2024-03-19 22:08
My latest on American Thinker.In short, the scenario is that of a Western world in the grip of a strange obsession arising from a misunderstanding, whereby we are confronted with the po… Read More
Blog Directory > Politics Blogs > Government Blogs > Wind Rose Hotel government Blog >
Wind Rose Hotel Blog
windrosehotel.blogspot.com
Tags:
elon musk
american
america
hope trump
italian national
sexual orientation
dahl
establishment
soros
publishers speaking
And Brutus is an honourable man
2024-01-19 20:24
My latest on American Thinker.Several indicators suggest that a shift in public sentiment is taking placeIt’s become almost a cliché that the United States of America, once… Read More
2023-11-10 00:28
My latest on American Thinker.Musk gets it: at the core of Soros’s project is the destruction of America and what she stands for.
Something some observers of public life in the Unite… Read More
2023-06-08 08:07
My latest on American Thinker.There is no politician who better understands that Woke is an existential threat to America
Ron DeSantis calls himself the governor of the state “where w… Read More
2023-04-23 20:14
My latest on American Thinker.School choice will drastically reduce the Democrat Party’s election workforce, squeeze its finances and even discredit its basic philosophy
"Surviving th… Read More
2023-02-27 20:59
My latest on American Thinker.This latest woke assault to common sense and freedom of expression might just be turning against those who launched it."Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absu… Read More
2022-12-21 16:04
My latest on American Thinker.Is America running low on the resources it requires to avoid ruin? Victor Davis Hanson concern about the fate of AmericaWhen news of the Battle of Saratoga rea… Read More
2022-12-04 14:20
My latest on American Thinker.Let's hope Elon Musk at Twitter is prepared for an onslaught from the world's biggest players against freedom of speech.Just a few days ago, as many will rememb… Read More
2022-09-28 16:09
My latest on American Thinker.Apart from the EU’s establishment and the international leftist community, no one should be worried about Italy’s next government.The New York … Read More
2022-09-10 19:47
My latest on American Thinker:"Among the many consequences of the war in Ukraine, power dynamics in the EU are changing -- or have changed -- in response to the profoundly altered circumstan… Read More
2022-06-11 13:00
My latest on American Thinker:"It must have been a whirlwind last few days for Ilya Shapiro, from his reinstatement as head of the Georgetown University Law Center, on Thursday, June 2, afte… Read More
2022-04-06 19:42
Gerardo Dottori, "Incendio sulla città" (1926, olio su tela)My latest on American Thinker:On September 19, 2019, accepting the Defender of Western Civilization award from the Intercol… Read More
2022-02-07 20:55
My latest on American Thinker:"There are at least three terms to describe the concept of stakeholder capitalism -- corporate wokeness, woke corporatism and woke capitalism. The last of… Read More
2022-01-18 07:59
My latest on American Thinker:"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” This well-known quote is a liberal translation of Antonio Gr… Read More
2021-12-26 21:03
My latest on American Thinker: "Hard times are coming for vaccine fanatics and fear-mongering lockdown enthusiasts, or at least that’s what we can reasonably expect after reading… Read More
2021-11-08 11:36
It definitely seems that there's a sickness emanating from the United States that seeks to contaminate all of Western civilization. France in particular, believe it or not, is alarmed...&nbs&hell…Read More
2021-10-03 08:42
"If this isn’t a fight to the death, I don’t know what it is." My latest on American Thinker.COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
All original content of this blog [Wind Rose Hotel] is subjec… Read More
2021-07-19 10:25
As a result of the rise of wokism, faith in the principles of economic freedom and meritocracy is at an all-time low in the UK... My latest on American Thinker. COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
All o… Read More
2021-06-30 22:59
American Thinker – one of my favorite online magazines! – just published a piece I wrote about how Critical Race Theory seems to have become the EU’s equivalent of China&rs&hell…Read More
2021-03-20 14:10
Rarely have I come across such an inspirational and enlightening book. Though simply and pleasantly written, Blessed Are the Free in Spirit: A Journal in Complicated times displays a critica… Read More
2021-03-20 14:04
Once upon a time, I was a blogger. Now I’m someone who has a blog somewhere but has no time to update it anymore. But once a blogger, always a blogger… yeah, as Samuel Robert Pi… Read More
2021-02-19 11:55
Dear Readers, Here we go again, a new book is born. A few weeks ago, when all the chapters were already written, I just had to write the Introduction to outline the purpose, goals, and con… Read More
2021-01-14 21:05
This morning, as sometimes happens to all of us, I woke up with a song playing in my head, the typical case in which you ask yourself, “Why the hell is this song playing in my ears? Wh… Read More
