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)

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

You Don't Know What You've Got 'Til It's Gone

Recognize the lyrics? Day 4 without Internet. I’m composing this offline, and will be posting later today – whether on a ...

Monday, September 17, 2018

Balm For Troubled Souls

Just enjoy. God bless you, Will. Wherever you are, I hope you're well and happy.

How I Got Where I Am - Update

A non-conforming, semi-professional iconoclast. It took a long time. Most of my life, I desperately wanted to fit in. I was from a working...

Meandering Through Monday

A lot of people do, you know. Why should the Curmudgeon Emeritus to the World Wide Web be left out? 1. #YeahSuuure They tried...

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Faith And The Familiar: A Sunday Rumination

Regular attendance at Mass confers a number of benefits on the communicant. Yes, the Church says it’s obligatory to be there on Sunday ...

Modern-Day Slavery

We technically no longer have legal slavery in this country. Technically. Because, for too many people, their employment is contingent o...

Insufferable, untouchable, and smug.

These monopolists, those untouchable Deep Staters, that is. If we look at the economy as a whole, we find it is dominated by monopolies and...

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Perspective

Sometimes it takes a long time to get the import of what a wise elder was saying. It’s been observed, by many other commentators,...

Missing The Dynamic

Jack Dorsey admits Twitter has a problem: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that the social media giant’s staffers who have right...

Report from the Carolinas on Florence

Except for the coast, and some freak accidents, it's been calm and not all that bad. Even for a Cat 1 hurricane, the amount of storm sur...

Deals With The Devil

Sarah Hoyt has a plaintive piece today about those who advise us to “go along to get along:” [T]he deals with the devil people m...

Let’s all OD on the breaking “humanitarian disaster” bullshit.

Sorry for the bad language but there is no better word in the English language to express that particular combo of lie, stupidity, manipulat...

Friday, September 14, 2018

Facebook Blocked the Original Post at the Link

Let's see if this gets it through the Censorship Filter.

They Call Me Mad, But I Am Not Mad Dept.

Several other bloggers have noted the following emission from Adam Schiff (D, CA): “There was one issue we were not allowed to ...

Every last one.

Every violent death in Syria is the fault of the US and its allies. The narrative that there is a bad guy who that same alliance needs to p...

Trust me. I work for the government.

On global warming: NOAA’s research supposedly contradicted claims of a pause in global warming since 1998, hence the name “Pausebuster Pape...

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Fools

According to the late Barbara Tuchman, folly – the course followed by a fool – consists in knowing better but nevertheless doing worse...

Just How Many Illegal Aliens are There in This Country?

The agreement on the number 12 million may be wrong - DELIBERATELY wrong. Look at the graph below: Ask yourself - it it LIKELY that t...

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

The Day After 9/11

We sometimes talk about the day before - I have referred to myself as a 9/10 Democrat. That's someone who had been a Democrat from famil...

The Satan Trick

I forget who originated this notion, but it’s been said for many years that the Devil’s greatest achievement was convincing so many hum...

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