November 27, 2025 by The Political Hat

     The modern Thanksgiving, as a truly national holiday, and for that we have the abolitionist Sarah Josepha Hale to thank for not only making Thanksgiving a truly national holiday after the Civil War, but for popularizing the inclusion of cranberries … Continue reading →

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The One Piece Revolts

Posted on November 25, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Protests, riots, uprisings, and even revolutions are nothing new. However, a spate of such occurrences have recently erupted throughout the world on the majority of continents. These have two things in common. The first is that involves, quite heavily, protesters … Continue reading →

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Happy Halloween! (2025)

Posted on October 31, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Here is the silent classic version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from 1920.

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The Aberration And Lies Of Nostalgia

Posted on October 13, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Nostalgia is one hell of a drug.   For some people, the present is an exercise, not in what is good, but what detracts therefrom. The future is forever descending doom. No wonder, then, why so many want to look … Continue reading →

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Magna Carta And The Birth Of The Rule Of Law

Posted on July 3, 2025 by The Political Hat

     The original Magna Carta, signed by the Barons and King John at Runnymede, celebrated it’s 800th birthday ten years ago. Along with the Charter of the Forest, they became the foundational documents of the Anglosphere and of American reverence for … Continue reading →

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Redefining Terms And Natural Law

Posted on July 1, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Many a year a go, an intelligent and well read Catholic school teacher, who was politically Left-wing, said to me that “Social Justice” meant no more than the concepts that Thomas Aquinas discussed and anyone who had a problem with … Continue reading →

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Wokeness vs. Classical Liberalism

Posted on June 10, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Liberals, Communists, and Woke totalitarians are often lumped together. But there are differences between Wokeness and Classical Liberalism, particularly when it comes to “systems of oppression” and the “false consiousness” that purportedly protects it which can only be overthrown through … Continue reading →

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     Due to being abnormally busy over the next two weekends, there will be no “News of the Week” this upcoming Sunday or the Sunday thereafter.  Posting will otherwise be light.

Posted on May 23, 2025 by The Political Hat | 1 Comment

Secular Religiosity

Posted on May 12, 2025 by The Political Hat

     As of late, many “influencers” online have been using the phrase “Christ is King” as, ironically enough, an anti-Semitic shibboleth. It’s a clever, abet insidious, signifier as it leans into “Jews killed Jesus” hatemongering as the Motte while allowing them … Continue reading →

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Give or take a few plugin related problems, the site seems to be back up and working for now.

Posted on April 19, 2025 by The Political Hat | Comments Off on Post-Migration Test