2020-12-26 17:30
I wandered lonely as a cloud,That floats on high o’er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and danci… Read More
2020-12-13 08:50
We should cherish the moments we have with the ones we love. Our time upon this earth is not infinite, neither is it actually that long, and we know we are almost always blind to how fast ti… Read More
2020-11-19 21:40
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5Publicity still of Laurence Olivier in Hamlet… Read More
2020-11-12 12:22
Sean Connery was born into a working-class Edinburgh family. And this, perhaps paradoxically, is the key reason why, at least in my view, he was perfect in the roles of kings (e.g. King Arth… Read More
2020-09-26 16:01
There is a story on the internet and the social media that talks about “the purpose of reading.” Nothing too original, nor particularly brilliant, at least in my opinion, but qui… Read More
2020-09-08 16:10
Fed up with the spread of fake news? Well, here are a few survival tips… 1. First and foremost, what is fake news? There are two kinds of fake news: a) stories that aren’… Read More
2020-08-30 06:15
What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description. You are it. ~ Rumi (Gialal al-Din Rumi), Makatib (The Letters) In… Read More
2020-05-09 07:57
Perceval arrives at the Grail Castle, to be greeted by the Fisher King. From a 1330 CE manuscript of Perceval ou Le Conte du Graal by Chrétien de Troyes, BnF Français 12577, fo… Read More
2020-01-16 23:56
Sir Roger Scruton died last Sunday after a six-month battle with cancer. His death is a terrible, grievous loss and a huge blow to the cultural life of the Western world. His intellectual an… Read More
2019-11-25 14:59
November is in its last week, and December is fast approaching bringing with it my beloved cold winter months, which, by the way, is perhaps the main reason why I so much love this time of t… Read More
2019-11-21 00:55
Who said November is a sad month? It actually isn’t so bad. Au contraire. It can be such a beautiful time of the year, at least as long as it’s not raining all day every day! Nov… Read More
2019-11-15 17:49
Detail of victorian stained glass church window in Fringford depicting King David, the authorof the psalms in the Old testament with a hand harpThere are people who master the art of te… Read More
2019-10-09 23:16
October isn’t just a month, it’s a feeling. It’s a state of mind and a celebration of everyday beauty. In fact, there’s no better month of the year than October to en… Read More
2019-09-30 15:59
Charles Deas' The Trapper and his Family (1845) depicts a voyageur and his Native American wife and childrenIt has fairly been said that songs are the language of the hea… Read More
2019-09-07 19:51
This morning, as sometimes happens to all of us, I woke up with a song playing in my head, the typical case in which you ask yourself, “Why the hell is this song playing in my ears? Wh… Read More
2019-08-17 21:35
If I hadn’t read Jack Kerouac’s On the Road—among many other novels set in the U.S.—and seen Peter Fonda’s Easy Rider, I probably wouldn’t have undertaken… Read More
2019-05-15 15:04
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right—especially when one is right. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra To put it with tongue in cheek, we migh… Read More
2019-04-28 19:20
A couple of days ago a good Facebook friend of mine asked me my thoughts on a couple of interviews released by Jaron Lanier. An American computer scientist who is considered by many to be on… Read More
2019-03-31 19:24
One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people. […] In the end, things must be as they are and have always been—the great things remain for the great, the… Read More
2019-01-16 14:30
To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can’t be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. ~ Anne Sexton, “Admonitions to a Special Pe… Read More
2018-12-14 13:45
Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus. (Fast flies meanwhile the irreparable hour) ~ Vergil, Georgicon, Book 3 We should cherish the moments we have with the ones we love. Ou… Read More
2018-08-27 23:11
They say integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching, even when it may work to your disadvantage, and this obviously because wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it… Read More
2018-07-17 23:07
And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil. If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither, And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him… Read More
2018-07-15 22:33
Someone—maybe from an atheistic point of view—once said, “Faith isn’t a virtue, it’s the glorification of voluntary ignorance.” Well, no truer words were… Read More
2018-06-01 14:38
Have you ever enjoyed the smell of linden trees in late spring to early summer? Sweet, heady, totally overwhelming with their aroma, in the Northeast of Italy these majestic trees—also… Read More
2018-05-03 06:03
