Liberty's Torch

(a.k.a. Bastion Of Liberty)

"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy,
And the dogs that bark revolution.
Drunk with talk, liars and believers.
I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies!"
(Robinson Jeffers)

Showing posts with label political dynamics. Show all posts

Showing posts with label political dynamics. Show all posts

Thursday, November 5, 2026

The Bloodbath

Good morning, Gentle Reader. Happy Guy Fawkes’ Day. Do you feel like burning someone in effigy? I do. Needless to say, the result...

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

The Political Problem, Distilled To Its Essence

A lot of people are justifiably disgusted with the total nonperformance of the Republican Party since President Trump returned to the ...

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

A Monitory Message For America

If you enjoy historical fiction, you may already be familiar with the work of Taylor Caldwell. Her great historical novels are among t...

Thursday, August 20, 2026

Influencers, Those They Influence, And Those Who Influence Them

I have to run off to a dentist’s appointment in a little while, so this will be a quickie. We speak of “influencers” today as if opinio...

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Unthinkable Or Inevitable?

After the parliamentary systems piece appeared, I got an inquiry from a reader about religious affiliations among political parties. H...

Monday, July 27, 2026

A Word About Parliamentary Systems

There aren’t many polities structured as is the United States. Most other First World nations have parliamentary systems, which vary fr...

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

The Unwelcome Cup

Once in a great while, a politician tells us something significant by doing nothing: more specifically, by not reaching for a seeming p...

Friday, June 5, 2026

An Intellectual's Duty

[This piece first appeared at Eternity Road on March 12, 2008. -- FWP ] There aren't many persons who, if asked whether s...

Thursday, June 4, 2026

Berserk, Or Merely Bookless?

[The following first appeared at Eternity Road on February 25, 2008 – FWP. ] Your Curmudgeon strongly disapproves of psycholo...

Friday, May 29, 2026

Elections, Mathematics, And The Woke

I’m a long-time admirer of Virginia State Assemblyman Nick Freitas. He exemplifies something the rest of the Republican Party lacks: co...

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Creating Your Own Problems

Good morning, Gentle Reader. Happy Vernal Equinox (traditional). Wherever you are in this blessed land, I hope you’ll enjoy beautiful s...

Thursday, March 12, 2026

The Dynamics Of Disgust

[I’m a bit snowed under just now, so have a reprint of a piece from the old Palace of Reason. It appeared there on June 7, 2002 – FWP ...

Thursday, February 12, 2026

“Self-Government”

Just recently, I stumbled upon this: If those percentages still hold, then once again we’re in the mystifying position where an...

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

The Pressure

The technophiles and space-travel enthusiasts are moderately agog that Elon Musk has shifted his focus from colonizing Mars to colonizi...

Thursday, February 5, 2026

The Epstein Files

I haven’t read them. I don’t intend to. I don’t need more misery or darkness, thanks. But the following caught and held my attention: ...

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