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 correctness. Show all posts

Showing posts with label political correctness. Show all posts

Monday, January 27, 2020

Political Correctness And Sex: Two Stories

I haven’t been feeling well these past few days, and it’s put a crimp into my emissions here. However, one thing that’s guaranteed to r...

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Emotional Incontinence

I forget where I first saw the above phrase, but it strikes me as immensely useful. It concisely describes one of the most important ma...

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

I Thought I Was Done For Today...

...but a piece linked at Doug Ross’s site has raised my hackles: When I come across some web site or material that starts to ge...

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Political Correctness: A Tirade

“Words are weapons. Words are tools. Define or be defined! ” – Michael Emerling “What is necessary is to rectify names.” — Confu...

Friday, October 28, 2016

Just How Long Have I Been Saying This?

It’s a disheartening thing when any Presidential candidate excommunicates half the country from the human equation. That’s basically wh...

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Conservative Devolution

My principal gift is the detection of patterns. I value that attribute in others as well. When it manifests itself, I immediately take ...

Thursday, August 4, 2016

More Truth Than The Left Can Abide

Ace has been on fire lately: At some point, politeness seems to just be a polite euphemism for hectoring, harassing speech contr...

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

The vote heard 'round the world

First "Brexit," then Trump. If both our nations pushed back against the Globalists in the same year, that'd be some Hope ...

Thursday, February 11, 2016

No Divergences Allowed

Regular Gentle Readers of Liberty’s Torch already know that I’m an “indie writer” of various kinds of fiction. That is, I publish my ...

Friday, October 16, 2015

When The Data Matter Part 2: “Bubbles”

Among the greatest ironies of contemporary political discourse is the tendency among so many on the Left to insulate themselves against...

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Extremely Quickies: “Sad Puppies,” The Denouement

Milo Yiannopoulos has the story: At the seventy-third annual Worldcon science fiction convention on Saturday night, social justi...

“Where Do Nazis Come From:” Further Thoughts

First, for all those correspondents who expressed incredulity at the central thesis of yesterday’s short story: Yes, I meant it. Every...

Friday, August 21, 2015

Emotional Inoculation: A Guest Column by Mark Clausen

[Mark, a longtime reader of Liberty’s Torch, emailed me this yesterday. I found it insightful and illuminating. Enjoy! -- FWP ] ...

Friday, June 5, 2015

Oops, they did it again...(a CNN "interviewer," that is)

If you want to talk about navigating interviews in hostile territory "like a champ" then look no further than Pamela Geller - espe...

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Quickies: The Saddest Of All Puppy-Like Lifeforms

...would be the frustrated would-be panjandrums of the video-gaming press: Reviews from professional video game journalists play...

Friday, April 10, 2015

Even Sadder Puppies: An Insider Cops To The Scam

Larry Correia, the author of the popular Monster Hunter series, is the quintessence of the “outsider” to the science fiction / fantasy...

Monday, November 17, 2014

Rants From Runts, Pants That Punt, and Cant From...Oh, Never Mind

If you’ve been waiting for the: Social Justice Warriors Professionally Aggrieved Feminists (i.e., the angry ugly girls) “glittery hoo-hah” ...

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