Rudeness is a contagious behavior that spreads rapidly, and, as we all know, is rampant everywhere nowadays. Edmund Burke once said that, “Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of… Read More
2018-04-03 06:10
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,there is a field. I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass,the world is too full to talk about.Ideas, language, even the… Read More
2018-02-14 08:34
Ash Wednesday and St. Valentine’s Day both occur on the same time this year, and that’s today. Of course “Ash Wednesday has precedence,” says Cardinal Dolan, “a… Read More
2018-01-27 20:04
The whole matter has developed into a national scandal, to the point that even Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) President Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti felt it necessary to weigh in on this… Read More
2017-12-12 00:14
View of Jerusalem (Conrad Grünenberg, 1487)Il fatto è che questa non è una città: questa è la vita di ciascuno di noi, che a volte c’illude e a volte c… Read More
2017-11-23 18:00
"The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" (1914) By Jennie A. BrownscombeStedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden (Netherlands)For us Christians, thanksgiving is an everyday event that begins with a… Read More
2017-11-21 15:41
Henry Holiday (1839 - 1927), "Dante and Beatrice"Walker Art Gallery - Liverpool, UKAs some of you readers know, Beatrice was the love of Dante’s life: she was a real person and the Poe… Read More
2017-11-17 10:15
Sometimes you are tempted to lose patience with someone and to not waste words on people who—according to you, in a given situation and at a particular time—deserve your silence… Read More
2017-11-12 17:30
A song I’ve loved since I was a young boy, “Il ragazzo della via Gluck” (“The Boy from Gluck Street”) is not just a song, it’s a piece of pop music and cu… Read More
2017-11-09 23:18
There are works going on a few dozen meters away from where I live. Looks like they are in the home stretch. Today I found out—thanks to the newly-added sign on the front door—th… Read More
2017-10-24 21:49
Ok, fake news is nothing new, we all know that. But we also know that today the amount of misinformation that is spread on the web is staggering. Bogus stories can reach more people more qui… Read More
2017-09-06 21:02
Not for long will you thirst yet,Burn heart!Promise in the air,From unfamiliar mouths it blows on me,—The great coolness comes…My sun stood hot over me at noon:My greetin… Read More
2017-07-31 22:57
“I think it’s pretty hard to argue that somebody who almost three-quarters of the country thinks is unqualified to be president and has a negative opinion about is tapping into t… Read More
2017-07-17 23:50
Warsaw, Krasiński Square, July 6, 2017“This is the speech Mr. Trump should have given to introduce himself to the world at his Inauguration.” That’s how the Wall Stre… Read More
2017-07-13 08:10
I must confess that I didn't know about this before… I've just come across a very beautiful video about Treviso—the town where I live—and its river Sile (among the longest… Read More
2017-06-03 17:52
Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential hou… Read More
2017-05-20 22:56
I was chatting with a friend of mine the other day about the topicality of Dante’s Divine Comedy. What we both agreed upon was that the first of the three canticles of the poem, Infern… Read More
2017-01-30 15:31
Friday, January 27th was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time for people to both honor those killed under the Nazi regime and prevent future genocide. As every year at this time… Read More
2017-01-24 23:21
This morning I had a chance encounter with an old priest—an 80-something-year-old man—whom I had known when I was in my twenties. At the time, he was a teacher at the Seminary of… Read More
2017-01-23 01:39
Recently a friend wrote in her timeline, “Evidently I've been talking to myself since Christmas. All my FB posts were privacy set to ‘Only me.’” That did automaticall… Read More
2016-11-14 16:55
Dear Social Media Friends,A few notes on my birthday, which occurred just yesterday. First, let me say a huge thank you to all of you that have been kind enough to stop by at my Facebook pag… Read More
2016-11-05 18:12
The Prodigal Son (Orthodox Icon)Yesterday afternoon I attended the funeral of a neighbor—a 80-something-year-old man, and a very kind and good person. I didn’t know the priest wh… Read More
2016-10-30 15:40
Times are tough, I know, but let’s talk about something a bit more cheerful than my normal rants, let’s talk about Facebook, the most popular of all the social media platforms. T… Read More
2016-10-25 00:29
Have you noticed that the Mainstream Media—both in the U.S. and in Europe—is distrusted by growing numbers of people? Have you noticed that the cronyism between the Establishment… Read More
2016-10-11 22:37
‘Saint Augustine writing’; illumination from Augustine’s City of God, 1459 Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris Sometimes we’re tempted to despair… Read More
2016-09-22 06:46
Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Tennessee To some degree, this is what could be defined as a blog-post on demand, in fact it originates from a request by a good friend of mine, wh… Read More
