Liberty's Torch

     On Friday, November 29, my science fiction novel Which Art In Hope:      ...will be free of charge at Amazon for the day.      T...

     Someone clever – probably not officially an associate of the Trump for President campaign – has made a terrific commercial for his re-e...

     If you’ve ever taken an interest in what was once called “The Great War” – it’s unlikely you have, as very few persons seem to know any...

     As I write in English (surprise, surprise), I frequently find myself grappling with one or more ambiguities built into that language. T...

The US is at the 11th hour, one hour till midnight, as the wealth inequality imbalance will correct itself by the eruption of protests on t...

Many of the old-style ones don't work all that well today: Conservative - does this mean small, limited government? Balanced budget? ...

     It has become ever more frequent an experience for me to start on an essay, get a few hundred words into it, and back away, muttering t...

Where to start? I really cannot believe that this guy was unopposed by a GOP candidate. Sex with a 17-year-old - when he was in his late...

     The contemporary Left is all about targeting: what groups it can enlist in its Cause, and what groups it can indict as enemies to be a...

     No, I’m not thinking of Weird Tales, which, as far as I know, has ceased publication. I’m thinking of really strange stuff: the sort ...

     One of the sticking points between ideological libertarians and American conservatives who have largely embraced what was once called c...

     I was powerfully struck by this evisceration of California’s anti-wildfires posturing and similar expressions of left-liberal “do-good...

...you might want to read this story, about a Chinese activist living in NYC.  She has made documentaries about the One Child policy and oth...

And, by Women-Driven, I mean - they are using a very EMOTIONAL appeal to their base. That's it; they are all about the Id - that part of...

     I just saw something pregnant with “twins from two fathers:” implications for mental missteps of two divergent kinds. It’s got me unset...

     I’ve written so many times about the importance of a sound theme to a good story – a theme expressed by the motivations, decisions, and...

     Sometimes another commentator says it so well that all I can do is point and clap:      Last week in a dinner speech at the Mayflower...

And, I'm not the only one.  One of the most annoying things about the TDS thing is that the opposition is so energetic! Always eager to ...

In one year, the 2020 election will be held. It won't be sufficient to just vote. You won't have done enough if you work for a c...

     Imagine the following conversation: Charitable Canvasser: Give me money. FWP: Why? CC: I need it. FWP: And why should that conc...