2016-09-16 23:15
Happy Birthday Princess,We get old and get use to each other. We think alike.We read each others minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little… Read More
2016-08-22 12:05
What are your favorite New Testament passages? One of mine is Luke 1:46-55 (The Magnificat). These verses are one of the Marian texts par excellence and one of the most notable prayers in al… Read More
2016-06-07 16:30
It is because of America, its success, its conflicts, and its symbolic importance in the world, that the question raised by Spengler is still with us: the question of Western identity. Take… Read More
2016-06-05 15:09
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice. Sansovinian HallI am pleased to inform the readers—especially those living or visiting the Venice area—that starting from June 2016 my book… Read More
2016-05-16 22:30
After Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected and Simple Patriotism Trumps Ideology, yet another must read by Peggy Noonan, the great speech writer for Ronald Reagan and now a columnist for Th… Read More
2016-05-12 11:32
Angelo Codevilla in The Federalist (definitely a must read):Led by Barack Obama’s Democrats, echoed by the media, backed by big corporations’ muscle, and trailed by Republicans w… Read More
2016-05-11 23:36
Not all men are called to be hermits, but all men need enough silence and solitude in their lives to enable the deep inner voice of their own true self to be heard at least occasionally. Whe… Read More
2016-04-04 21:46
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I wrote this note for a Group at Goodreads.com called “The reasons why you wrote your book or books,” but I think it fits here, too.There is no specific reason why I wrote Blesse… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
~ “LETTERS FROM AMERICA” - by The Metaphysical Peregrine ~ Yesterday finished reading Rob's Blessed Are theContrarians: Diary of a Journey Through Interesting Times. I… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
All right, that’s it, I’m done with this job. My new book is out just in time for Christmas. Here is the Preface to Blessed Are the Contrarians: Diary of a Journey Through Inte… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Hold tight, dear readers, what this note is all about is nothing less than the Infinite. Tough topic, I know (and how could it be otherwise?), but it’s time, if not past time, because… Read More
2016-03-01 00:22
How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn’t have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopped describing the sky, simp… Read More
2016-02-26 01:19
It has happened. What was thought to be impossible has now come to reality. After Donald Trump’s third-in-a-row victory in the Nevada caucuses Tuesday, the confident predictions about… Read More
2016-02-22 23:10
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means. ~ Umberto Eco, The Name of the… Read More
2016-02-14 20:39
Are you dismayed by Trumpism? Well, you definitely are in good company. But you’d better read this WSJ Saturday essay by Charles Murray before you jump to hasty conclusions, because Tr… Read More
2015-12-10 15:48
Rhine-gold! Rhine-gold! / guileless gold! / O would that thy treasure / were glittering yet in the deep! / Tender and true ’tis but in the waters: / false and base are all who revel ab… Read More
2015-11-28 10:44
The Sainte Baume (click to enlarge)Photo courtesy of BACKYARDPROVENCELast night while attending a conference on medieval studies, I heard the speaker touching on a subject I happen to… Read More
2015-11-24 23:00
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever yo… Read More
2015-11-16 00:17
The story is set in a dystopian future in which humans have built walls and barricades to protect themselves from a world that has become a very dangerous place… A centuries-old wall… Read More
2015-11-10 19:40
This book was definitely worth my time and I am glad to have read it! Not that I’m a big reader of the fantasy fiction genre—even though perhaps Blood and Soul, by Allen G. Bagby… Read More
2015-11-08 19:15
In an Author’s note at the end of the book, Peter Meredith tells us that A Perfect America was inspired by two things. The first is the 2012 election—“a bit of a shock to m… Read More
2015-11-07 08:54
At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourse… Read More
2015-11-05 16:48
Yet another great addition to The Bible Teacher’s Guide series by Gregory Brown. This time it’s the book of the Book of Nehemiah’s turn to be analyzed and studied in depth… Read More
2015-10-26 15:25
Pieve di Sant'Andrea di BigonzoVittorio Veneto (TV)It has been a long time since I wanted to visit the church just outside the old town of Serravalle, now part of the city of Vittorio Veneto… Read More
2015-10-18 23:26
It has been said that a book is not complete until it has been read. I would interpret that statement as a book is not complete until it has met its target audience, that is those to whom th… Read More
Subscribe to Wind Rose Hotel
Get updates delivered right to your inbox!